How do you control squash bugs in your garden?
Every year I plant squash and every year the squash bugs, dark brown to gray in color, kill the plants. I rotate the plants in the garden but they find them anyway. How can I control these things?
4 Responses to “How do you control squash bugs in your garden?”
The squash bugs lay their eggs in the ground near the stem. Pile straw up around the base of the plant and keep it covered all season by adding more. This works for potato beetles too.
Sevin dust is the best.
Squash bugs get mine as well and makes them look terrible but I still get a good yeild of squash
I hate those little bugs. Just when everything is looking great-zap, those pesky bugs crop up. Here is the best info I have seen on it.
Use high pressure when applying liquid insecticides to ensure penetration of the dense plant foliage and thorough coverage to the nymphs which often are on the undersides of leaves. Using a duster will also work. Subsequent treatments are usually required due to the continual presence of egglaying squash bugs. Carbaryl (Sevin) and permethrin (Hi-Yield Garden, Pet & Livestock Dust, Ortho Bug-B-Gon Multi-Purpose Garden Dust, Green Thumb Multipurpose Garden and Pet Dust)
It is especially critical to reduce the overwintering population of squash bugs by working the soil and/or removing foliage and fruit immediately after harvest. This deprives nymphs of the necessary food source to complete their development. Also, recently formed adults are denied a food source with which to build up the sufficient amounts of body food reserves required to see them through winter.
Best of luck,
Julia
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