Your carefully nurtured cucumber plants are suddenly wilting despite all your best efforts. Or maybe it's your squash, melon or pumpkin plants that are affected. Perhaps you see a bug you don't ...

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 ...

Have your ever looked at a plant in your garden and seen these lovely little green bugs with black dots? Oh, a green lady bug, you might have thought. Not so, rather it’s Diabrotica, a widespread ...

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 ...

Use repellants and protective clothing to avoid tick bites that can spread Lyme disease. Natural strategies work best in combatting pests such as Colorado potato beetles, striped cucumber beetles, ...

Do you have cucumber beetles bugging your garden? Do you want to send them packing? Let's learn about their lifecycle first, and then discuss some control methods. There are two types of cucumber ...

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 ...

DEAR NEIL: What is eating the leaves of my zucchini squash? I looked on the backs and didn’t find any eggs. Dear Reader: This is damage caused by striped cucumber beetles. The adult beetles are fond ...

The Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardener helpline is a handy resource for homeowners and anyone else needing answers to lawn or plant-care questions. Master gardeners are trained volunteers ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Cantaloupe growers who walk their fields searching for two crop-damaging insects can do just as good a job if they let the pests come to them. A three-year study by Purdue ...