#squashvineborer — Public Fediverse posts
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More squash vine borer damage! First hint is this droopy leaf. Look on the underside and down the stem for small holes and/or lumps of frass. Sometimes you can extract the Squash Vine Borer and save the leaf, but this one is too far gone. Often the moth lays an egg right at the base of the leaf like this one did and you have to scrape it off before it digs into the vine and kills the leaf.
#vegetablegardening #gardening #growyourown #veggies #zucchini #squashbugs #svb #pests #squashvineborer
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Wish I’d taken a better “before” picture so you could see the small light brown hole near the end of the zucchini leaf. Cut open you can see the small squash vine borer inside - white larva with a black head. This is a small one. Luckily no damage other than this leaf. #vegetablegardening #gardening #growyourown #veggies #zucchini #squashbugs #svb #pests #squashvineborer
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CW: Why I'm not planting winter squash
Last year I got next to nothing from my 3 delicata & 3 kabocha plants - besides a massive amount of greens for the compost pile. Why? Squash vine borer. Injecting the vines w/ Bt did not work as they infested solid parts of the stem base.
#Gardening #NorthCarolina #Zone7b #Cfhl #squash #pests #SquashVineBorer