Sometimes things happen in the garden when you least expect it. Last week, we had a major outbreak of spotted cucumber beetles. They were not in the vegetable garden where you would expect. Instead, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. spotted cucumber beetle Your carefully nurtured cucumber plants are suddenly wilting despite all your best efforts. Or maybe it's ...

Protect your cucumbers, cantaloupe, squash, and pumpkins from cucumber beetles and the plant disease they can spread. If you ...

Gardeners, beware! With the onset of warm days, there is a ravenous pest than can move rapidly onto its favored plants, curcurbits or melons (especially honeydew, crenshaw and casaba), and begin ...

Signs of cucumber beetle activity include chewed leaves, holes, dimples, and scars on fruits. Cucumber beetles transmit bacterial wilt and cucumber mosaic virus, which cause plant death. Cucumber ...

Cucumber beetles are common pests in our vegetable gardens. The most common species in California is the western spotted cucumber beetle, Diabrotica undecimpunctata. It is a greenish yellow insect ...

There are nearly 1 million known insect species on Earth, and just 2% of these insects are harmful to plants, animals or humans. Managing insects in the vegetable garden and home landscape requires an ...

Many insects plague the vegetable gardener, but few are as lethal as the squash bug and the cucumber beetle. Plants may die from the squash bugs' continual feeding or from the bacterial wilt that ...