Aphids of some sort? They’re all over my patty pan squash and pumpkins. It’s too late to save them this year (the plants are dead / yucky now) but I do want to know if I should get rid of them, somehow, and how to keep them from coming back next year.

EDIT: OK, so it seems either these are annoying Squash bugs and I should just cleanup this year, then watch better next tear. OR, they’re BM Stink bugs, the spawn of Satan, and I’m doomed to sleep with the unkilkable beasts forever now. Neat. Does it help to know they’re ignoring my tomatoes and peppers?

Thanks!

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    sorry, I misspelled it.

    Sevin

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    it’s a pesticide. I recommend using a bulb duster to apply it to the locations you need it. wear a mask, it won’t kill you or make you sick. it will irritate your sinuses and give you nosebleeds if you breathe in too much of it.

    • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 days ago

      Used to be able to get 20lb bags of the stuff. Throw it in a seed-spreader and walk it around. Now, I can only find 5lb bags, though the pests I was fighting seem to have been out-competed in recent years.