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Re: white bugs on my squashes, please help

Hi Trina,
It definitely sounds as though you have Squash, Harlequin or Stink bugs.
Your best defense is to hand pick the bugs and their egg masses, I also
read that you shouldn't mulch squash plants and that you should sprinkle
diatomaceous earth around the base of the plants. Hope this helps and
good luck!
Richard (zone 6)
Brooklyn, NY
 ----------
From: trina & bill
To: Multiple recipients of list SQFT
Subject: Re: white bugs on my squashes, please help
Date: Tuesday, April 22, 1997 6:47PM


Hi Diana and Joyce and all,

I'm new here, too, and also been lurking. Ironiclaly, I also have a
toddler
and
 a new
baby :)

Anyway, last year and the year before that, too, my squashes were
attacked
by
 these sort
of greyish brown boxy type beetles. Their bodies reminded me of little
armored
 tanks.

They laid their eggs on the undersides of my squash plant leaves in osrt
of
a
 teardrop
or triangular formation. When they hatched, there were about 20-30 in
each
 "litter" and
they grew to be about 1/2" long. They weren't deterred by the organic
pest
 sprays, and
there were far too mny of them to pick off each day.

The effect they had on my plants was kind of drooping effect. They
seemed
to
 like the
flowers best, but were OK with the fruit, too :(  I'm sure I'll get them
again
 this
year.

Does anyone know what I am talking about? If so, how best hould I deal
with
 them?

Thanks,

Trina Wallace
 --
Snowdrift Farm Soaps
http://www.biddeford.com/~twallace
Between zones 4 and 5 in mid-coast Maine

"I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent." -Ashleigh
Brilliant


Diana Mallea wrote:
>
> Joyce,
> I don't know what they are but I had them last year and they destroyed
> all my plants.  I'd also like to know what they are.
> diana
>
> >----------
> >From:  Joyce Gerber[SMTP:jgerber@TERMINUS.COM]
> >Sent:  April 22, 1997 9:22 AM
> >To:    Multiple recipients of list SQFT
> >Subject:       white bugs on my squashes, please help-

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