Here’s how to monitor and manage these destructive pests.

You tuck cucumber vines into the soil while dreaming of the fresh, crunchy fruits and tart pickles to come. And then one day, you walk into the garden to find holey, sickly plants in place of the lush ...

Gardeners, beware! With the onset of warm days, there is a ravenous pest than can move rapidly onto its favored plants, curcurbits or melons (especially honeydew, crenshaw and casaba), and begin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. spotted cucumber beetle Your carefully nurtured cucumber plants are suddenly wilting despite all your best efforts. Or maybe it's ...

It can be a serious pest in corn crops -- at the larval stage it's known as a corn rootworm. This leads to some confusion when the larva is a rootworm and the adult is a cucumber beetle. There is a ...

July and August in the vegetable garden typically bring bountiful harvests of colorful vegetables. These are also the months when insect pests can really make their presence known, with plant and ...

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?

This summer was unusually hot and dry and I am hoping that is why my cucumbers did not do well. I had two cucumbers ripen. Then three others grew and never fully ripened and that was it, even though I ...

There are two distinct species of cucumber beetles—striped and spotted. Both types are yellow and black and about ¼ inch long. The abdomen of the striped cucumber beetle is—you guessed it—striped ...