Stink Bugs are the Devil

nitaw

I lost my battle with stink bugs on my squash over the weekend. I came back from out of town and the stink bugs literally sucked the life out of my squash. Ho hum. But, we did get a decent harvest for it and it's late August so it's time to start prepping for fall crops anyway.

HikerBride07

Seriously!  I hate them!!  Gross, gross, gross.  They killed my 3 zucchini plants, I only got one.  Last year I had so many zukes I didn't know what to do with them.  They also massacred my chocolate cherry tomatoes.  Luckily they don't seem to care for the yellow grape tomatoes.

mae141

The ones on squash are probably squash bugs. They look really similar, and are just as hard to get rid of. I would pick them off the squash plants and step on them and cut off leaves that had eggs on them. I just about killed my plants, but it seems like I got rid of most of them. Now I am fighting the stink bugs on my tomatoes.

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I think starlings are supposed to eat them pretty well. Dunno how one attracts them to the yard though.

Hey Jellisy

mae141:

The ones on squash are probably squash bugs. They look really similar, and are just as hard to get rid of. I would pick them off the squash plants and step on them and cut off leaves that had eggs on them. I just about killed my plants, but it seems like I got rid of most of them. Now I am fighting the stink bugs on my tomatoes.

Uggh. Me too. They are so frustrating. And everywhere.