Serratia info

Here is a link to my local extension's information on this disease where I copied the info from.  It is a form of yellow vine, spread by squash bugs (sort of the same way malaria is spread my mosquitoes). 

Plucking them off in the morning (as prevoiusly suggested) is the best method to fight them, epecially if you only have a few plants growing. It may seem like a large undetaking beacuse of the amount of stem and leaves present, but is the safest and most effective.  You have to get rid of the inscets early in the season - monitor daisly for them!  Once they start traveling from plant to plant is when the damage is seen.

Any chemicals will probably kill or hurt beneficial inscets, as well as possibly clog pores on the leaves, which the plant needs to thrive.  Besides, who wants to spray toxic chemicals on their babies?

http://www.extension.org/pages/Add_Yellow_Vine_to_the_Long_List_of_Pumpkin_Diseases

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