zuccini and borers
 

I had a problem with squash borers last year. I was wondering if anybody knows
what the egg looks like when it gets laid on the plant stem.
I found a few hard, very small brownish circular things that I thought might
be the eggs. There was one on a stalk attached facing the ground, maybe four on
every other plant.
I hate these pests. They take a wonderful thriving plant and bring it to its
knees.
So far the only way I found to fight them was to find the holes they make on
the bottom of the stalk and stick thin a wire in and try to skewer the little
black faced larvas.
If I can get the eggs off the plant before it is too late that would save a lot
of back breaking work.

zuccini and borers
 

The small brownish circular things may be squash bug eggs. Squash bugs will
kill your squash every bit as effectively as borers -- but I find dozens of
them on my zucchini, not just a few.

Karl W.

"Jack1000" wrote in message
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I had a problem with squash borers last year. I was wondering if anybody
knows
what the egg looks like when it gets laid on the plant stem.
I found a few hard, very small brownish circular things that I thought
might
be the eggs. There was one on a stalk attached facing the ground, maybe
four on
every other plant.
I hate these pests. They take a wonderful thriving plant and bring it to
its
knees.
So far the only way I found to fight them was to find the holes they make
on
the bottom of the stalk and stick thin a wire in and try to skewer the
little
black faced larvas.
If I can get the eggs off the plant before it is too late that would save
a lot
of back breaking work.

zuccini and borers
 

floating row covers or even use pvc arched over the plant to drape netting.
second is Bt to kill the caterpillars.
Ingrid

(Jack1000) wrote:

I had a problem with squash borers last year. I was wondering if anybody knows
what the egg looks like when it gets laid on the plant stem.
I found a few hard, very small brownish circular things that I thought might
be the eggs. There was one on a stalk attached facing the ground, maybe four on
every other plant.
I hate these pests. They take a wonderful thriving plant and bring it to its
knees.
So far the only way I found to fight them was to find the holes they make on
the bottom of the stalk and stick thin a wire in and try to skewer the little
black faced larvas.
If I can get the eggs off the plant before it is too late that would save a lot
of back breaking work.



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