David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Striped cucumber beetles have been roaring into watermelon fields now that the sky has cleared. Our threshold for watermelon, which is not susceptible to a bacterial wilt, is 2 per plant. A lot of folks… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu There have been problems in our vegetable fields with three pests: striped cucumber beetles, leafhoppers and twospotted spider mites. I think most of the problems we are having with these three… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland;jbrust@umd.edu If you think striped cucumber beetles seemed to be in greater than normal numbers this year you are not alone. This has been a particularly bad year for striped cucumber beetles in… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu and Karen Rane, Extension Specialist Entomology, University of Maryland rane@umd.edu We have seen very high populations of striped cucumber beetles on squash, pumpkins, cantaloupe, watermelon and other cucurbits over the last… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu I talk about this every year it seems, but I still see cucumber beetle and squash bug problems at the base of growers’ cucurbit plants. So far this has been a… Continue Reading
