catjac1975
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For my fellow gardening friends New info on fighting this pest. The Yellow striped cucumber beetle will spread disease on your cucumbers and other curcurbits. I read to use a yellow tray, fill it with soap and water. I tried this and added vegetable oil, also. It is now filling up with the YSCB. I also read to use BT. However this did not make sense to me until I researched further. It kills the beetle in the larval stage. Soak the soil around your seedlings and you may never even see the beetles emerge. I will still do a treatment or two of neem oil. It is pretty effective, but I an loving the yellow tray attractant.
