Which pesticide kills squash bugs?

Answer 1

Drowning, hosing, spraying, squishing, and stomping are ways for gloves-wearing gardeners to remove squash bugs from squash plants (Cucurbita spp). The insect pests in question (Anasa tristis) can be hosed or shaken into soapy water-filled buckets, raked (after succumbing to insecticides) into bags for burning, or squashed onto ground-spread newspapers (for subsequent burning).

Answer 2

Horticultural oils, organic mulch, plastic sheeting, repellent plants, resistant varieties, timed plantings, and trellised growth are ways to control squash bugs. The insects in question (Coreidae family) find it difficult to access their favorite cucurbits when the ground is covered with sawdust or sheeting and when ground-level access is frustrated by trellis-trained cultivations. Repellent plants include marigolds, nasturtiums, radishes, and tansies.

Answer 3

Removing eggs and bugs manually from plants and treating with organic insecticides such as diatomaceous earth, pyrethrin and pyrethrum are ways by which squash bugs (Coreidae family) may be killed organically.

Specifically, manual removal works best early in the season and with fewer numbers of plants. The bug stage often hides at the plant's base. So that is where the insecticides need to be applied.

Answer 4

Sabadilla, ryania, rotenone, and neem oil have tended to be the botanical or organic pesticides that are applied against squash bugs.

Specifically, bifenthrin, carbaryl, esfenvalerate, and permethrin have tended to be the chemical, non organic, synthetic pesticides that are used. The non organic pesticides tend to be more immediate and longer lasting in their effects. Of the four listed, bifenthrin and esfenvalerate are effective over a four week period. Carbaryl and permethrin are not so long lasting. Specifically, their treatments tend to be limited to a 10-14 day time period.

An exceptionally effective botanical is rotenone. It is one of the faster acting, longer lasting of the organic controls. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Program no longer approves its use.

Answer 5

Drowning in soapy water-filled buckets is the quickest way to kill squash bugs. The above-mentioned control tends to be most effective when infestations can be handled by removal with gloved hand or mechanical tool. There will be a lag between pesticide application and population decline to targeted levels.

Answer 6

Poision. If you are an organic farmer, put a plastic bowl or container over it and poke tiny holes in the container.

Answer 7

One way to rid squash plants of bugs is to squash them with gloved hands.