After all the work involved in starting your garden and the research you've put into learning the mistakes to avoid when planting garden cucumbers, it's devastating to watch them shrivel up and die ...

Cucumber beetles are common pests in our vegetable gardens. The most common species in California is the western spotted cucumber beetle, Diabrotica undecimpunctata. It is a greenish yellow insect ...

Q:I hope you can help me. Last year, we had a major invasion of spotted cucumber beetles. I began with my usual routine with pests: hand-picking and dropping them into a pan of soapy water. Soon I was ...

Gardeners, beware! With the onset of warm days, there is a ravenous pest than can move rapidly onto its favored plants, curcurbits or melons (especially honeydew, crenshaw and casaba), and begin ...

If you’ve ever grown cucumbers or squash in your home garden, you may know the destruction of the spotted cucumber beetle. At first glance, this beautiful bug may look like an elongated, yellow-hued ...

These days, many of us have noticed in our gardens a greenish yellow beetle with 12 black spots on its back. Some also may have noticed damage to vegetable leaves, scaring on fruits, or girdling of ...

Cucumber and squash production is in full swing in the garden, but there is a key pest that can affect the yield and quality of the fruit. The striped cucumber beetle (Acalymma vittatumare) can be a ...

This study tests the hypothesis that feeding behavior in the herbivorous coccinellid Epilachna borealis is an effective adaptation for avoiding facultative chemical defenses in its cucurbit host ...

When combined with karanja oil (Pnogania glabra), the mixture was reported to decrease cucumber beetle infestations by 50 to 70 percent. There are other organic alternatives: sabadilla and rotenone or ...

Signs of cucumber beetle activity include chewed leaves, holes, dimples, and scars on fruits. Cucumber beetles transmit bacterial wilt and cucumber mosaic virus, which cause plant death. Cucumber ...

Summertime is here, and with it comes — let's just phrase it this way — "opportunities" for us as gardeners to outwit uninvited pests that think we planted our gardens just for them. One that seems to ...

Now that fall is waning into winter, it is time for many of us to reflect on our garden successes and failures. I often find that I learn more from my garden failures and battles than I do from my ...