thanks for reply but I have already used both the methods you mentioned
without any better luck. I put them on ceramic tile plus I have a few
growing on a hog wire fence to which I tie them up with panty hose for
support (no pun intended) and they still get worms.
Any other advice?

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Sam
Along the Grand Strand of Myrtle Beach SC
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I have several cantaloupe vines which are loaded, have been picking ripe
ones for a couple weeks now however about half of them have a worm hole
in
the side, some can be cut out and are ok, others are trash.
Does anyone have a good solution to prevent this?

Here are a couple of ideas:

1. Make sure ripening melons are off the ground (place a brick or
something under each one) so they may better avoid ground-crawling pests,
as well as rot.
2. A suggestion from our local newspaper (San Francisco Chronicle, in an
article which appeared a week or so ago): get some old nylon stockings
and slip one over each melon. They're elastic (so as to allow for growth
of the fruit) and critters large and small won't enjoy trying to chew
through all that fabric.

-- dkra

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