Re: Need help with squash bugs
- Subject: Re: Need help with squash bugs
- From: b* s* <b*@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:22:13 -0800 (PST)
David perhaps you can share this with the group after checking it out
yourself. I am from Arizona and we have some awful bugs and pests that you do
not have in the north or northeast or northwest for that matter.
Have you
ever used diatomaceous earth (DE for short) in your gardens?? I have
used it
and it will even kill scorpions. It is nicknamed cutter as the bugs
track it
in to the nest or injest it and it simply dehydrates the bug and 'cuts'
it
into microscopic pieces. There is no insecticide that can kill a scorpion
unless you can drench it and then sometimes that does not work as they can
hold
their breath for up to 2 weeks! You can check all this online to be
true. I
have used DE for roach, ant, spider, tick, flea and all other bug
control you
could imagine. It is a very fine white powder.
It has
various uses including pool filters and even larvicides in animals. It
will
not hurt a human either if injested. Totally natural and actually I found
it
added to the earth. I used it here in Maine against an infestation of fleas
that the dogs brought in from the woods. We put it on the carpet and vacuumed
it up 3 days later. I have cats and birds and livestock and have found it
completely safe. You sprinkle it around and the bugs fly and lite on it or
crawl through it. You could put it on the plants and it will not harm them.
It
rinses off with water. I get it in large bags at the local feed stores.
Very
inexpensive and totally safe. You can still be considered organic with
it too I
believe.
Just my two cents worth.
Envelope for pumpkin seeds is
in the mail. I emailed you last week.
Betty Shannon
Forget Political
Correctness!!! Be who you say you are... and say what you feel
... because
those that matter, don't mind ... and those that mind, don't matter!
602-432-1861
www.bettysfinishingtouches.com
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From: "dbhaskaran@aol.com"
<dbhaskaran@aol.com>
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Sent: Tue, December 7, 2010 8:12:15
PM
Subject: Re: Need help with squash bugs
I agree with John..I have used
Triazicide for years...but last year I used a
systemic which was better.
I
didn't see many of the cuke beetles, aphids, or squash bugs untill later in
the season.
Bayer Shrub and Tree! You can also get one for veggies...but not
sure I'd do
that one...maybe potatos.
Imaclorida(sp) is the chemical at
1.47%...the veggie one is much less.
Drench this on your stump and bugs are
gone for at least a month regardless
of rain!
I was applying every 2 weeks.
David Bhaskaran
Rochester, MN.
-----Original Message-----
From:
Sandusky Valley <buckeye5@bright.net>
To: pumpkins <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent:
Tue, Dec 7, 2010 6:18 pm
Subject: Re: Need help with squash bugs
Triazicide.
aka Gamma-Cyhalothrin .very effective in my experience.
oncentrate on stem
bases and vines. I mean drench them. I go light on the
eaves since I have
seen it burn them when over 95F. I also use sevin more
eavily on leaves. It
wipes out cuc bugs, but doesn't touch squash bugs. I
se separate sprayers too.
if you can control them well to july 15th, I have
ound you are usually home
free.
I stopped growing ag's 10 years ago..squash bugs killed all my plants
every
ear. I ahd thought it was fusarium wilt, but by accident I found it was
ellow vine disease spread by early season squash bugs. 2 years ago someone
ive
me some pot bound AGs and I ste them out in my old AG plots just for
he heck
of it. It was june 25th, very late, but they all grew and NO WILTED
INES!
even got a 300 pounder!, So then the next year I thought I was good
o go and
planted May first and most of them died....after some reasearch I
ame across
yellow vine disease. the symptom matched and it seems that they
re transmitted
early in the season by squash bugs..so this year I planted
une 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
ndoors late april and
transplant in early may into small greenhouses and
hen a small screenhouse.
Spray diligently, tracide and sevin. It seems if
ou get the first squash bugs
that have the disease, they don't lay eggs and
hus you can break the cycle. I
am also going to have some trap plants..they
ill be drenched with spray and
unprotected by screen ...they will attract
ll the bugs and they will be killed
by the spray...the trap plants will be
prooted and burnt. with any luck I will
be back!
John
----- Original Message -----
rom: "Brian Taylor"
<brian8t@gmail.com>
o: <pumpkins@hort.net>
ent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010
5:56 PM
ubject: 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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