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No Place Special

if they dont have pumpkin plants and such. Can they eat grass or weeds? Just trying to learn as much as I can so I can better fight them.

5/27/2007 1:26:42 AM

Roselle, IL GJGEM@sbcglobal.net

They like corn. They are all over my tall corn later in the year. Do you have any corn in Iowa?

5/27/2007 8:49:10 AM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

The adults don't eat an awful lot of anything but Potato crops do get nibbled on.

5/27/2007 9:44:01 AM

No Place Special

Corn in Iowa...LMAO! Well I am next to a farm field but it will be beans this year. Maybe that will help.

5/27/2007 12:33:20 PM

Jericho Vermont

That will just give em gas Mike and make em hungrier.

5/27/2007 12:36:24 PM

Topsfield, Ma.

LOL @ VtJohn

5/27/2007 7:22:00 PM

San Jose garysand@pacbell.net

steve, just asking, if they dont eat our pumpkin plants then what the H*&& are they doing there, do we know?

I just found two beetles on my two week old cucumber plants, this seems a bit early to me, what do they get from our plants?

Thanks

Gary

5/29/2007 11:21:43 PM

Leamington, Ont.

Mike, I found that leaving a male flower or two open will get their attention. They always seem to huddle inside male flowers....Pinch the flowers shut, cut them off and step on them.
I have yet to have any real leaf damage since trying this. It really does work for me.

Last season I did see a few cuke's on my giant sunflower leaves. Not sure if they were actually eating them or not though...

5/30/2007 12:00:27 AM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

They do eat. Just not very much. They come to us to procreate. If they didn't vector diseases a small infestation wouldn't be so alarming. But it only takes one lucky bite to end the season so we wage war anyway.

5/30/2007 11:55:34 AM