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Montoursville, PA

Montoursville, PA

IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA!!!
They are the same unsavory suckers they were last year. They need to meet their maker quickly.

Take such action as you deem important. They are the number one transmitters, of the milldew spore. Milldew alert!!!!
I am starting preventive approach immediately.

6/2/2005 12:22:46 PM

Joliet, IL

good man doc,
i will begin preventative maintenance soon here in Illinois too because they should be here any day as well. i have not found any in my male flowers on my early plant when i prune them, and i haven't seen any while working in the patch. but they will be here any day now and i will also post there arrival.
thanks,
shazzy

6/2/2005 9:15:34 PM

Montoursville, PA

Neem Oil got the little buggers. They look nice on their backs moving their legs slowly. :)

6/2/2005 9:32:35 PM

Hudsonville, Michigan ([email protected])

Yep, got 'em here in West Michigan on May 31st. 14 days earlier than last year's first wave...perhaps due to drier May conditions here than last year...
Frank

6/2/2005 9:56:08 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Can someone describe what the little fellows look like?

6/3/2005 7:01:56 AM

Hudsonville, Michigan ([email protected])

Wayne: They're small (1/8 to 3/16 in long), yellow and have black stripes. A variant is yellow with black spots.
Hey Doc, is that right about them being vectors for mildew? I knew they contributed to WMV and bacterial wilt, but I thought mildew was airborne...

6/3/2005 7:36:32 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

If you have them and its yellow they are attracted to it. You will often see the little &*%$#*** shacked up in the male flowers having small parties with their friends.

6/3/2005 7:41:10 AM

Owensboro, Ky.

I got em...in a major way. Just trimmed males and found 15 or 20 in each of about 10 flowers. Newer plants have holes in leaves. Sprayed and will hope for the best. Thanks for the help. Peace Wayne
Any long term effects of the holes in the leaves.

6/3/2005 9:05:27 AM

Ontario, Canada.

Doc, they get here a bit later than your PA location. I will erect a watch tower for the bastards with search lights if need be. Hot and dry is just what the buggers like too. It could be a bad year for them.

6/3/2005 9:42:31 AM

Hudsonville, Michigan ([email protected])

Trimming unneeded males is a great practice for minimizing cuke beetles in your patch.

6/3/2005 10:04:11 AM

Hayes, Virginia

Doc so far so good here.
Neem oil is ready to go.

6/3/2005 1:01:45 PM

[email protected]

Showed up in NE Ohio yesterday with a vengeance! Hated to do it..... but Sevin sent them packing! :)

6/3/2005 2:13:04 PM

Montoursville, PA

Bag those removed flowers. Tossing on the compost pile gives them the best place in town, to lay eggs, for next year.

Reliable sources indicate that the do and will track all kinds, of fungal pathegons, here and there. To me that means, on anything they crawl about. They came from the soil. The spore are in your soil too.

Reliable sources specifically say that those who call them
ba#@***s really causes them, to literally swarm, to where such vengence was uttered. Sons of **%##}s is OK. They don't know that term yet.

6/3/2005 2:22:27 PM

C N Y

doc---may the "source" be with you!
would somebody try this:

if you have them in your patch, as an experiment,
are they not attracted to a bug Zapper? or, Zappers? lol---
i know they crawl around at night, during the day and
basically 24/7. seems to me they need to see something,
how about a bug zapper? set right next to the plant,
just to see if they are attracted to it. you know, along WITH the moths and ......uhh, gee, isn't the squash vine borer a moth? yeah, and moths probably like bug zappers,
at least for a few minutes, lol........eric

6/3/2005 5:57:33 PM

North Smithfield, RI USA

They use goldenrod as an alternate host and their larva feed on corn roots !!!

6/3/2005 6:13:52 PM

Indiana

Provado and Warrior from here til september

6/3/2005 8:20:04 PM

Joliet, IL

talstar one for the first spray this sunday evening and
demand cs two weeks later and flip flop all season. its time for preventative maintenance prior to their arrival.
the talstar works nice and never had chemical burn of any kind, but the demand cs (lambda cyhalothorin or close to that) kicks butt on the svb's which should arrive about june 15th here i imagine especially with 85 degree temps predicted for all next week. the battle begins for me sunday night after sundown.

6/3/2005 8:38:52 PM