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- From: Gail Hoskisson <moabgail AT frontiernet.net>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Squash Bugs
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:34:38 -0600
on 9/18/04 10:31 AM, Kevin Wilson at kevin.wilson100 AT shaw.ca wrote:
> How about a vacuum cleaner?
on 9/18/04 8:06 PM, Elaine Granata at ecgranat AT ouray.cudenver.edu wrote:
> I have a cottage cheese container filled with soapy water and I
> knock them off into the container and they drown
on 9/18/04 9:23 PM, Carl Hatfield at cmkfield AT pmt.org wrote:
> I haven't tried this personally but a man I know in this areea says to mix 1
> cup 3% hydrogen peroxide
> 1 gallon water
> 3 tablespoons liquid soap (he uses Joy)
> shake well & spray directly onto squash bugs. He says it kills them
> instantly.
on 9/20/04 7:02 AM, Bill Shoemaker at wshoemak AT inil.com wrote:
> 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.
Thanks so much to you all for the suggestions. I'm still surprised and
grinning about the idea of taking a vacuum to them but if the peroxide
mixture doesn't work, that's what I'll try next after confusing the little
buggers with some pyrethrin so they don't scramble away as soon as I lift
the leaves.
Gail
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[Market-farming] Squash Bugs,
Kevin Wilson, 09/18/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] Squash Bugs, Elaine Granata, 09/18/2004
-
Re: [Market-farming] Squash Bugs,
Gail Hoskisson, 09/24/2004
-
[Market-farming] vacuum squash bugs,
Marie Kamphefner, 09/24/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] vacuum squash bugs, Pat Meadows, 09/25/2004
-
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
-
Re: [Market-farming] Squash Bugs,
Bill Bradshaw, 09/24/2004
-
[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
- [Market-farming] Black beans, pwors, 09/26/2004
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