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  • From: "Wiediger, Alison" <alison.wiediger AT hart.kyschools.us>
  • To: <idyllwildfarm AT gmail.com>, "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Flea Beetles, Striped Cucumber Beetles and Squash Bugs, Oh My!
  • Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:27:45 -0600

On cucumbers, we found last year that a yellow sticky trap with a
cucumber lure inside gave us almost perfect cucumbers. We could tell a
difference in just 2 or 3 days after hanging the traps. We used them
for our early cucumbers in the high tunnels, and took them to our
outdoor crop when the high tunnel crop was finished. Paul used wire
hoops over the bed outside to hang them from, about 3 in a 30 foot long
bed. The effectiveness was excellent. We got ours from Johnny's seeds,
although they may be available elsewhere. The lure made the difference
in effectiveness over just a sticky trap.

Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Idyllwild
Farm
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:52 AM
To: 'Market Farming'
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Flea Beetles,Striped Cucumber Beetles and
Squash Bugs, Oh My!

Dorene:
Thank you for this info- solutions are always energizing for me (even
looking out at 10inches of snow in Northern KY).

Did they happen to mention US sources of Protechnet or Enviromesh. All I
found via google was a Quebec source (which incidently had a tractor
powered row cover remover from Sweden that was really cool to see).

Thanks,
Mike


Idyllwild Farm
7251 Four Mile Rd
Melbourne, KY 41059

email: idyllwildfarm AT gmail.com
blog: http://idyllwildfarm.wordpress.com

-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Alliums
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:09 AM
To: 'Market Farming'
Subject: [Market-farming] Flea Beetles,Striped Cucumber Beetles and
Squash Bugs, Oh My!



Hi, Folks!

So glad to be home for this snowstorm instead of snowbound in State
College, PA last weekend for the PASA conference.

Anyway, I did manage to get to a Penn State entomologist's talk on
cucurbit pests. He did a study and found that flea beetles, striped
cucumber beetles and squash bugs have worse infestations in
organic/sustainable systems than conventional systems.

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