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July and August in the vegetable garden typically bring bountiful harvests of colorful vegetables. These are also the months when insect pests can really make their presence known, with plant and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Squash bugs harm zucchini and pumpkins by feeding on leaves and fruit, leading to wilting and poor harvests. Control them early ...

Two harmful pests of squash and pumpkins are squash bugs and the squash vine borer. Both will kill plants and are difficult to control. Adult squash bugs are a mottled charcoal gray color. They are ...

You can have a beautiful, productive garden while working with nature to manage insect pests. As you incorporate various eco-friendly pest management strategies, you will encourage songbirds, ...

A few weeks ago a friend on Facebook posted a picture of a squash bug or Anasa tritis. Seems he was scouting his garden and found the insects on his squash plants. Squash bug has a snout it inserts in ...

Squash bugs are common pests that can cause your squash, pumpkins, and melons to wilt and die. Rotating crops, using straw mulch, and adding companion plants to the garden are all great ways to ...

Each year I plant summer squash and the bugs get at least one or two plants in spite of my spraying and dusting. Please give me some ideas how to control them better. What I've found to be the most ...

A discovery about how a common insect acquires a microbe that is essential for its growth may help in the control of an agricultural pest. The squash bug carries a gut bacterium that is essential for ...

For young squash bugs, a sip full of feces can help the microbes go down. Squash bugs (Anasa tristis) are a major agricultural pest, and a bacterial partner called Caballeronia is essential for their ...

Squash bugs harm zucchini and pumpkins by feeding on leaves and fruit, leading to wilting and poor harvests. Control them early with handpicking, organic sprays, and by attracting beneficial insects.