Your carefully nurtured cucumber plants are suddenly wilting despite all your best efforts. Or maybe it's your squash, melon or pumpkin plants that are affected. Perhaps you see a bug you don't ...

Signs of cucumber beetle activity include chewed leaves, holes, dimples, and scars on fruits. Cucumber beetles transmit bacterial wilt and cucumber mosaic virus, which cause plant death. Cucumber ...

Gardeners, beware! With the onset of warm days, there is a ravenous pest than can move rapidly onto its favored plants, curcurbits or melons (especially honeydew, crenshaw and casaba), and begin ...

Today’s topic is directly associated with last week's discussion regarding the management of insect populations and is the beginning of a three-part series where we will review a few of the most ...

John in Sterling, Virginia, writes: “Arrgghh! I got cucumber beetles in my garden! Would a vegetable soap prevent these beetles from attacking my cucumbers?” No, John. Washing down plant leaves with ...

As the popularity of organic produce increases with consumers, growers need more options to manage pests naturally. Two researchers have investigated options for reducing the presence of cucumber ...

Q:I hope you can help me. Last year, we had a major invasion of spotted cucumber beetles. I began with my usual routine with pests: hand-picking and dropping them into a pan of soapy water. Soon I was ...

Insecticides labeled to control cucumber beetles in home gardens, include insecticidal soap, Sevin (carbaryl), permethrin, and pyrethrins. Zucchini and blue Hubbard squash are especially attractive to ...

Many insects plague the vegetable gardener, but few are as lethal as the squash bug and the cucumber beetle. Plants may die from the squash bugs' continual feeding or from the bacterial wilt that ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Cantaloupe growers who walk their fields searching for two crop-damaging insects can do just as good a job if they let the pests come to them. A three-year study by Purdue ...

Now that fall is waning into winter, it is time for many of us to reflect on our garden successes and failures. I often find that I learn more from my garden failures and battles than I do from my ...

FRANKFORT, KY—As the popularity of organic produce increases with consumers, growers need more options to manage pests naturally. John D. Sedlacek and Gary R. Cline (retired) of the Land Grant Program ...