How to control squash bugs - Page 2

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Originally Posted by Daisy8s 

I've heard that some ducks are great for squash bugs...
 

and they love my pepper plants too :)  I don't let the ducks in the garden much anymore.  However they did do the trick on eliminating most of my snails.

My elderly farmer neighbor swears by Franks Red Hot Sauce.  Dilute it in water and sprinkle it over the plants.  The only problem is you have to reapply it every time it rains or when you water.

I just pick them off and eat them. They're good with pill bugs.

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Originally Posted by hemet dennis 

I just pick them off and eat them. They're good with pill bugs.

 YOU TUFF!!!!cva34

Get a 1 gallon pump sprayer. Fill it with water and add 4-5 tablespoons of Dawn dish washing liquid. I was using this on advice from a gardening forum to combat stink bugs and leaf footed bugs: It seems to kill the squash bugs too.

Also, keep the area under the plants completely weed free so they don't have any hiding places other than the plant itself. Also, I put out some pheremone lures in my war against squash vine borers and have found lots of squash bugs in those as well (yellow and white plastic ones available from the giant pumpkin growers sites).

Good luck and I hope you get them under control!
 

Johnnys  Seed dot com has a host of organic sprays and formulas that work extremely well on potato bugs, squash bugs, etc.  You don't have to use 7 if you want to control garden pests.  In our experience, some of the products work better and last longer than other.  Some are effective, but have no staying power.  There just aren't made that way.

Most of the products can also be purchased from Amazon, as said earlier.  Sometimes, local garden shops also stock many of the products.

I dust my plants with Garden Dust by Bonide. Non-toxic to me and my dogs and it works great as well on the mildew my pumpkin leaves sometimes get. It's Pyrethrin, sulfur and copper. I only dust the top of the leaves and the bugs run underneath....but eventually they come out and the garden dust gets them! It lasts trough a couple of minor rainstorms as well. It's green so I just re-dust when I can't see the green anymore.

We just pick them off and squash them them look for eggs on the underside of leaves and destroy those too. That's the only thing that I've found works with any reliability. I've been told waiting to plant them until now will interrupt their life cycle since they hatch at about the same time each year and if they have nothing to eat will die off. I'm going to try that next year and see how it works. Good luck.
 

Hey, Prettychicks! I have been fighting them for awhile. . . . . for some time I was killing them every day!!!! This is my very first garden ever, so I am learning as I go. 

I used that plant, row cover,stuff  and put that on and  it keeps them off.Or/and  go jiggle the  plants everyday and smash um