Once moths appear along with the yellow flowers start this process. Use a small sharp awl like tool on a Swiss Army knife to take a small plug out of the squash stalk stem in several places (as many as 5 initially) starting at the ground level. Then using a pumpup sprayer, good spray bottle or meat marinade injector, inject a Bt solution into the squash stem. Any borers will succumb once they eat a little. Bt is an organic pesticide. It is primarily used to control chewing larva like cabbage looper and the like, by spraying or dusting the plants. Very effective and safe. Also spray and or dust the stem area of the squash plant with the Bt, which will kill the little larva as they attempt to eat their way into the stalk. Traps are another method, like the one you demonstrated here. Yellow "Solo" cups on a stake or any yellow material smeared with Tanglefoot or the yellow sticky traps, will catch the moths and alert when to start injecting. Bt is Bacillus thuringiensis, here is one brand, Southern AG Thuricide BT Caterpillar Control. Sometimes the big box stores carry it but a good feed store that has gardening supplies will.
Bern Kondret I just started using BT a few weeks ago. I found that a few plants had been bored into so I injected them right away. The plants are holding on so far!
Hello, sorry I don't know your name. I am Ross Murphy of Shawnee, Kansas, a gardener with much useful experience I manage a three-acre Community Garden and 15 to 18 families grow much of their fresh food here. First, the Roly-polies. Don't ever revile them; welcome them. They are extremely beneficial to your garden. They never eat any growing plant, what they do is consume garden wastes, even wood, digest it and return it to your garden as fertilizer. Their power and usefulness can hardly be imagined. Let me give you a good example. Some years ago, when my family were growing up here, we had a small family flock of hens, and a rooser, a real necessity. Neighbors wanted to buy eggs so gradually our flock grew to 250, plus 15 roosters. One day, I truck rolled by carrying ground up tree trunks and branches, probably ten tons of wood chips. I ran out and stopped the driver. He had to drive to Leavenworth to dump this in the landfill. I told him he could dump in my garden, which was like rubies or emeralds as he had a round trip of 70 miles. The next day he had an equal amount, two gigantic mounds of the wood. As our hens ran free-range, I put chicken wire fence around them Soon the first roly Polies arrived and went to work, eating the wood. The population grew to thousands, then probably to millions. They ate every day, all freezing winter too. At the end of two years the mounds of wood chips was reduced to three feet high of nitrogen, phosphorous and Potassium, the three elements of fertilizer. I didn't have to pay them anything. Now, that spring, I took down the chicken fence and let the chickens go at it. They like to scrape and scratch and they did this so they could feast on the roly-polies. This reduced my chicken feed costs greatly and the eggs were wonderful! They scattered that fertilizer over a huge area and I didn't have to pay them anything. That amount of very rich fertilizer would have cost me dearly at Home Depot, and the stuff at HD is 80 per cent filler. Next the squash vein maggot. The eggs are laid by a pretty dark fly, about half an inch. They have dark bodies and orange swept-back wings. They start in as soon as your squash, of whatever variety, first get their leaves. So you have to act quickly to stop them before they lay their tiny eggs. The eggs hatch and the larvae begin to chew their way into the stems, at ground level. They enter the stem when they are the size of fly maggots. At this time you can see their excreta at the bottom of the stem; it looks like fine sawdust. At this moment you have a chance to kill them, by taking a long needle and stabbing it around in the stem, killing some of them. This is only chancy though, so now I will tell you the exact, perfect, never fail way to destroy them. I am the man with THE PLAN I think I am the only person who knows this and now there will be ALL OF YOU. About 20 or so years ago, in the German state of Thuringia, was discovered an amazing thing: I was a bacteria, a microbe, that if it were eaten by a corn ear worm, for example, the bacteria, upon reaching the gut, starts to multiply, dividing and dividing again, you've seen movies of cell division before, I feel sure. They multiply so fast, with so many that the will burst the stomach of the worm grub and destroy it. What a brilliant discovery! Now you can buy it from any garden shop or hardware store, in powder or liquid form. I have used it for years and it is very effectived. So I bought some of the liquid and painted the stems of the squash plants so the larvae would eat it and die. This was only partly successful, because maybe the grub didn't eat it, or the rain washed it away. And then I had my serendipitous moment, my creative solution. Here it is: When the leaves start on your squash, go to your pharmacy and buy---I think it is size 50--hypodermic needle. The price is about fifty cents. Not the kind for injecting insulin, the needle won't push the watery powder through. With the larger needle you can suck up some of the BT, bacillus thuringiensis, in liquid form. Inject a small amount of the bacillus at the bottom of the stem of your plants. You only have to do this once; the bacillus will take up residency inside the stem. Now, when the grub eats his way into the stem, before her ever gets through into the interior, BT wiill overwhelm him and kill him ded, ded, ded. BT is harmless to people, and it will never move as high as the blossoms or the squash the plant produces.No aluminum foil, no panty hose, no band-aids or stretch adhesive needed at all. It is harmless to bees and other pollinators. I have had many careers in my lifetime: Newspaper Editor of a Hollywood weekly newspaper; computer diagnostician and repairman, in Los Angeles; electrical engineer in a great laboratory in Upstate New York, Inventor; one of the top IBM computer salesmen in America, professional, award-winning free--lance writer, business columnist for Washington Post/Newsweek for six years. I also invented a garden weeding tool now in use, not only in the US, but also in five foureign countries. You hold it in your hand and it kills weeds forever. I also invented a little circuit and some microprogramming that will make a gigantic computer system includiing all its outside devices, diagnose itself in less that half a minute. My invention is used in every pc computer system in the world, more that three billion, plus now in every cell phone. The royalties paid to IBM for the use of my circuit has earned three billion dollars for IBM. I wish I could continue to tell you about how to rid your garden of the Squash Stinkbug, but enough for now. Ross Murphy, Shawnee, Kansas, suprwedr@sbcglobal.net.
For the 2nd year I have spread radish seeds around my squash and let them grow up among each other. I tried Cherry Bell and White Icicle last year in two different patches and just Cherry Bell this year. No vine borers last year and none so far this year, though I have noticed some squash bugs (the stink bug looking insect.)
Thanks for the tip! This year I grew dill in my squashes and I’ve had barely any squash bugs. It’s a deterrent for them. I’m impressed with how well it works.
@@janicejurgensen2122 until I started using radishes I never got more than 2 squash picked before the plant wilted away. I still get those bugs that look like stink bugs but not the vine borers that kill the plant
Great video. Thank you. We had quite a rough time with the squash bores up here in Ct. Learning experience to say the least. We saved our precious pumpkins, squash & zucchini as the bores work fast . We will win next time. If you find one of your vines swollen with bores, watch some of the last ditch saving efforts you must do to save a a prized plant. It's does work. Miserable bores. May your harvest be plenty.
Yes, those borers are tricky. I've gotten pretty good at fending them off, but it takes diligence in inspecting your plants almost daily. It can be tough! Every year we get better and better at it though, right?
I watched the Old Alabama gardener and he wraps the large part of the stalj in tin foil when he plants them out. Watch his video about it. I was having an issue and started usi g BT. It is working so far
I just wanted to say you have a beautiful smile. Every year its a battle to keep the bugs off my plant babies. I tried the aluminum foil and it worked on my Zucchini but not the Squash they just went up higher on the plant. Gawd I hate those buggers!
Thank you so much! I am at war with these Vine Borer Moths, and Cucumber Beatles on my zucchini, spaghetti squash, and pumkins. I just purchased 3 sets, and subscribed to your channel. Thank you again! 🙏🏼
I’ve never heard of those traps. Squash vine borers already got to out squash before I got the stems wrapped. I’m going to start some more seeds for another crop after these vines quit. I’m going to get a couple of those traps, too. Thanks!
The best defense is netting! You have to keep the vine boring mites off of the plant completely off of the plant. I have watched vine Borer moths Lay eggs for five and 6 inches up the stem close to the leaf even! Unless you can check every stem twice a day every single day and make sure you don’t miss any of the eggs… You need to shroud the plant in a protective netting. They make a white very light weight netting that you can completely cover the plant with and then I sent it up around the pot so that the vine bore mouth cannot get anywhere near the flower lay eggs for five and 6 inches up the stem close to the leaf even! Unless you can check every stem twice a day every single day and make sure you don’t miss any of the eggs… You need to shroud the plant in a protective netting. They make a white very lightweight netting that you can completely cover the plant with and then cinch it up around the pot so that the vine bore mouth cannot get anywhere near the plants.
I had good luck with foil about two inches into the soil and 6 inches up the stem. But I'm increasing my squash crop and adding Delicata which I hear is more attractive to the vine borer so I want to do some extra steps.
squash bugs have just about destroyed my cucumbers. I go out in the morning and pick at least 20 in the morning and 20 in the evening. I put them in soapy water .. I have not had this problem before. I usually use my own compost . This year I bought compost in bags. I'm thinking the eggs was in the soil.
Have u been checking for eggs on underside of leaves? Copper colored masses. They hatch in ten days, if they were in your compost they very likely would have hatched before you bought it. Their food is leaves n fruit so i just can’t see why momma would lay them in your compost. Sadly we gotta investigate these plants closely every few days for both of these terrible pests. U may be able to catch them in their nymph stage before they get all over it. I did surgery removing vine borers on my zucchini plant several days ago. I saw evidence of damage but caught them in time before they killed it. I hope i got em all out. You could grow the seedless cucumber in a mini greenhouse nxt yr, they dont need pollination. Good luck. 🙂 Oh, “they say” to burn ur infected plants when u pull em up. Sad.
It was something I saw someone else try to keep the borer moth from laying the eggs at the base. They are just plastic cups. I do think it helped and I didn’t do it this year (this video is last year). I’m wishing I had some them now.
I had 2 traps and caught one borer. I had eggs all over my plants. There were tons of some othef bug in there and the borers were definitely interested but they didn't fall for it. I am not too sure it doesn't actually bring more to your yard.
I wonder if using the fold up mouse glue traps, spray paint yellow and hang about 6" above ground with a piece of coat hanger, they are inexpensive and can get them everywhere?
I have alway used "yellow cups", and these works for aphids and borers, but why I have done is coasting the outside with vaseline... They stick to it....
Pheromone traps can attract their target species to your garden from far and wide, which may be a liability--you could end up with more of the pest. Perhaps depending on the species, they can also end up attracting only one sex. If your trap only attracts male borer moths, then it likely won't prevent any eggs from being laid, but at least it wouldn't do the additional damage that could result from attracting more females. I haven't usually had huge problems with borers, though I do see that vines are infested when I pull them at the end of the season. I may start controlling them next year. Trap cropping is likely to be the first thing I attempt.
@@effieinglish I'm not sure what you're getting at there--you might need to explain. If you speaking about using a trap crop, yes, that will attract the borers to the garden. But they'll be attracted to specific plants that I don't care about rather than the ones I do. (And it did work last year, by the way. The blue hubbard vines I planted as a trap crop were the only ones I observed being infested with borers).
How is it going with the traps? And just FYI I have found SVB eggs on the tops and bottoms of leaves, and yesterday I found an egg right on a female squash blossom. They will also lay them on pretty much any stem not just at the base. But I see it makes sense to protect the base bc that's where it would be the hardest place to see any eggs or damage before it's too late. If you are still having good results with traps though, I think I'll get some?
The traps are good but not fool proof. I’m finding the eggs on the stems and blossoms also. I do think I’ve held them off for a good portion of the season though using the traps, foil and cups around the base. I’ve only lost one plant out of twelve, though I have two that are struggling a bit. I’ve moved to using BT and that’s helping.
Lil Urban Farm got my traps today. My garden is tiny compared to yours. 4 zucchini, 1 spaghetti, 1 acorn - so I'm really fighting not to lose anything. I've resorted to growing them vertically, covering them with wide tulle from fabric store and hand pollination. Still ended up extracting a fat SVB from a zuc this morning. But I'm a teacher with summers off. This is my first time ever gardening. Seems like I picked the hardest crop EVER.
The squash bug (or stink bug) is what lays the amber colored eggs. It's a totally different insect from the squash vine borer, which is a diurnal moth (looks more like a wasp) that lays its eggs inside a stem. The larva eating their way out kills the plant.
@@pricklypear7516 They both have Amber eggs. The squash bugs typically lay football shaped eggs in clusters where the borer eggs are round and flat and more singular, tho there can be a couple close together. The borer moth lays the eggs on stems and the base, sometimes even the flowers. They hatch and eat into the squash. When done, they burrow underground to transform and hatch next year into more moths.
I find eggs every 3 inches up my vines too. everyone says it's one egg at the base.. I can't wrap the whole darn thing in tinfoil. I started spraying bt and injecting 4 cc's into each stem and I've caught 8 vine borerers trying to escape. no squash plants have died since I started bt injections! veggie that I was losing one plant a day to them
Since you posted this video, what are your results? How are your squash holding up? Our whole crop has been destroyed. Thanks for the video!! Good luck...
I went away for a week and came home yesterday, fearful the worst since I couldn’t watch them. All my squash plants look beautiful and there’s about 7-8 borer moths in the trap! I think it’s working!!!
They act like a little collar to keep the moths from landing on the stems at the base, which is where they take out the squash often. I have also found eggs higher up on leaves and stems, but they take your plants out quickly if they lay at the base.
@@l.whalen240 Not generally. It's too tight of a fit. They will lay in other places tho, but they love to target the base of the squash. This year I found upwards of 7 eggs on one plant at soil level.
It's hard to see but that doesn't really look like a vine borer to me. It looks like a moth in the trap but svb do not really look like a moth, they look more like a wasp. I could totally be wrong though because it's hard to see.
The pheromone trap with sticky inside is a good idea. The Failure to print it in Yellow is a colossal Failure. Someone should contact the manufacturer.
This video is 2 years old and it was when I first started videos posting videos. I was walking through the entire process so people could see and experience exactly what I was opening and learning as I went. In the future, if something is painful to watch... you don't have to watch and make mean, unconstructive comments.
Once moths appear along with the yellow flowers start this process.
Use a small sharp awl like tool on a Swiss Army knife to take a small plug out of the squash stalk stem in several places (as many as 5 initially) starting at the ground level. Then using a pumpup sprayer, good spray bottle or meat marinade injector, inject a Bt solution into the squash stem. Any borers will succumb once they eat a little. Bt is an organic pesticide. It is primarily used to control chewing larva like cabbage looper and the like, by spraying or dusting the plants. Very effective and safe. Also spray and or dust the stem area of the squash plant with the Bt, which will kill the little larva as they attempt to eat their way into the stalk.
Traps are another method, like the one you demonstrated here. Yellow "Solo" cups on a stake or any yellow material smeared with Tanglefoot or the yellow sticky traps, will catch the moths and alert when to start injecting.
Bt is Bacillus thuringiensis, here is one brand, Southern AG Thuricide BT Caterpillar Control. Sometimes the big box stores carry it but a good feed store that has gardening supplies will.
Bern Kondret I just started using BT a few weeks ago. I found that a few plants had been bored into so I injected them right away. The plants are holding on so far!
Bt works great but you must be diligent.
Hello, sorry I don't know your name. I am Ross Murphy of Shawnee, Kansas, a gardener with
much useful experience I manage a three-acre Community Garden and 15 to 18 families grow
much of their fresh food here.
First, the Roly-polies. Don't ever revile them; welcome them. They are extremely beneficial to
your garden. They never eat any growing plant, what they do is consume garden wastes,
even wood, digest it and return it to your garden as fertilizer. Their power and usefulness
can hardly be imagined. Let me give you a good example. Some years ago, when
my family were growing up here, we had a small family flock of hens, and a rooser, a real
necessity. Neighbors wanted to buy eggs so gradually our flock grew to 250, plus 15
roosters.
One day, I truck rolled by carrying ground up tree trunks and branches, probably ten tons of
wood chips. I ran out and stopped the driver. He had to drive to Leavenworth to dump this
in the landfill. I told him he could dump in my garden, which was like rubies or emeralds
as he had a round trip of 70 miles. The next day he had an equal amount, two gigantic
mounds of the wood. As our hens ran free-range, I put chicken wire fence around them
Soon the first roly Polies arrived and went to work, eating the wood. The population grew
to thousands, then probably to millions. They ate every day, all freezing winter too. At the
end of two years the mounds of wood chips was reduced to three feet high of nitrogen,
phosphorous and Potassium, the three elements of fertilizer.
I didn't have to pay them anything. Now, that spring, I took down the chicken fence and
let the chickens go at it. They like to scrape and scratch and they did this so they could
feast on the roly-polies. This reduced my chicken feed costs greatly and the eggs were
wonderful! They scattered that fertilizer over a huge area and I didn't have to pay them
anything. That amount of very rich fertilizer would have cost me dearly at Home Depot, and
the stuff at HD is 80 per cent filler.
Next the squash vein maggot. The eggs are laid by a pretty dark fly, about half an inch.
They have dark bodies and orange swept-back wings. They start in as soon as your
squash, of whatever variety, first get their leaves. So you have to act quickly to stop them
before they lay their tiny eggs. The eggs hatch and the larvae begin to chew their way
into the stems, at ground level. They enter the stem when they are the size of fly maggots.
At this time you can see their excreta at the bottom of the stem; it looks like fine sawdust.
At this moment you have a chance to kill them, by taking a long needle and stabbing it
around in the stem, killing some of them. This is only chancy though, so now I will tell
you the exact, perfect, never fail way to destroy them.
I am the man with THE PLAN
I think I am the only person who knows this and now there will be ALL OF YOU. About 20 or
so years ago, in the German state of Thuringia, was discovered an amazing thing: I was a
bacteria, a microbe, that if it were eaten by a corn ear worm, for example, the bacteria, upon
reaching the gut, starts to multiply, dividing and dividing again, you've seen movies of cell
division before, I feel sure. They multiply so fast, with so many that the will burst the stomach
of the worm grub and destroy it.
What a brilliant discovery! Now you can buy it from any garden shop or hardware store, in
powder or liquid form. I have used it for years and it is very effectived. So I bought some of
the liquid and painted the stems of the squash plants so the larvae would eat it and die.
This was only partly successful, because maybe the grub didn't eat it, or the rain washed it
away.
And then I had my serendipitous moment, my creative solution. Here it is: When the leaves
start on your squash, go to your pharmacy and buy---I think it is size 50--hypodermic needle.
The price is about fifty cents. Not the kind for injecting insulin, the needle won't push the watery
powder through. With the larger needle you can suck up some of the BT, bacillus thuringiensis,
in liquid form. Inject a small amount of the bacillus at the bottom of the stem of your plants.
You only have to do this once; the bacillus will take up residency inside the stem. Now, when
the grub eats his way into the stem, before her ever gets through into the interior, BT wiill
overwhelm him and kill him ded, ded, ded.
BT is harmless to people, and it will never move as high as the blossoms or the squash the
plant produces.No aluminum foil, no panty hose, no band-aids or stretch adhesive needed
at all. It is harmless to bees and other pollinators.
I have had many careers in my lifetime: Newspaper Editor of a Hollywood weekly newspaper;
computer diagnostician and repairman, in Los Angeles; electrical engineer in a great laboratory
in Upstate New York, Inventor; one of the top IBM computer salesmen in America, professional,
award-winning free--lance writer, business columnist for Washington Post/Newsweek for six
years. I also invented a garden weeding tool now in use, not only in the US, but also in five
foureign countries. You hold it in your hand and it kills weeds forever.
I also invented a little circuit and some microprogramming that will make a gigantic computer
system includiing all its outside devices, diagnose itself in less that half a minute. My invention
is used in every pc computer system in the world, more that three billion, plus now in every cell
phone. The royalties paid to IBM for the use of my circuit has earned three billion dollars for IBM.
I wish I could continue to tell you about how to rid your garden of the Squash Stinkbug, but enough
for now. Ross Murphy, Shawnee, Kansas, suprwedr@sbcglobal.net.
TL; dr
How early would you inject BT in the stems?
If you use the yellow containers with water this year, add a small bit of soap to break the water's surface tension. Bugs drown instead of swimming.
For the 2nd year I have spread radish seeds around my squash and let them grow up among each other. I tried Cherry Bell and White Icicle last year in two different patches and just Cherry Bell this year. No vine borers last year and none so far this year, though I have noticed some squash bugs (the stink bug looking insect.)
Thanks for the tip! This year I grew dill in my squashes and I’ve had barely any squash bugs. It’s a deterrent for them. I’m impressed with how well it works.
Did u have squash bugs before?
@@janicejurgensen2122 until I started using radishes I never got more than 2 squash picked before the plant wilted away. I still get those bugs that look like stink bugs but not the vine borers that kill the plant
Great video. Thank you. We had quite a rough time with the squash bores up here in Ct. Learning experience to say the least. We saved our precious pumpkins, squash & zucchini as the bores work fast . We will win next time. If you find one of your vines swollen with bores, watch some of the last ditch saving efforts you must do to save a a prized plant. It's does work. Miserable bores.
May your harvest be plenty.
Yes, those borers are tricky. I've gotten pretty good at fending them off, but it takes diligence in inspecting your plants almost daily. It can be tough! Every year we get better and better at it though, right?
I watched the Old Alabama gardener and he wraps the large part of the stalj in tin foil when he plants them out. Watch his video about it. I was having an issue and started usi g BT. It is working so far
I just wanted to say you have a beautiful smile. Every year its a battle to keep the bugs off my plant babies. I tried the aluminum foil and it worked on my Zucchini but not the Squash they just went up higher on the plant. Gawd I hate those buggers!
Thank you so much! I am at war with these Vine Borer Moths, and Cucumber Beatles on my zucchini, spaghetti squash, and pumkins. I just purchased 3 sets, and subscribed to your channel. Thank you again! 🙏🏼
Cucumber beetles suck as well!! I have very few this year but they still killed a cuc plant.
That trap is working!
I like your multiple ones of defense.
The Vine Borer killed my pumpkins last year.
Instead of cups I’ve been using elastic self adhesive bandages around the vine and it seems to be working
I’ve never heard of those traps. Squash vine borers already got to out squash before I got the stems wrapped. I’m going to start some more seeds for another crop after these vines quit. I’m going to get a couple of those traps, too. Thanks!
The best defense is netting! You have to keep the vine boring mites off of the plant completely off of the plant. I have watched vine Borer moths Lay eggs for five and 6 inches up the stem close to the leaf even! Unless you can check every stem twice a day every single day and make sure you don’t miss any of the eggs… You need to shroud the plant in a protective netting. They make a white very light weight netting that you can completely cover the plant with and then I sent it up around the pot so that the vine bore mouth cannot get anywhere near the flower lay eggs for five and 6 inches up the stem close to the leaf even! Unless you can check every stem twice a day every single day and make sure you don’t miss any of the eggs… You need to shroud the plant in a protective netting. They make a white very lightweight netting that you can completely cover the plant with and then cinch it up around the pot so that the vine bore mouth cannot get anywhere near the plants.
The only problem with this is the bees and other pollinators also can't get to the plant; have to hand pollinate the plants!
This was excellent I didn’t know that existed I just ordered some!
melittia curcubitae is a squash bores moth. Is that whats in that little brown thing that you got out of the packet that you put in the trap?
Handsome dog
I had good luck with foil about two inches into the soil and 6 inches up the stem. But I'm increasing my squash crop and adding Delicata which I hear is more attractive to the vine borer so I want to do some extra steps.
Cool..I will definitely order some!!!..been fighting with cabage moths..caught 4..spraying with BT and picking worms..thankyou👍👍🤗
Wish I could have saw this video last year. But now that I have, I will be getting them for my squash and my other crops this season.🤙🏽
squash bugs have just about destroyed my cucumbers. I go out in the morning and pick at least 20 in the morning and 20 in the evening. I put them in soapy water .. I have not had this problem before. I usually use my own compost . This year I bought compost in bags. I'm thinking the eggs was in the soil.
Have u been checking for eggs on underside of leaves? Copper colored masses. They hatch in ten days, if they were in your compost they very likely would have hatched before you bought it. Their food is leaves n fruit so i just can’t see why momma would lay them in your compost. Sadly we gotta investigate these plants closely every few days for both of these terrible pests. U may be able to catch them in their nymph stage before they get all over it.
I did surgery removing vine borers on my zucchini plant several days ago. I saw evidence of damage but caught them in time before they killed it. I hope i got em all out. You could grow the seedless cucumber in a mini greenhouse nxt yr, they dont need pollination. Good luck. 🙂
Oh, “they say” to burn ur infected plants when u pull em up. Sad.
vine borer and squash bugs are two different species
Hey! What are the collars? I’m going to do tin foil as well.
It was something I saw someone else try to keep the borer moth from laying the eggs at the base. They are just plastic cups. I do think it helped and I didn’t do it this year (this video is last year). I’m wishing I had some them now.
I had 2 traps and caught one borer. I had eggs all over my plants. There were tons of some othef bug in there and the borers were definitely interested but they didn't fall for it. I am not too sure it doesn't actually bring more to your yard.
I wonder if using the fold up mouse glue traps, spray paint yellow and hang about 6" above ground with a piece of coat hanger, they are inexpensive and can get them everywhere?
I needed these a month ago!! Vine borers are terrible! Thank you for sharing! NEW SUBSCRIBER HERE 🌻
I wish I could just buy that pheromone. I tried the yellow water traps and caught everything but the svb.
I agree! Have you looking online for the pheromones?
Did you catch squash bugs?
I have alway used "yellow cups", and these works for aphids and borers, but why I have done is coasting the outside with vaseline... They stick to it....
I may try that! Thanks!
Pheromone traps can attract their target species to your garden from far and wide, which may be a liability--you could end up with more of the pest. Perhaps depending on the species, they can also end up attracting only one sex. If your trap only attracts male borer moths, then it likely won't prevent any eggs from being laid, but at least it wouldn't do the additional damage that could result from attracting more females. I haven't usually had huge problems with borers, though I do see that vines are infested when I pull them at the end of the season. I may start controlling them next year. Trap cropping is likely to be the first thing I attempt.
...Which... would attract... the target... species.... to your... garden...
@@effieinglish I'm not sure what you're getting at there--you might need to explain. If you speaking about using a trap crop, yes, that will attract the borers to the garden. But they'll be attracted to specific plants that I don't care about rather than the ones I do. (And it did work last year, by the way. The blue hubbard vines I planted as a trap crop were the only ones I observed being infested with borers).
Since I only have two plants I’m gonna try the yellow containers with soap and the water tip so thanks for that comment
I wonder if moth traps would work equally as well and less expensive I enjoyed your video immensely very informative
What do you think about them
Bees will get stuck in the traps too....?
Will try dill
I'm concerned that good insects or birds might get in there? Thoughts?
Thanks for this video!
I’ve been using them for years and never had that happen. :)
Please tell us how to do the cups at squash base?
How is it going with the traps? And just FYI I have found SVB eggs on the tops and bottoms of leaves, and yesterday I found an egg right on a female squash blossom. They will also lay them on pretty much any stem not just at the base. But I see it makes sense to protect the base bc that's where it would be the hardest place to see any eggs or damage before it's too late. If you are still having good results with traps though, I think I'll get some?
The traps are good but not fool proof. I’m finding the eggs on the stems and blossoms also. I do think I’ve held them off for a good portion of the season though using the traps, foil and cups around the base. I’ve only lost one plant out of twelve, though I have two that are struggling a bit. I’ve moved to using BT and that’s helping.
Lil Urban Farm got my traps today. My garden is tiny compared to yours.
4 zucchini, 1 spaghetti, 1 acorn - so I'm really fighting not to lose anything. I've resorted to growing them vertically, covering them with wide tulle from fabric store and hand pollination. Still ended up extracting a fat SVB from a zuc this morning. But I'm a teacher with summers off. This is my first time ever gardening. Seems like I picked the hardest crop EVER.
The squash bug (or stink bug) is what lays the amber colored eggs. It's a totally different insect from the squash vine borer, which is a diurnal moth (looks more like a wasp) that lays its eggs inside a stem. The larva eating their way out kills the plant.
@@pricklypear7516 They both have Amber eggs. The squash bugs typically lay football shaped eggs in clusters where the borer eggs are round and flat and more singular, tho there can be a couple close together. The borer moth lays the eggs on stems and the base, sometimes even the flowers. They hatch and eat into the squash. When done, they burrow underground to transform and hatch next year into more moths.
I find eggs every 3 inches up my vines too. everyone says it's one egg at the base.. I can't wrap the whole darn thing in tinfoil. I started spraying bt and injecting 4 cc's into each stem and I've caught 8 vine borerers trying to escape. no squash plants have died since I started bt injections! veggie that I was losing one plant a day to them
Wondering if the bees might get in it. We need the bees. Did you catch any bees
I’ve never caught a bee in them. They aren’t attracted to the pheromone.
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Ok thanks. I might have to do this
How far did you put the cups in the ground?
Probably about an inch.
Since you posted this video, what are your results? How are your squash holding up? Our whole crop has been destroyed. Thanks for the video!! Good luck...
I went away for a week and came home yesterday, fearful the worst since I couldn’t watch them. All my squash plants look beautiful and there’s about 7-8 borer moths in the trap! I think it’s working!!!
@@LilUrbanFarm Thank you! My traps have only 2 but it's all about growth-not death... Thanks for the reply!
Your squashed are so beautiful! I can't t even plant them in summer anymore... Do you actually trapped the vine bored moths?
It traps the males. Some females still lay eggs on the plants tho. But I do think it helps keep the population down. :)
you can use light and water to trap the squash borer
tried a yellow bucket but it was killing the bees also so we had to remove it.
That is amazing where did you order those
I wonder if that trap will trap bees also? I will hate to do that!
I've never caught a bee in it. They are not attracted to it. I have caught little flies though.
She does like me reading instructions as I go but it does work better to read complete instructions before starting.
I wonder if tanglefoot (for tree insects) would work with lures if they sell them separately. I hate svb.
another poster on another video begged everyone not to use tanglefoot because it kills birds. I love birds.
Where did you get these traps ? I looked on amazon & nadda ....
I found them here: www.vivagrow.com/vivatrap-squash-vine-borer-moth-trap-lure-2-pack/
What was the little cups for
They act like a little collar to keep the moths from landing on the stems at the base, which is where they take out the squash often. I have also found eggs higher up on leaves and stems, but they take your plants out quickly if they lay at the base.
@@LilUrbanFarm I don't understand how the cup works to keep the moth out. Doesn't the moth crawl into the cup to the stem?
@@l.whalen240 Not generally. It's too tight of a fit. They will lay in other places tho, but they love to target the base of the squash. This year I found upwards of 7 eggs on one plant at soil level.
I just moved my zucchini into the greenhouse as a last attempt. Good info thanks.
You let one get away at 6:34
I think Brenner is meditating! Lol
Was that the year you won? Lol looking for ANYTHING to help combat these guys.
Yes, I had a ton of squash and zucchini, tho the borers did eventually take out the plants. But I held them off a good long while.
It's hard to see but that doesn't really look like a vine borer to me. It looks like a moth in the trap but svb do not really look like a moth, they look more like a wasp. I could totally be wrong though because it's hard to see.
The Vine Borer is classified as a moth. It looks like a wasp when it flies, but it is a moth and it’s butt is kinda furry.
They do work - I killed like 15 but STILL lost most of my zucchini and an acorn squash
The pheromone trap with sticky inside is a good idea. The Failure to print it in Yellow is a colossal Failure.
Someone should contact the manufacturer.
Agree completely! Tho it does still work.
great info
Very cool thank you
Pheromones: huge mistake, unless you set the trap a mile away.
Wrong the smell the flowers and dead leaves put off scent. Please do some research
Brilliant thank you so much! Great tips
Cool
I appreciate the informations a LOT! Please plan out the video in advance, this was painful to watch!
This video is 2 years old and it was when I first started videos posting videos. I was walking through the entire process so people could see and experience exactly what I was opening and learning as I went. In the future, if something is painful to watch... you don't have to watch and make mean, unconstructive comments.