When I grow cantaloupe, the wire worms, as they are called here (Click
Beetle Larva), burrow into the melons from the bottom making them unsellable
and partially inedible.
I don't have the problem anymore because, now, just as soon as the
melons are big enough, I insert them into plastic ice cream buckets - it
works best when the buckets are on their sides. I tried boards, newspaper,
metal, all to no avail; the only thing that works (for me) is plastic ice
cream buckets.
Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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