Your carefully nurtured cucumber plants are suddenly wilting despite all your best efforts. Or maybe it's your squash, melon or pumpkin plants that are affected. Perhaps you see a bug you don't ...

Signs of cucumber beetle activity include chewed leaves, holes, dimples, and scars on fruits. Cucumber beetles transmit bacterial wilt and cucumber mosaic virus, which cause plant death. Cucumber ...

Q: Last summer I had cucumbers and zucchini wilting and dying even though I’m pretty certain I didn’t have root rot or squash vine borer. What should I try this year so I can hopefully get a harvest?

Here’s how to monitor and manage these destructive pests. Cucumber beetles are one of the most devastating garden pests in the South. “They feed on the foliage, blossoms, and skins of fruits of many ...

Cucumber beetles are rather pretty with their yellow-green and black coloring. One wears stripes and the other is dressed in spots, but they are devastating in the garden.