July and August in the vegetable garden typically bring bountiful harvests of colorful vegetables. These are also the months when insect pests can really make their presence known, with plant and ...

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 ...

Now that fall is waning into winter, it is time for many of us to reflect on our garden successes and failures. I often find that I learn more from my garden failures and battles than I do from my ...

Q: Last summer I had cucumbers and zucchini wilting and dying even though I’m pretty certain I didn’t have root rot or squash vine borer. What should I try this year so I can hopefully get a harvest?

Q. I have had little striped bugs on my cucumbers. The plants seem fine and then they wilt away. Are these things related? A. It sounds as though you are struggling with cucumber beetles. Both striped ...

Use repellants and protective clothing to avoid tick bites that can spread Lyme disease. Natural strategies work best in combatting pests such as Colorado potato beetles, striped cucumber beetles, ...

Have your ever looked at a plant in your garden and seen these lovely little green bugs with black dots? Oh, a green lady bug, you might have thought. Not so, rather it’s Diabrotica, a widespread ...

Do you have cucumber beetles bugging your garden? Do you want to send them packing? Let's learn about their lifecycle first, and then discuss some control methods. There are two types of cucumber ...

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 ...

The first striped cucumber beetles of the season have finally showed up in my garden. These bright and happily colored pests cause a lot of damage in the garden. Although cucumbers are their preferred ...

Every time I plant cucumbers, I hold my breath, because there’s a good chance they’ll perish before they produce. Why? Unfortunately, oftentimes our cucumber plants become infected with bacterial wilt ...