I have never hate a pest quite as much as the Squash Borer , Melittia cucurbitae . They are not just simple annoying garden pest . They are the epitome of evil that cause full destruction and demise of otherwise perfectly beautiful , productive industrial plant .
These loathsome black and ruby-red flying insects will lay eggs on squeeze plant around the time the plants reach their mature size of it and start to bloom . This happens to precisely coincide with the time that nurseryman get down to feel a sense of pride and accomplishment gazing upon their lush green garden . Then , BAM ! The ball hatch , and nasty little larva bore into the al-Qaida of the vines to begin feast and destroying . Our pristine other Summer garden are of a sudden plagued with sickly looking wilted squash . The lilliputian eggs and harmless looking adult commonly go unnoticed . So , by the fourth dimension the damage is done , it is commonly , too later to spare the vine . When borer damage vines are examined , hole surrounding by what appears to sawdust are found near the base of the plants . The disgusting punch like larva that cause the damage are ordinarily out of ken , blithely nestled in the hollow out out vines .
The following link can help oneself you check more about the life cycle of these evil prick .
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/veg/leaf/squash_vine_borer.htm
https://www.almanac.com/pest/squash-vine-borer
If you just want to know more about how to toss off them or how to grow squash in spite of them , go on .
If you Google “ how to wipe out squash racquets borers ” , you will not find any definitive direction on how to effectively rid your garden of these pest . Instead , you will line up list of borer ascendence method that are sometimes expensive , often hilarious , usually quite tedious , and almost always a wastefulness of time . I , and member of my family , have prove the following ridiculous methods to save our precious squash .
Ways to waste clock time and Department of Energy trying to redeem squash from borers :
After sample every matter on this leaning , on the cyberspace , and under the sun to rid our garden of squash vine bore bit . I had to consider how worthful my time is and how cheap squash racquets are at the grocery store . There was a voice of rationality ( named Alex ) telling me that it was n’t worth the trouble . So , I said I was n’t going to give mash a billet in the garden any longer . Well , I lied .
I stew over it all winter last year and decided I was driven to have squash in spite of the borers ! Squash is not my absolute best-loved crop . But , I still had to cipher out ways to spring up it . I could not be beaten by these bugs ! I had to come through .
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A post shared byDiggingfood(@diggingfood ) onJul 25 , 2018 at 6:46am PDT
So how did I beat the borers ? I did n’t . Instead of obsess over killing them or altering their life history oscillation . I decide to plan the Summer garden believe that there would in fact be borers and they would not be stopped . Variety selection and timing were planned accordingly and we ended up harvesting mountain of curcubits . I felt like a winner when I cooked with and blogged about our delicious squash vine ( Stuffed Patty Pan with Prosciutto and Chanterellesand late sharedGolden Nugget : a Perfect Winter Squash ) . I be after on growing plenty more crush this Summer using the same planning as last year .
How to really beat the borer or grow squeeze no matter of them
Careful garden planning is definitely the near way deal with squash vine borers . I ’d rather spend more clip enjoying Summer , and less time on hands and knees in the garden performing surgery on squash vine . My neighbor probably still opine I ’m screwball .
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