Your carefully nurtured cucumber plants are suddenly wilting despite all your best efforts. Or maybe it's your squash, melon or pumpkin plants that are affected. Perhaps you see a bug you don't ...

Gardeners, beware! With the onset of warm days, there is a ravenous pest than can move rapidly onto its favored plants, curcurbits or melons (especially honeydew, crenshaw and casaba), and begin ...

Signs of cucumber beetle activity include chewed leaves, holes, dimples, and scars on fruits. Cucumber beetles transmit bacterial wilt and cucumber mosaic virus, which cause plant death. Cucumber ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Spotted and striped cucumber beetles Q: My seedling cucumber leaves have some small holes in them, and I noticed some small bugs ...

After all the work involved in starting your garden and the research you've put into learning the mistakes to avoid when planting garden cucumbers, it's devastating to watch them shrivel up and die ...

When I was at Kingwood Center recently, some folks asked me about what was going on with their cucumbers and I did give them some ideas as to what to do. The information for the cucumber can be used ...

Sometimes things happen in the garden when you least expect it. Last week, we had a major outbreak of spotted cucumber beetles. They were not in the vegetable garden where you would expect. Instead, ...

The first striped cucumber beetles of the season have finally showed up in my garden. These bright and happily colored pests cause a lot of damage in the garden. Although cucumbers are their preferred ...

Cucumber and squash production is in full swing in the garden, but there is a key pest that can affect the yield and quality of the fruit. The striped cucumber beetle (Acalymma vittatumare) can be a ...

Keep your eyes open for the striped cucumber beetle. This insect is a pest in home gardens and attacks cucumbers, squash, melons and pumpkins. These bugs generally occur in low numbers from year to ...

Now that fall is waning into winter, it is time for many of us to reflect on our garden successes and failures. I often find that I learn more from my garden failures and battles than I do from my ...