{"id":2324,"date":"2011-07-08T08:24:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2011-11-15T17:59:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T22:59:04","slug":"cucumber-beetles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/cucumber-beetles\/","title":{"rendered":"Cucumber Beetles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cucumber beetles&#8230;. mere mention strikes fear in the hearts of vegetable gardeners, countrywide. Or, at least, it should.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2341\" style=\"margin: 3px; border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"cuke_beetle1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cuke_beetle1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>They attack flowers and ornamentals as well as cucumbers. In fact, over 270 plants in 29 families fall prey to this little trouble-maker.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, I consulted Golden Harvest Organics online library. It was fascinating to learn (among other things) that the beetles actually transmit bacterial diseases which overwinter in their intestines, infecting plants in their earliest of stages.<\/p>\n<p>According to ghorganics.com, the striped cucumber beetles do the most damage to the cucumber families or cucurbits, appearing a good four weeks before their spotted relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from hitting potatoes, squash, asparagus, tomatoes, fruits, and melons, they go after corn with a vengeance. Larvae infestation will impact the root system so forcefully, the corn appears to be drought-stricken. Adult beetles burrow into the silks when pollination is due to occur\u2014resulting in \u201cpoor grain set.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2343 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 3px; border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"cuke_beetle2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cuke_beetle2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>There are repellent plants which could be planted to deter the beetle and various other organic methods. (Try placing aluminum foil beneath plants to reflect light\u2014the beetles prefer the underside of leaves because of the shade.)<\/p>\n<p>David prefers the route of \u201cintegrated pest management\u201d (IPM). Which is our very next blog entry&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cucumber beetles&#8230;. mere mention strikes fear in the hearts of vegetable gardeners, countrywide. Or, at least, it should. They attack flowers and ornamentals as well as cucumbers. In fact, over 270 plants in 29 families fall prey to this little trouble-maker. To learn more, I consulted Golden Harvest Organics online library. It was fascinating to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[53,196,35,18,195,176,19,36,39],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-corn","tag-cucumber-beetles","tag-family","tag-farming","tag-garden-pests","tag-gardening","tag-hobbyfarm","tag-pennsylvania","tag-vegetable-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}