Cucurbits
Other Pests or Damage You May See—Vegetative Growth
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Names link to information on identification and management.
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 Darkling beetle adult Identification tip: Adults vary from black or bluish black to rusty brown. Do not confuse with predatory ground beetles, which prey on various soil dwelling pests. |
 Cricket adult Identification tip: Adult crickets are black or brown, and are about 1/2 to 1 inch in length. |
 Flea beetle adult Identification tip: The adult is small and shiny with enlarged hind legs. When disturbed it jumps like a flea. |
 Grasshopper adult Identification tip: The adults are elongate, robust, winged and good flyers. Commonly brown, gray, green, or yellowish with greatly enlarged hind legs adapted for jumping. The somewhat similar cricket has longer antennae and is darker. |
 Leafhopper damage Identification tip: Feeding can cause severe white stippling and yellowing of the leaves. |
 Seedcorn maggot Identification tip: Where slow, spotty emergence is observed, dig up the seed and inspect for larvae. They are about 1/4 inch, whitish, cylindrical and taper toward the end. |
 Thrips adult Identification tip: Minute, slender-bodied insects with two pairs of long, narrow wings, the margins of which are fringed with long hairs. |
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| Diseases | ||
 Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder Identification tip: First yellow spots appear on leaves, which develop into interveinal chlorosis (veins remain more or less green but the rest of the leaf turns bright yellow). |
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