Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

Learn to identify common culprits damaging your plants. Discover what insects could be eating your plants and how to stop it.

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It is transmitted by an insect (cucumber beetles) and is incurable once the disease symptoms appear. Both striped and spotted cucumber beetles chew on their namesake plants, though the former is ...

The blue hubbard squash, a cultivar of the Cucurbita maxima species, is particularly attractive to striped and spotted cucumber beetles. Therefore, it’s an excellent trap crop for these pesky yellow ...

While both species of cucumber beetles greatly prefer cucurbits, the spotted ones will also eat many other kinds of plants if no cucurbits are around. Spotted cucumber beetles do not overwinter in ...

The Adult Stage The last stage in the life cycle of a beetle is the adult beetle. Here an adult Spotted Cucumber Beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) makes its way along a pine needle. These beetles ...

Spotted cucumber beetle is destructive to cucurbit crops in the vegetable garden. (Betty Cahill / Special to the Denver Post) It is important to clean up garden plant debris every fall so there ...

For cucumber, gourd, and melon plants, that pest is the cucumber beetle. These insects come in two varieties: striped (Acalymma vittatum) and spotted (Diabrotica undecimpunctata). Both types feed on ...

The spotted cucumber beetle, also known as the southern corn rootworm, has 12 black spots on its back. Both can be damaging, but the striped cucumber beetle is more problematic because of its ability ...