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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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