The dreaded yellow striped cucumber beetles

[catjac1975]

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.

 

[digitS']

Spraying with Spinosad doesn't always take them out, for me. I think that it is because they stay under the plants hiding and feeding from there, right against the ground. Also, they seem to show up "en masse."

After a week, I have hit them again with pyrethrum. That makes for a one-two punch and has worked.

You are using a trap! That should be so much less of a bother. Trying to spray under a cucumber plant is dang awkward.

Steve

 

[Dirtmechanic]

Spraying with Spinosad doesn't always take them out, for me. I think that it is because they stay under the plants hiding and feeding from there, right against the ground. Also, they seem to show up "en masse."

After a week, I have hit them again with pyrethrum. That makes for a one-two punch and has worked.

You are using a trap! That should be so much less of a bother. Trying to spray under a cucumber plant is dang awkward.

Steve

Nothing is easy. Or free, for that matter. I do love a good lure. I love a good pheromone trap most of all as they are highly specific. Spendy but very specific. Much like I think nerds will soon disappear once those crafty attractive robots get perfected.