
How to Get Rid of Cucumber Beetles in the Garden
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I find catching these cucumber beetles easy. I usually always find them in the male flowers of my squash plants. Of the 10 I have caught in the last couple of days, 7 were in the squash flowers in the front of the house. Three were in the backyard on squash leaves, which did not have any flowers. To catch them I use eye tweezers on the flowers and just my fingers on the leaves.
Why do I have Cucumber Beetles on my roses? How do I get rid of them? They're living in my roses and eating the roses. Thanks!
Yes, the adults can cause minor damage to rose petals. Choose a pesticide that has a low impact on natural enemies, such as lady beetles and pollinators. Neem is a plant based pesticide that prevents insects from feeding, which eventually kills them. Pyrethrins have no residual and treatments need to come in contact with the beetles to be effective. Finally, there are broad-spectrum pesticides (permethrin, bifenthrin, lambda-cyhalothrin and carbaryl) but we don’t use them since they kill beneficial insects, too.
Kathy,
The hard orange worms inside the roots/stems of your plants sound like wireworms. There are possibly beneficial nematodes available.. ..or maybe have chickens there to scratch for a while.
They are small and appear to eat thru the skin.
So I’ve seen on different gardening pages and I can’t find it again now I am mixture of hot peppers garlic and maybe a touch and dish soap. Cannot harm any crops? Also will that help deter most things?
Newly transplanted cucumbers fall over dead. On digging down, I find a very hard orange worm burrowed into the stem, underground. What is this pest and how todo I control? Is there something I can drench the soil with?
they like petunia flowers also , the flower.
They have been extremely detrimental to my Dahlias the last two summer here in Western PA
I have them all over my hemp plants ,and what's the fastest way to get them off
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