Protect your cucumbers, cantaloupe, squash, and pumpkins from cucumber beetles and the plant disease they can spread. If you ...

Both striped and spotted cucumber beetles can transmit bacterial wilt disease ... so in a small squash patch, manual control should be enough for control. Full-grown larvae or pupae overwinter in the ...

For cucumber, gourd, and melon plants, that pest is the cucumber beetle. These insects come in two varieties: striped (Acalymma vittatum) and spotted (Diabrotica undecimpunctata). Both types feed ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 71, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), pp. 78-83 (6 pages) Exposure of newly emerged spotted cucumber beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi) females to photophases of 12 and 13 hr ...