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  • From: "Wiediger, Alison" <alison.wiediger AT hart.kyschools.us>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Cucumber Beetles
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:15:15 -0600

We did. Used hoops over the bed like we use to support row cover and
hung the traps from the hoops, so they were maybe 18 inches above the
crop? Really worked well (not perfect, what is?, but well)and the traps
lasted most of the season.

Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm

-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Robert G.
Hadad
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:14 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Cucumber Beetles

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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