Thread: Unusual Sightings.

To be honest, I am scratching my head about my cucumber plants. They started dying off about 2 weeks ago.

maybe they got too much vitamin P

Vine borer or stink bugs likely the culprit on the cucumbers. Rabbits are basically rodents not unusual to see young here this late. Last year we shot some that were half grown at the end of January. Squirrels too if there is a good mast many times they have young very late in the year.

Originally Posted by rico

To be honest, I am scratching my head about my cucumber plants. They started dying off about 2 weeks ago.

Could be cucumber beetles also. Transmits a virus, poof your plants are done.

Check your hummingbirds around your feeders...mine are all females with so far in the past 2 days one little male only without his red breast as he is a young one. All the males go south first and females follow later and are bulking up on the feeders right now. No autumn olive berries or red dogwood berries around my neck of the woods either,,late spring frost must have got them and its a primary food source for wild birds and game birds also.

On a humerous note, other day,,around coffee with some hunting buds,,,one commented one woods he squirrel hunts,,the squirrels had already gotten too smart for him to hunt,,,and he thought it was too early for that to happen. Other buddy told him,,he had a serious problem if the squirrels were outsmarting him,,as they only had a brain the size of your small finger with him showing it down to first bend of your small pinky. I can't post what the reply to that statement was.

Don't know if this means anything but I did see a waxworm steal the fur coat off a wooly worm . Didn't have my camera with me.

Originally Posted by Redge

Could be cucumber beetles also. Transmits a virus, poof your plants are done.

I have never heard of them. I had to look them up. Now I am watching like a hawk in the garden.

cucumber beetles are about 1/2 inch long yellow with black spots and 1/8 inch wide and like was said they can wipe out cucumbers over night, or so it seems, been there done that.