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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: Cucumber Beetles
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:27:24 -0500

Thanks for sharing that insight Del. I'd be interested in investigating that
idea. I'll have to think about it a little bit first. But my big problem is
that, for some odd reason, I haven't seen any cucumber beetles this year.
I'm sure they'll return eventually. And when they do, I'll try your idea
out.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center


>I know this sounds odd but I ended up dusting some cucumber and squash
>plants with BT a couple years ago and the C Beetle problem went away.
>
>I reasoned that it wasn't the BT. It was the dust. So, I dusted the
plants
>with wheat flour. It worked. Maybe they don't like that gummy stuff in
>their little blackhearted mouths. I don't know. It just worked.
>
>And by the way, before I got to my other squash with that flour, those
>beetles took out almost my entire heirloom squash plantings. What survived
>were those plants that got the flour.
>
>Would some researcher figure this one out for me please?
>
>Del Williams
>
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