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  • From: "Robert G. Hadad" <rgh26 AT cornell.edu>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Cucumber Beetles
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:13:30 -0500

Has anyone tried using yellow sticky card traps in the field for cucumber
beetles?


Robert Hadad
Cornell Vegetable Program
Fresh Market Specialist
4487 Lake Ave.
Lockport, NY 14094
rgh26 AT cornell.edu
585-739-4065
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From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Wiediger, Alison
[alison.wiediger AT hart.kyschools.us]
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:06 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Cucumber Beetles

Last year, for the first time, we used yellow sticky traps and cucumber
beetle lures (bought ours from Johnny's). They were amazingly effective!
Our cucumbers in the high tunnel went from being significantly damaged to
undamaged in just a few days. Then we moved them to our outdoor production
and they were effective there also. I think they are worth a try for anyone
having trouble with cucumber beetles.

On using Surround, we have tried it for squash beetles and found it
marginally effective, but found the clay hard to wash off the fruit, and
whitish clay on zucchini is very unattractive, and looks to the customer like
any other "chemical" spray. Not a incentive to buy it!

Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm

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From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Shawnee
Flowerfarmer
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:00 PM
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?

Marie and the other kind souls who have shared their insight and
experiences with guineas, Thank you very much. It may come down to trading
one problem (bugs) for another (guinea fowl). Back to my original objective:
figure out some way to minimize the damage caused by cucumber, asparagus and
squash beetles and harlequin bugs. I also had the problem mentioned by one
of the posters, and that is wilt as secondary damage from cucumber beetles.
What do farmers do who are organic or nearly so? Tom

We ask everybody what they do, try everything and are still troubled by the
cucurbit Bad Boys. The Cornell agricultural website has a good study about
using certain varieties as trap crops planted as a barrier and so on, but
those insects remain a very difficult problem often requiring several
different methods of control, vigilance and persistence. Soon, you will have
your own methods to suggest and we will be glad to hear them. Of the wilt
spread by their feeding, I haven't found anything that guarantees a crop.
Shawnee, zone 5





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