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Pataskala,OH

Are there squash bug traps like the ones used for the squash vine borer ?

7/23/2010 11:57:51 AM

Massachusetts

these work great i have 15 dead borers in one trap and 8 in another, only been in the patches for 2 weeks! bottom of the page......

http://www.extremepumpkinstore.com/ecom-catshow/insect.html

7/23/2010 4:37:15 PM

Pataskala,OH

I meant squash bugs not squash borers.

7/23/2010 4:39:03 PM

Massachusetts

tom can get them for the squash bugs, i think it is the same trap ,but with a different lure.. , best to call him though.....if not try this site.....
http://www.greatlakesipm.com/glipmhome.html

7/23/2010 4:40:16 PM

Massachusetts

sorry , just trying to help, in mass we call them stink bugs.....

7/23/2010 4:41:11 PM

Pataskala,OH

Stink bug and Squash bug are two different pests even thought the names are interchangeable and they look alike.

Sink bug (Euschistis consperse)

Squash bug (Anasa nistis

7/23/2010 5:03:15 PM

Navarre,OH

And they both stink when smashed :P

7/23/2010 6:45:15 PM

Las Cruces NM

Sorry, I just can’t remain silient any longer! I’ve used the Japanese beetle pheromone traps and they really attract their target, and amazingly so! Within 10 seconds of opening the plastic piece with pheromones one it, I had hundreds of Japanese beetles swarming me. I must have managed to get some on me because they followed me and I could not escape them .. and they turned into thousands! It sounded like a hail storm as the beetles bounced off the house. The little plastic bag was filled in 5 minutes and after dumping the bag dozen of time in the next hour, it became clear to me I had to come up with something else. So I filled and placed a 5 gal bucket half full of sudsy detergent and water under the trap. That worked good but I still had to dump about every hour and I had accumulated over a knee deep pile of bugs in a day and it didn’t smell pretty! By about day three I couldn’t stand the stench of all the dead beetles and the smell was permanating the neighborhood so I took the trap down. The damage was done as they completely defoliated my grapes and cherry tree eating the leaf margins of every single leaf. Other plants were not as damaged but no plant was spared! The grapes did recover but the cherry tree did not. The garden center said there was no way Japanese beetles could do that much damage to my cherry tree -- I beg to differ. But you know it doesn’t stop there – the beetles lay their grubs and even my lawn went south and I had 4X milky spores down. Ther eis no exagerating here! While it made me sick to hear neighbors repetitively discuss how few Japanese beetles they had, what is worse is my wife watch the whole thing unfold from our deck and I have to live with the story for the rest of my life! I’ll certainly never use them again, but if you want to try them, my suggestion is give them as gifts to your neighbors up to a mile or more away and you'll not see the critters in your patch!

7/23/2010 7:30:42 PM

Www.extremepumpkinstore.com

SWdesert, you have some hard core badass bugs there...you can keep them..lol...I would try a shotgun!
I am currently using the SVB traps and Japanese Beetle traps with the dual lures and I have to tell ya, if I would have opened them and had bugs stalking me after a few mins, I would feel the same way.
I think your situation is unique and you do right not to use them if your particular situation is what you explained.
I have never heard of anyone that I know ever experiencing bugs like you describe, any power plants in your area?...(joking)

7/23/2010 9:35:36 PM

long Island

Wow! That's some story. Biblical proportions. I see you live in a desert, So did Pharaoh.

7/23/2010 10:11:57 PM

Las Cruces NM

First, that was when I lived in Germantown Maryland which does have a Japanese beetle problem. And to be clear, it didn’t take minutes, but rather just the time it takes to get lure out of the package and put it on the hook which is about 10 seconds. Pheromone is powerful stuff for sure – I'm convinced! But I doubt my case is special as that is just what happens when you attract all the millions of beetles, for miles around in an affected area, to a single location! I'm just suprised others don't mention such an experiance! Anyway, on a good note my experiance also tells me Japanese beetles does attack pumpkins but only after first devouring grape leaves, cherry leaves, and various blooms that they seem to prefer. But be smart and understand pheromone is an attractant so why would you want to attract target insects to the area you don't want them? Of course you don't! Further, studies show traps lure far more beetles than they actually trap. So then, In my case, I didn’t want Japanese beetles anywhere in my yard, period, so basically I had no business using the trap! For SBV you certainly don’t want them anywhere near your pumpkins so simply make sure traps are as far away from patch as possible! I saw other posts on this subject and I avoided them, but sorry, this was one post too many. Anyway, just keep SVB traps away from where you don't want the target insect.

7/24/2010 1:59:26 AM

Las Cruces NM

FWIW, I'm living in NM now and I haven't seen much of a bug problem here except for roaches - shezs, what ya expect, it a desert! And I don’t ever recall seeing a Japanese beetle here. Now we do have black widows, brown recluses, tarantulas (nice pick on one in my diary), several species of scorpions (bark scorpion in diary), and giant centipedes (baby in diary as they get bigger!)… but these are beneficial insects (sort of)-- and their diet must be roaches at least I don't see much else around for them to eat????

PS: people that live in the desert and grow AG's are cRaZy -- I have found no other explaination!

7/24/2010 2:00:29 AM

Lexington, Ky

I used four squash bug traps last year with little effect, I managed to catch one. The traps I used are made by the same company that sells the popular SVB trap sold by extremepumpkinstore. The traps must be in contact with a leaf which makes placing one properly somewhat difficult. I did not use them this year.

7/25/2010 10:05:28 AM

Colorado

Just looked at these comments. We produce insect lures and traps. There is no attractant/pheromone for squash bug (Anasa tristis). There is a pheromone for the SVB, a moth. Also different lures for different stink bugs. Also trap and lure for cucumber beetles which attach cucurbits.

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