Re: Need help with squash bugs
- Subject: Re: Need help with squash bugs
- From: B* T* <b*@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 20:48:33 -0600
Thanks everyone for their replies. all good information that I'm going to
stash in my library of Squash Bug Death!
Brian
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:22 PM, betty shannon <bettyshannon2@yahoo.com>wrote:
> 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
> bettyshannon2@yahoo.com
> ________________________________
> 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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