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Hitchins, KY, USA

I uploaded some pictures of the eggs I am seeing in my garden. Are these SVB or squash bug eggs?

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh132/bubbyec50/SVB001.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh132/bubbyec50/SVB002.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh132/bubbyec50/SVB003.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh132/bubbyec50/SVB004.jpg

7/29/2008 10:34:14 PM

San Jose garysand@pacbell.net

they look similar to squash bug eggs

7/30/2008 12:07:21 AM

Bloomington, IN

http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/M1208.html

7/30/2008 2:23:22 AM

Central Connecticut

Squash bug...SVB's don't lay bunches of eggs like that. just 1...all over the place.

7/30/2008 8:28:07 AM

Williamsburg,KY

Good grief...squash bugs to the max.

7/30/2008 8:42:16 AM

Lexington, Ky

Thank you Bushwacker!

7/30/2008 9:04:00 AM

Hitchins, KY, USA

I have sprayed with Malathion and Triazicide......will this work?

7/30/2008 9:15:47 AM

Massillon, Ohio

Thanks BMO for the excellent reference. I have battled squash bugs this season along with an absolute invasion of cucumber beetles (even though I did regular preventive spraying). In my reading, and from experience, I found out that organic products won't touch the squash bugs. Merit and Talstar did the job. It was interesting to read that, "unlike cucumber beetles, squash bugs do not vector diseases."

7/30/2008 10:11:39 AM

Lexington, Ky

Squash bugs DO vector disease!!!!

7/31/2008 9:27:05 AM

Lexington, Ky

Squash bugs inject a toxic substance while sucking on your plants and fruit.

7/31/2008 9:32:00 AM

Bloomington, IN

Well ya they might inject their own stuff, but what I think the article meant was that they don't contribute to the spreading of disease.

7/31/2008 2:35:18 PM

Lexington, Ky

lmao!

8/1/2008 8:31:57 AM

Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States

According to this source, squash bug can vector a disease and the disease is much more devastating then the juice-sucking of the insect.

http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef314.asp

8/22/2008 10:12:03 PM