Re: Need help with squash bugs

Triazicide. aka Gamma-Cyhalothrin .very effective in my experience. Concentrate on stem bases and vines. I mean drench them. I go light on the leaves since I have seen it burn them when over 95F. I also use sevin more heavily on leaves. It wipes out cuc bugs, but doesn't touch squash bugs. I use separate sprayers too. if you can control them well to july 15th, I have found you are usually home free.
I stopped growing ag's 10 years ago..squash bugs killed all my plants every year. I ahd thought it was fusarium wilt, but by accident I found it was yellow vine disease spread by early season squash bugs. 2 years ago someone give me some pot bound AGs and I ste them out in my old AG plots just for the heck of it. It was june 25th, very late, but they all grew and NO WILTED VINES! even got a 300 pounder!, So then the next year I thought I was good to go and planted May first and most of them died....after some reasearch I came across yellow vine disease. the symptom matched and it seems that they are transmitted early in the season by squash bugs..so this year I planted june 1st...with triacide spray and sevin. None died and I got a 400 pounder!
So my plan for 2010 is to get back in the competitive ag world. start indoors late april and transplant in early may into small greenhouses and then a small screenhouse. Spray diligently, tracide and sevin. It seems if you get the first squash bugs that have the disease, they don't lay eggs and thus you can break the cycle. I am also going to have some trap plants..they will be drenched with spray and unprotected by screen ...they will attract all the bugs and they will be killed by the spray...the trap plants will be uprooted and burnt. with any luck I will be back! 

John
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Taylor" <brian8t@gmail.com> 
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:56 PM
Subject: Need help with squash bugs
Thought I'd throw out a subject that we might talk about in the off season. 
Squash bugs.  They are my nemesis.  Made me pull all my plants this past
year in total disgust and frustration.  I used all those chemicals from
Lowe's & Home Depot.  these bugs laugh at them.  They drink ortho max like
its water.  I'm wondering if any one knows of the "good stuff".  Chemicals
that you need a license to get.  I really need to annihilate them.  I'm in
the Mid-South, just outside Memphis TN. Maybe I should fence in the garden 
and let 4 or 5 chickens loose in there!  Do they eat them?

Thanks so much,
Brian T.

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