May Lotito wrote:Squash bugs over winter in mulch and soil and now it's the time they come out to breed the next generation. Have you check underneath the leaves to find any eggs? I have destroyed over a thousand eggs trying to disrupt their life cycle. Squash bugs didn't kill my squashes last year, powdery mildew did. I still want to keep their numbers at minimum.
I haven't checked the plants in the last few days, I am trying to watch them. I killed thousands last year, eggs, babies, and adults. What the fungus didn't get, the beetles did.
I wondered if they were in the soil under the row covers... Thank you
Need to check them
Last year by this time I had nothing but deadness, this year I have at least some trying, the ones under the cover, and some that are climbing my new arbors. I love squash, hate to have to buy it.