Decided to try some squash again in my little garden area. Last time my squash and zucchini got wiped out by borers. What’s your go to method to fight these bastards

I had to quit planting it because of the damn SVB

They've gotten mine the past 2 years too. I hate those damn things

I try various products but when I have the best luck i start spraying early and all around the base of the plants but yeah they hard to control

I've tried everything but one of those traps with no luck.

We lost all of ours last year - I’ve done quite a bit of studying on them. It appears that the key is to remove the eggs from the base and/or I’ve read articles about wrapping the base of the stem with aluminum foil. Once they have bored into the plant - some folks have cut them out and covered the stem with soil (mostly poor results).

This year - at the first sign of them, I’m going to inject the plant with BT - so as the larvae consume it, it will kill them (or so I have read) and the plant will recover.

I wish us all luck with these dang things.

I've tried the aluminum foil around the stem, piled dirt around the stems, injected them with BT, cut the stalks open and fished the larva out and spent countless hours looking for the damn eggs. The BT will kill the larva and if you catch it quick enough you can save the plant but they are relentless. I pulled 8 worms out of one plant year before last. The make a pheromone trap that is about the only thing I haven't tried yet. I just stopped planting it at the house. If you figure out a fool proof way then please let me know.

7 dust , and start it when plants are very young. before any sign of them.

I’ve tried soapy water spray around the stem and ground. (Spray every other day or so.) Neem oil around the stem ( read about neem oil) not to be on the fruit before picking. Spray what ever you use in the evening or at dark. spraying in the morning might get your spray in the open bloom. Both have worked for me. I still loose a few plants.

I ordered a couple of the pheromone traps. Have Sevin and Bifenthrin sprays. At this point I could buy a fair amount of squash at the farmers market.

I have a friend that grows the hell out of it. I grow the hell out of peppers, so we trade peppers for squash but I would still like to grow some squash without it getting killed.

I gave up. Every time I planted it, I would lose.

I’ve seen them walk through seven dust. Malathion is the only thing that’ll kill the adults but still won’t kill the eggs imo.

Me too

I put one of the sticky traps out, there were 4 yellow/black wasps in there yesterday. I hope it's doing it's thing.