Here is how you build and use a simple DIY organic squash bug trap for your garden. Stop the damage to your squash, zucchini, and winter squash plants.
0:00 Build a Squash Bug Trap
0:52 Squash Bug Trap Design One – 1 Squash Bug Caught
1:46 Squash Bug Trap Design Two – 2 Squash Bugs Caught
3:00 Another Squash Bug Caught (3) – Also Snails & Slugs
3:39 Trap 4 Checked and 4 Squash Bugs Caught
4:49 Trap Catches Slugs, Snails, Rollie Pollies, and Squash Bugs
5:20 Close Up of the 2 Squash Bug Trap Designs
6:25 How to Place the Squash Bug Traps Around Plants
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Ise a bungee cord to roll
Do you have a good idea for home made cucumber beetle traps? They kill my cucumber plants often
I think you are there just use a bucket of water and a couple rocks to submerge the traps for a day or two then pull out your soaking wet traps and repeat.
Cool idea, you need a pair of forceps to reach down in there and get them.
You could use Velcro straps around the cardboard cylinders that way you can easily open the re-roll and fasten. Couldn’t you just step on the cylinder and crush them inside the just reshape round again
🇨🇦 🇨🇦 WILL THIS WORK FOR POTATOE BUGS ALSO?? * What about one THICK sheet of cardboard folded over LESS times, then use just a clip to keep bent in half. It may dry out quicker but with less folds and just a clip it'd be a simpler more time efficient process to dump amd reload..
My squash aren't even big enough yet to do the foil wrap on their feet but I will do this now. Great idea. Maybe put some borax/sugar in there to kill anything that goes in?
In my area the cardboard would also attract ticks.
Maybe try a thin bamboo stake to push it through the other side or squish it if it gets stuck in there
inexpensive way ! that is awesome! maybe try a piece of wire to run through the cardboard to pull them out into a bucket, with some chemical (gas) wonder if a paper town tube would work too
Gary, I need help. I have pill bugs/rollie pollies in the thousands and possibly 100's of thousands in my raised beds. They have taken out all of my veggies in 5 of my 3.5' x 6.5' raised beds: cauliflower, broccoli, chard, pole beans, Basil, birdhouse gourds, cabbage, bok choy and now all over my pepper plants and bush beans. I sprinkled Saturday Lime but it must be an aphrodisiac cause they just walk all over it. S.O.S!
Use Velcro straps
I don't have a major problem with squash bugs – I just don't grow much in that squash family. However, traps for roly-polys and earwigs – THAT I can get behind. FAB!
Get a cheap hand vac to suck those suckers out!!
What about throwing the cardboard trap in a pail of water? 10 minutes later, take it out and replace it
Battery powered handheld vacuum. I use one for cucumber beetles.
Works great
This is great! Thank you!
Going to try this. I've been avoiding planting zucchini this year because O don't want to deal with the squash bug. Thank you!
Maybe a hand held vacuum with a !omg crevice tool?
It sounds like there's no beneficial bugs. How about experimenting with putting a tube with diatomaceous earth, or some insect killer in the center?
Great idea!! Thank you 👍
Prob catch a bunch of earwigs too.
Use can of compressed air, for cleaning computer components. Aiming into water bucket.
You can use Velcro straps to hold the roll closed, and maybe some wooden dowels between the cardboard to keep it from collapsing when it's wet, sort of like a tool roll.
Maybe a velcro strap.
I don't have carboard. Will cardboard work?