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- From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Squash Bugs
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:02:56 -0500
Gail
Assuming you won't want to use a commercial pesticide, one strategy that
might work if your planting isn't too big and you can manage the electricity
issue (perhaps a generator?), try using a shop-vac to suck them off the
plant. That family of insects (the true "bugs") seems to be susceptible to
that strategy. It's not susceptible to much else, unless you want to pick
them off by hand. If you're not against using an organic pyrethrin
insecticide, you might want to spray them with that first to weaken them so
they're easier to remove from the plants with the vacuum.
Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center
>Any suggestions about what I can do about all those bugs besides wasting a
>couple of hours picking them and squashing them only to see more of them
the
>next time I check under the leaves?
>
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[Market-farming] Squash Bugs,
Kevin Wilson, 09/18/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] Squash Bugs, Elaine Granata, 09/18/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] Squash Bugs,
Gail Hoskisson, 09/24/2004
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[Market-farming] vacuum squash bugs,
Marie Kamphefner, 09/24/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] vacuum squash bugs, Pat Meadows, 09/25/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] Squash Bugs,
TxBeeFarmer, 09/24/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] Squash Bugs,
Bill Bradshaw, 09/24/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] Squash Bugs, Tradingpost, 09/24/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] Squash Bugs, Gail Hoskisson, 09/24/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] Squash Bugs,
Bill Bradshaw, 09/24/2004
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[Market-farming] vacuum squash bugs,
Marie Kamphefner, 09/24/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- [Market-farming] Squash Bugs, Carl Hatfield, 09/18/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] Squash Bugs, Bill Shoemaker, 09/20/2004
-
[Market-farming] squash bugs,
JANNA ANDERSON, 09/25/2004
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[Market-farming] Black beans,
pwors, 09/26/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] Black beans, Pat Meadows, 09/26/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] Black beans, Bill Bradshaw, 09/26/2004
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[Market-farming] Black beans,
pwors, 09/26/2004
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