Samuel Nesbitt

Physical barriers.. I assume one such barrier would be "row covers"... this makes sense but I have three questions:

1) The cucumber beetle comes from a larvae which matures underground. It would seem the row cover would only serve to keep them contained inside where the plants are. How to prevent this problem, if it is a problem.
2) It would seem the row covers would prevent bees from pollinating. Do I remove it when the plants are flowering?
3) Are there any other types of physical barriers that I could look at?

Thanks for the welcome. This seems like a nice and useful forum. Good to be here.

I had a few last year, which I just removed manually, but was not a big problem because there were so few. The vacuum cleaner sounds very useful.
I am going to have to read up on "row covers". I don't mind prevention strategies, I am in this for the long term.
Still reading vegetablemdonline. I need to see what they have to say about it.

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Yellow with black spots... kinda cute, but eating everything. They appeared suddenly in the thousands.
Does anyone know what kind they are and how to protect my garden without Ortho etc?
thanks much