The USU Cooperative Extension provides free newsletters with current insect and disease issues affecting Utah plants. We have found the newsletters helpful to know what to watch for and what to do when we see specific bugs or diseases. You can click here to sign up to receive the free newsletters via e-mail. This is the website's description for their newsletters: "Plant pest advisories provide information on current pests in landscapes, fruits, and vegetables, and how and when to manage them. They are delivered periodically through the growing season to your email inbox as links to an online newsletter." When you sign up for the newsletters, you choose which newsletters are applicable to you and that you'd like to receive.
Even if you don't live in Utah, you may find it helpful since many things like squash bugs certainly are not isolated to Utah. The squash bugs are bad in our garden right now and have even killed a couple of our plants. Are you fighting squash bugs too? Read how to treat squash bugs in the latest pest advisory newsletter for small fruits and vegetables by clicking here.
Although probably the best attack we've found is giving our boys the job to hunt and squish the bugs! My boys really don't seem to care, but I give them latex gloves because it just seems like a good mother thing to do!
How do you fight squash bugs? What resources do you use to learn about pests and diseases?
I HATE squash bugs. I have found the best way to get rid of them is to check the plants and leaves every day (sometimes twice a day) and kill all of the bugs and scrape off the eggs. If you can keep the eggs from hatching you can get rid of them.
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