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| My beautiful zucchini plants |
I like my squash plants. I think they are really beautiful, and they sure know how to make whatever squash it is that they were meant to make! Every year I have had squash bugs. My friend told me I needed to toughen up because I would apologize to them as I grabbed them and squished them. This year there were a LOT. I hired Dan to pick them off and get rid of them. Even with the piles he pulled off, and the ones I pulled off there were lots and lots left munching on the plants. Mostly they weren't as bad on the zucchini plant. It looks good.
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| This is the surviving Pumpkin plant which is pretty too. |
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| This is a bad picture of the sadly killed pumpkin plants. The squash bugs won that round! |
Unfortunately, with all of our grabbing of squash bugs, we didn't make enough difference to save this one. I tried spraying evil bug killer (which I have never done) but they kept walking around without being phased. I figured they had already somehow become radioactive and turned into super villain squash bugs. Eventually I did a little research and got rid of a lot of them, but I'm sure there are still more in there snacking. I'm hoping they mostly snack on the dead one and leave the rest alone -- but is that really what a super villain squash bug would do?
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