Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

market-farming - Re: [Market-farming] Cucumber Beetle Invasion

market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Market Farming

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Cucumber Beetle Invasion
  • Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 20:17:27 -0700

A researcher from Cornell University once told me that Colorado potato beetle
was a misnomer...they should be called eggplant beetles (not sure about the
CO part), because of their preference toward eggplant. You might be
referring to nightshade, although I didn't think it was prickly. It is a
member of the Solanaceous family, like tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant.

Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522

--- cjmaness AT juno.com wrote:

From: "cjmaness AT juno.com" <cjmaness AT juno.com>
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Cucumber Beetle Invasion
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 02:24:12 GMT

We too have been bombarded with cucumber beetles. I'm getting attacked as
soon as I take cukes and squash out of the greenhouse for transplanting to
the field. It's like one of those really bad "B" movies on late night TV.
They swarm me.
Potato beetles have always preferred eggplant over potatoes on our farm. They
will eat the eggplant down to nothing over night. But, they also prefer one
of those prickly weeds that I can't think of the name of right now, horse
nettle? Purple flowers, prickly, pops up all over the place etc...
I should have known it would be like this. We were hit so early with
asparagus beetles and I wondered then if it was sign of things to come. It
was.
Carla
Perkins, OK

____________________________________________________________
Penny Stock Jumping 2000%
Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today!
http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4c01ccb041dd517e4ddst03duc
_______________________________________________
Market-farming mailing list
Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming

Market Farming List Archives may be found here:
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/market-farming/
Unsubscribe from the list here (you will need to login in with your email
address and password):
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/market-farming






Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page