Ohio, about a half an inch, some kind of orange moth. It kept either pooping or laying eggs on all of my squash plants.
Posted Jul 6, 2015, 11:27 PM UTC
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I seen one of these bugs on my squash plants. I've always had a problem with them in the past but never knew anything about them until I became a reddit junkie. This year I sprinkled the base of the squash plant that had the bug on it with seven. The rest of the plants got diatomaceous earth. So far everything looks fine. I know seven is not good but I'm not losing my zucchini to bugs this year.
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Bad news about that. The Squash Borer Moth is cool looking, but the caterpillars will kill the hell out of your cucurbits. The eggs hatch, and the caterpillars drill inside the vine, which wilts it, and will eventually kill the plant. You'll want to carefully inspect your vines to remove the eggs, then in a couple weeks re-inspect the stems by holding them up against the light to spot the drilling caterpillars. You can kill them by stabbing them with a piece of wire, then bury the damaged section in some mud and hope for the best.
Or you could just get your zucchini at the farmers market.
Do these bugs eggs affect tomatoes? I grow jalapeños and cucumbers as well.
Nope, Squash Borers just beat up on squash. Your tomatoes got 99 problems, but a borer ain't one.
It layed them about 3 days ago. They take a week to hatch. I just went out and removed a lot of its eggs and it doesn't look like any of them hatched yet but I doubt I got them all. They're the size of sesame seeds. I'm so glad I know now instead of wondering why all my squash are dying and thinking it's my fault.