Re: Cucumber beetles
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: Cucumber beetles
- From: s*@aristotle.net (J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey)
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:12:12 -0700 (MST)
Rick squishes them.
>> Those green lady bugs are probably Cucumber beetles (don't know the
>> scientific name). Light green with black dots. Yes, they will eat the
>> petals.
Mark drops them into soapy water.
>>I rather get them that way, because Sevin is EXTREMELY TOXIC to Bees.
Me, I squish them and smear their ruined carcasses on the plant stems as a
warning to others of their ilk. If there were pikes tiny enough, I'd pinch
off the beetles' little heads and post them around the rhizomes.
They ate up my bean plants this summer, leaving - get this - an adjacent
stand of cucumbers completely untouched.
celia
storey@aristotle.net
Little Rock
