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Key West, FL

Ok, I know there have been a few of these threads... but today I found one of my spotted "friends" crawling on the side of my hoophouse. I smooshed him immediately but man, I've never heard of cuke beetles in april!

4/22/2005 2:02:05 AM

Hilpoltstein, Bavaria, Germany

I've never seen one... lol :-)

4/22/2005 5:03:39 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Martin Open the box sent by UPS in the garden area...My Friend...:) It has 1/2 a dozen 801.5's in it...

4/22/2005 9:11:16 AM

No Place Special

roflol!!!!!!!

4/22/2005 9:59:20 AM

Eugene,OR

I saw one in February crawling around on a fava bean stalk!

4/22/2005 10:02:10 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Oh I forgot to add. You may need to turn the box upside down, and shake it real good as they are way towards the bottom.

4/22/2005 10:30:24 AM

Indiana

I saw some last year this time.

Tom

4/22/2005 2:26:17 PM

Massillon, Ohio

martin, do you have bugs and diseases we dont have ?? because i doubt you are home free, or are you?

4/22/2005 2:47:12 PM

Hilpoltstein, Bavaria, Germany

roflol! Good one, Shannon!!! I will make sure to forward the package to Owen as soon as it gets here. However, I will have to tell him these are 805s instead of 801.5s. LOL

Christy, I don't think we have pests or diseases (at least none that occur on pumpkin plants) that you don't have.
Our main problem is powdery mildew from late August on. Some years there are minor problems with snails, slugs, aphids or spider mites but that's it.

But hey, don't we already have enough problems with our German weather? No need for cuke beetles to ruin the season! LOL

4/22/2005 4:25:34 PM

Kansas City

I had a dozen or so of what looked like cucumber beetles on my asparagus last week. I squashed all I found, and dusted with Sevin and have only found one since then...he got squished too!

4/22/2005 5:44:23 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

Never seen A cucumber beetle but I've got the oddest strain of yellow Ladybugs you've ever seen...some of the dots on the more wierd ones almost look like they have stripes instead of dots...

4/22/2005 9:23:06 PM

C N Y

they are about the same size as Ladybugs...they are a yellow/green color, the Spotted cuke beetles...

4/22/2005 9:51:01 PM

Knopp, Germany

keep em martin!

4/23/2005 12:55:42 AM

Canada

Cuke beetles are "retarded" last year on any given day "since the male flowers appeared" I could go out to the patch and find 20-30 cuke beetles mateing all over the plants i tried everything till I finally gave up ( when plants turned yellow and died) hopefully this year they dont show up LOL funny thing is, my father grows AG'S as well and hes only an 5 minute drive from my house and he only saw 2-3 all year, everytime i was over there I never saw one, Maybe its due to my backyard is more bushy and covered in then his. donno

Dave

4/23/2005 1:01:44 AM

Montoursville, PA

I might get challenged on this but I figure ten returning to ground is a thousand chewing on your roots just about now. They likely do more damage chewing than spreading about the milldews. Milldew transportation is their main above ground task in nature.

Secondly they seem to colonize. Why not. That patch of your's has lots of flower pollen. They cycle two weeks fattening up on pollen and then they return to soil to lay eggs.

Those eggs are hatching right now. Guess what is getting eaten?

Much as I hate to use the stuff Merit will do them in if you make contact immediately. Some will still surface and you can do two things. One Neem Oil will get them above ground. Two pull all flowers you do not need. They will not have their food chain, in your patch. That will help and makes sense. As soon as you are safely finished with the flowers, both male and female, get rid, of them. Bag them. Thrown, on a pile somewhere, is just a relocated diner.

4/23/2005 6:52:53 AM