Squash Bugs

Every year now these sob's decimate my vine garden plants.Bout ready to give up between them and the Chinese stink bugs.Anybody know any way to kill these things?

Sevin, if they haven't outlawed it

Tryed Sevin and Ortho Max,no go.

(quoted from post at 16:57:40 07/08/11) Tryed Sevin and Ortho Max,no go.

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Go to Lowes and buy some Bayer Complete insect killer. Put 2oz per gallon in a sprayer and kill away.

Anything with a synthetic pyrethrin in it will kill squash bugs. Adults will be hard to kill unless sprayed directly on them.

You go about it in the wrong way. I do not and will not do any thing in my garden that is not organic and have very little problems. Herbs planted close to other plants an Marigold also planted around the garden keep most bugs out of my garden. I do not will and have not used any chemicals other then that which comes for an animal or a plant and I will NEVER use a man made chemical in my garden. and I have tomato plants as tall as I am and squash plants 3/4 of my height

(quoted from post at 20:02:41 07/08/11) You go about it in the wrong way. I do not and will not do any thing in my garden that is not organic and have very little problems. Herbs planted close to other plants an Marigold also planted around the garden keep most bugs out of my garden. I do not will and have not used any chemicals other then that which comes for an animal or a plant and I will NEVER use a man made chemical in my garden. and I have tomato plants as tall as I am and squash plants 3/4 of my height

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Pyrethrin is derived from marigolds. We now use synthetic pyrethins

Ah but again if man has his hands in it he in turn messes it up some how. I will stick to what the good lord made and be happy with it

(quoted from post at 20:02:41 07/08/11) You go about it in the wrong way. I do not and will not do any thing in my garden that is not organic and have very little problems. Herbs planted close to other plants an Marigold also planted around the garden keep most bugs out of my garden. I do not will and have not used any chemicals other then that which comes for an animal or a plant and I will NEVER use a man made chemical in my garden. and I have tomato plants as tall as I am and squash plants 3/4 of my height

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We tried the marigold trick one year. The grasshoppers ate those marigolds right along with everything else in the garden.

I agree with Old. I plant nasturtium around my squash, dill and thyme with my cabbage/broccolii, basil/marigolds with tomatoes and sunflowers and zinias for color. I have found very few potatoe bugs--I pick them off--or other insect damage.

Larry

You may have had the wrong type very bad the other does not

On that note, He? also made the all the ingriedients for fukushima.

trick is to wet the bottom of the leaves,buy a sprayer with a metal wand( if they still make such a thing and bend it in a "L" shape to get under leaves.these bugs you have to actually spray the poison on them to be effective.some insects that eat the leaves you can just spray the top and when they eat them poison kills them,others such as squash bugs when you spray they simply move to underside of leaves and you dont kill them.you must get the spray in direct contact with them.BE CAREFUL! make sure whatever you use to spray is listed for use on cucumbrits.lots of bug sprays are not!ever see a old squash plant come back to life in a matter of seconds when you spray the leaves?it will look all wilted and just about dead and you water and almost immediatly it looks healthy again? this is because it sucks a huge amount of the water it needs out of the air through its leaves.anything you spray on it goes directly to the fruit. I have all ways used wettable sevin dust.lettuce is another thing that has very few sprays available for insect control for the same reason.just because something says organic doesnt mean its safe to injest.make sure what you use is listed on the label as safe for the plant you are spraying.

Sevin wont work.