a widespread genus of beetles sometimes referred to as cucumber beetles or corn rootworms, in the family Chrysomelidae. Members of this genus include several destructive agricultural pest species.

Question: This summer, my vines are covered with cucumber beetles. I never had so many before. What can I do to get rid of them, so I don't have so ...

corn, potatoes, and tomatoes. As if that wasn't bad enough, they transmit two diseases, bacterial wilt and cucumber mosaic virus. The adult beetles chew on the flowers, fruits, and stems of any of ...

Cool, crunchy cucumbers are great in salads, pickled, or even eaten plain with a little salt (or is that just me?). These ...

She explained: The cucumber beetle caterpillar, known better in this stage as Southern corn rootworm, has a taste for the most valuable part of the peanut plant, the nut itself. According to North ...

Radishes make excellent cucumber companion plants as they can help deter the dreaded cucumber beetle. For every cucumber planted, sow a few radish seeds at the base. Do not harvest them.

As the disease name implies, the first symptoms are the wilting of individual leaves, followed by longer sections of stem, then entire plants.

The spotted cucumber beetle, also known as the southern corn rootworm, has 12 black spots on its back. Both can be damaging, but the striped cucumber beetle is more problematic because of its ...