One of the diseases that sounded and may have looked a lot like what I saw in some of my pictures was a disease ... is transmitted by striped cucumber beetle or Acalymma vittate and spotted ...

If you spot aphids, treat them with insecticidal soap. Cucumber beetles and vine borers are the worst watermelon pests. Treat adult beetles with rotenone or a pyrethrum-based insecticide ...

John in Sterling, Virginia, writes: “Arrgghh! I got cucumber beetles in my garden! Would a vegetable soap prevent these beetles from attacking my cucumbers?” No, John. Washing down plant ...