Thanks handmade! I’ll read the squash bug lit from UofN. I sell at the local farmer’s market and all the natural growers here have been slammed this year with the squash bugs. (Area: Northern AZ).
I finally broke down and opened a can of whoop-ass poison to save my other pumpking patch. None of the organic methods made a dent. They did well for the other pests like the tomato hornworms. Used Bt and smote them.
Once in awhile that is the approach to use. I found one tomato horn worm this summer- it was on a parsley stem. One I can live with= he likely got parasitized by those little wasps that take over the horn worm for dinner, lunch, breakfast and a snack. Other wise he lived to grow in to one of the moths that look like a hummingbird.
Either way I ignored him. But your situation is different. That calls for action.