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@@dustyflats3832 Easier to spot up in the leaf though and haven't damaged the vine. I dislike them too and my friends and relatives just a few blocks over don't even get them and they all grow cucurbits also.

Me too but, I feel like I waste hours in the garden treating, preventing, and picking eggs. I squeeze them between my 2 thumbnails. My vine borers lay dozens of eggs a day, and lays them all over including the tendrils and even between the young flower buds, underneath the leaves between the veins. They are very sneaky!!! The many things I’ve tried; covered, wrapped, used yellow traps, preventative spraying, planted earlier and later, search for eggs hours, used lure traps, dusted, companion planting, used cinnamon and pepper, neem oil doesn’t work and kills my plants , grown them upright or vined and buried underground, grown in greenhouse, even tried not growing pepo varieties for a couple years, grown resistant and they still get those!!!! I can’t take it anymore, they’re the Bain of my gardening existence!!! I have been battling at least a decade! I didn’t have them before then. They drive me insane and I run around my garden sounding like a trucker!!!

Me too but I feel like I waste hours in the garden doing this. I squeeze them between my 2 thumbnails. You have to make sure because sometimes I think they squish and they actually don’t, so I recheck it and then it pops. My vine borers lay dozens of eggs a day, and lays them all over including the tendrils and even between the young flower buds, underneath the leaves between the veins. They are very sneaky!!! I can’t take it anymore, they’re the Bain of my gardening existence!!!

Yes you know them well! When you see the signs of squash vine borders on your plants, get garden diatomaceous earth, and dust the plants after watering and after the plants have dried. I find that this method works for me, and DE is not harmful for bees and other pollinators.

I'm there too! I'll see you in the produce section!

That may give the main stem a little more protection but they will just put a hundred eggs elsewhere. ;-(

@@mamajan99 You're probably right. My Squash vines got devastated by the SVB this year unfortunately.

@@MichaelGawesebmainone not sure which pest you're dealing with. The only other pest I know of that lays eggs similar to a vine borer is the pickleworm moth.

@@cuzzourt35 I use a dentist mirror from a kit I got on eBay to find the eggs on the underside. Otherwise just do weekly applications of insecticide. That should take care of any eggs or recently hatched caterpillars.

I have such a high SVB population that I need to do all three. Traps have really worked for me, although it's never the only thing I have to do. Sorry you are dealing with them too.

Yeah it's bad. Been coming since mid May non stop. I use the traps, scape eggs, BT, bury vines,

@@crazysquirrel9425 spinosad is only effective if the bug eats it. You may want a contact killer for those. I have a lot of them around too but are they really an issue? I don't notice any damage from them.

@@wtfhomesteadingadventures7832 It's not too late to plant. There are 70 day varieties too.

@@Ashers_Art No unfortunately that was the day I learned that pumpkin vines are not hollow like leaf stems. Instead it's better to mulch around the base of the plant so the moth cannot find it. This forces her to lay eggs up higher on the vine or a leaf where they are much easier to remove. Then you can just spray bt or spinosad in case you missed an egg. If the caterpillars do manage to get into the base of the plant after mulching then just use a deep soak of the aforementioned insecticides.

@@kevenweaver9266 The issue I had with foil is that it tears easily as the vine thickens in circumference, and just like row covers, the little devils always seem to find a way in. One other benefit to mounding is that the roots that grow on your stem will grow into the mounded soil and become a part of the plant's rooting system, meaning you'll get a stronger plant with bigger fruits, similarly to letting the vines grow across the ground and root at the nodes. This also is another protection against vine borers, especially if you mound over the nodes too.

Depends on your first frost date. Try and find one that's already growing maybe from a garden center. For animals I just use the cheap bird netting over the fruits when they start growing

@@BackyardPumpkins Thank you very much.

Gives the roots a little more space to reach before they spread out. Nothing under that bed but amended clay

@@BackyardPumpkins Great idea, thank you!

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You can inject it if you wish but if you can get a needle in there then just skewer the caterpillar. You could use a wire too. Spray Captain Jack's afterward.

@@BackyardPumpkins Thanks! I will give it a go :)