Pest on crop
Cucumber Beetle on summer squash
Acalymma vittatum (striped) and Diabrotica undecimpunctata (spotted)
Yellow-and-black beetles that feed on cucurbit foliage and flowers, but the bigger problem is that they vector bacterial wilt and cucumber mosaic virus.
- Pest
- Cucumber Beetle
- Scientific name
- Acalymma vittatum (striped) and Diabrotica undecimpunctata (spotted)
- Crop
- Summer Squash
- Total hosts
- 6
Cucumber Beetle on summer squash
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Signs on summer squash
- ▸ Beetles on foliage and inside open flowers
- ▸ Notched or skeletonized leaves on young plants
- ▸ Sudden wilting of one runner at a time (bacterial wilt symptom)
IPM controls
- ✓ Floating row cover from transplant until first female flowers (then remove for pollination)
- ✓ Yellow sticky traps on plant stakes
- ✓ Kaolin clay (Surround) on foliage
- ✓ Trap-crop with Blue Hubbard squash on the field edges, treat heavily there
- ✓ Plant after first peak emergence to dodge the population spike
Other crops affected by cucumber beetle
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