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<blockquote data-quote="WTM" data-source="post: 4238208" data-attributes="member: 6230"><p>which type of insects are you having trouble with? there basically 2 types that affect cucibers, the squash bug and the vine borer?b squash bugs lay copper colored eggs on the leaves and suck the juices from the leaves and stems. no known organic insecticide will kill them. the way i control them is to scrape the eggs from the leaves and in the evening i pick the bugs from the plants. i also lay a piece of 2x4 beside the plants and check when the sun is high. usually they are under the board and i kill them. if you are infested sevin or worry free will control them.</p><p></p><p>vine borers are moths they lay a single copper egg at the root stem. spraying the root stemm with neem oil or applying Btk will usually do the trick. you can also try screen or weed cloth wrapp arond the stem but if they are in the ground then it wont do any good. the best thing that i have found to prevent these nasties is to rotate my squash rows every year. if the larvae cant find a plant when they emerge they will usually die. </p><p></p><p>another thing i usually do that seems to help is much the plants heavily with wheat straw.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WTM, post: 4238208, member: 6230"] which type of insects are you having trouble with? there basically 2 types that affect cucibers, the squash bug and the vine borer?b squash bugs lay copper colored eggs on the leaves and suck the juices from the leaves and stems. no known organic insecticide will kill them. the way i control them is to scrape the eggs from the leaves and in the evening i pick the bugs from the plants. i also lay a piece of 2x4 beside the plants and check when the sun is high. usually they are under the board and i kill them. if you are infested sevin or worry free will control them. vine borers are moths they lay a single copper egg at the root stem. spraying the root stemm with neem oil or applying Btk will usually do the trick. you can also try screen or weed cloth wrapp arond the stem but if they are in the ground then it wont do any good. the best thing that i have found to prevent these nasties is to rotate my squash rows every year. if the larvae cant find a plant when they emerge they will usually die. another thing i usually do that seems to help is much the plants heavily with wheat straw. [/QUOTE]
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