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 ...

Here's how to get rid of squash vine borers without pesticides and stop them from coming back. Found throughout North America, squash vine borers (Melittia cucurbitae) are a type of clearwing moth ...

Gardeners around Tucson are starting to complain about the sudden death of their zucchini and other squash. One day the plant is fine, and the next it's wilted and yellowing, clearly on the brink of ...

Experienced vegetable gardeners know that when cucumber and squash vines start to wilt there may be more than lack of water at fault. Plants in the cucurbit family include cucumbers, squash, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing zucchini in a home garden - Nicole Piepgras/Shutterstock Squash vine pests are the kind of villains that don't announce ...

One of the more common questions people ask this office is what is attacking their squash and other members of the curbit family. The answer is the usually the squash vine borer. Attack by squash vine ...

Zucchini, squash, cucumber and muskmelon plants die quickly after blooming, without so much as a goodbye. But if you look closely, you'll see the small puncture holes in the bottoms of stalks and ...