Q: I have a question regarding the attached photo of an unknown bug visiting one of my squash flower plants. This morning I counted eight of the same type crawling all over the squash flowers. Any ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. spotted cucumber beetle Your carefully nurtured cucumber plants are suddenly wilting despite all your best efforts. Or maybe it's ...

Now that fall is waning into winter, it is time for many of us to reflect on our garden successes and failures. I often find that I learn more from my garden failures and battles than I do from my ...

DEAR NEIL: What is eating the leaves of my zucchini squash? I looked on the backs and didn’t find any eggs. Dear Reader: This is damage caused by striped cucumber beetles. The adult beetles are fond ...

Q. I have had little striped bugs on my cucumbers. The plants seem fine and then they wilt away. Are these things related? A. It sounds as though you are struggling with cucumber beetles. Both striped ...

Sometimes things happen in the garden when you least expect it. Last week, we had a major outbreak of spotted cucumber beetles. They were not in the vegetable garden where you would expect. Instead, ...

Question: I have black and white striped beetles with a red head infesting my beans and eggplant. I am an organic gardener. How can I get rid of these?

Many insects plague the vegetable gardener, but few are as lethal as the squash bug and the cucumber beetle. Plants may die from the squash bugs' continual feeding or from the bacterial wilt that ...

A new study suggests the Malagasy striped whirligig beetle Heterogyrus milloti boasts a genetic pedigree stretching back to the late Triassic period. There are precious few species today in the ...