Northern IL,CucumberBeatleAlert!!!!!!

Anyone close to my area
   I noticed a couple of Cucumber Beetles while in the patch last night so I decided I would get up early this mourning and hit the patch with some Warrior T and some Fungicide. Swarms of Cucumber Beetles came in overnight like a swarm of hungry Locusts! There were thousands of them everywhere, eating everything - beans, pumpkins, cucumbers, watermelon, Okra, Elderberry, and even my Grape vine leafs!  If I had waited till this evening when I got home from work the damage would have been devastating. I went to town with the sprayer.

I thought this might be isolated to my yard. It has been two weeks since I last sprayed.  I got to work which is about 6 miles away and discovered hundreds of dead cucumber beatles that were killed by an outside light during the night.

P.S. - The moral is,   If you see one Cucumber Beetle --PANIC  !!!!!!!!!

Ray S.
P.B. -8 ,000 dead Cucumber Beatles

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