Oh no. Not the dreaded cucumber beetle. A big issue with them is if they’re on like your cucumbers you can’t spray many insecticides without harming your cucumbers. Some people have had success with spraying neem oil on their cucumbers, other choices is handpicking them, or making traps you can find online.
They absolutely suck because sometimes even if they don’t kill the plants outright by eating them, they can bring in diseases like bacterial wilt which will eventually kill your cucumbers.
Impressive-Gas-8407
Kill them in front of their family… to send a warning to them all.
Prior_Hair_896
that’s a mint humbug
TheRealMasterTyvokka
Admire its gorgeous colors and then squish it like a bug.
Wickedweed
Get a bug vacuum
jh937hfiu3hrhv9
Knock them off into a cup off water with a couple drops of dish soap.
twanthegamecock
Queue Seek and Destroy by Metallica
justmakingmypoint
Eat it
Happy_Veggie
Cry in despair… Or pick them by hand before they fly or crawl away
VaWeedFarmer
BT spray
Bladerdude1260
Has anyone had any luck using beneficial nematodes to control cucumber beetles or any other bugs for that matter?
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Oh no. Not the dreaded cucumber beetle. A big issue with them is if they’re on like your cucumbers you can’t spray many insecticides without harming your cucumbers. Some people have had success with spraying neem oil on their cucumbers, other choices is handpicking them, or making traps you can find online.
They absolutely suck because sometimes even if they don’t kill the plants outright by eating them, they can bring in diseases like bacterial wilt which will eventually kill your cucumbers.
Kill them in front of their family… to send a warning to them all.
that’s a mint humbug
Admire its gorgeous colors and then squish it like a bug.
Get a bug vacuum
Knock them off into a cup off water with a couple drops of dish soap.
Queue Seek and Destroy by Metallica
Eat it
Cry in despair… Or pick them by hand before they fly or crawl away
BT spray
Has anyone had any luck using beneficial nematodes to control cucumber beetles or any other bugs for that matter?