Last year and the year before they showed up as small clusters of brownish orange-ish eggs on the tops of my zucchini and my bird house goard leaves. I tore that section of leaf off and threw it in the trash.
I turned my garden twice this winter to expose as many wintering pests/larva as possible. I have not seen the little varmits yet this year but I look for them daily.
Thanks. I didn’t even know where on the plant to look for them. A lot of bugs like to hide on the undersides of the leaves or down by the base of the plant.
If these things show up on top, that’ll make it all the easier.
My garden is not huge which will be a help in controlling pests mechanically.
I would like to have turned my soil over a couple times in the winter to do the same thing as you, but once it started snowing in November, that was it for seeing the ground again until April.