Eeeviiil squash bugs are sucking the life-blood out of my acron squash and pumpkins ... just like Ovomitnomic bugs suck the life-blood out of our economy.
yeah, I have had a great growing summer here too. Excessive heat and humidity to the point that most plants quit, to a huge bumper crop of green tomato caterpillars that was the final blow.
I trimmed all the dead leaves/branches from any surviving tomato plants, killed the green demons, and am hoping that with a late frost, the plants may give me something later.
Get some hot peppers and put them in the blender with some water. Either strain that through a coffee filter and put it in a spray bottle and spray in on the squash and pumpin or just pour it over the squash making sure to wet the entire thing.
Yeah but you can nail the squash bugs by going to the garden store- the other mess is going to take some real effort to even marginally succeed.
Does your extension office have information on how to avoid squash bugs next year? If you go to the University of Nebraska NebGuides, they have one that is good.