A few weeks ago a friend on Facebook posted a picture of a squash bug or Anasa tritis. Seems he was scouting his garden and found the insects on his squash plants. Squash bug has a snout it inserts in ...

Squash bugs take root on the undersides of leaves or near the crown of the plant, where they’ll lay clusters of oval-shaped, reddish, copper-brown eggs. If you pride yourself on growing your own ...

Squash bugs are one of the most destructive insect pests in the garden. They can do serious damage to all plants in the cucurbit family, which includes winter squash such as acorn and butternut, ...

Squash bugs are common pests that can cause your squash, pumpkins, and melons to wilt and die. Rotating crops, using straw mulch, and adding companion plants to the garden are all great ways to ...

If you seem to have squash bugs every year, scout for squash bug eggs at least a few times a week. Egg clusters are usually found where two leaf veins meet. Squash bug eggs are most often laid on the ...

Many insects plague the vegetable gardener, but few are as lethal as the squash bug and the cucumber beetle. Plants may die from the squash bugs' continual feeding or from the bacterial wilt that ...

Sophia Bender, 9, center, plays bouncy-ball roller hockey with Whitney Guitar, 6, right, and Rheagan Guitar, 8, left, while enjoying the warm weather on Wednesday at the Arboretum in Louisville. When ...

Hi, Sue. Last year gray squash-eating bugs appeared in my garden around the kubocha squash vines. I read that applications of a Neem oil-water mixture sprayed on both sides of the leaves and vines ...

I just came in from the garden checking out my zucchini plants and found a couple of squash bugs. I think I have quoted the old saying "know thy enemy," and although it is an old wartime quote, it is ...

The bulk of the regular season planting is over, and now we’re in the growing phase and early harvest phase. With the plants growing, more plant pests show up. One highly susceptible plant is squash.