If your squash and pumpkin plants are wilting despite frequent watering or you’ve spotted holes bored into the base of your cucurbit plant stems, you may have a squash vine borer problem. These ...

This classic squash is pretty beginner-friendly and low-maintenance, but it still needs attention. House Beautiful tapped a ...

It’s devastating when your pumpkins or squash have been growing so nicely and then in a matter of days they wilt and die, leaving you to wonder what happened. Vine borers could be to blame. The adults ...

Pumpkins can succumb to many issues during their growing season and lots of problems may first show as yellowing leaves. Discolored foliage can be the result of watering problems, nutrient ...

Did you find your vining crops suddenly wilting and dying last summer? If so, you may be suffering from a squash vine borer. This clearwing moth is a serious pest of vine crops such as summer squash, ...

Pumpkins are planted in late spring and harvested just before fall, with roughly 80% of production and use occurring during ...

Gardeners are made of tough stuff. We manage a brave smile when our seedlings get nibbled, our leaves go spotty and the blessed groundhogs help themselves to our harvest. But there is one affliction ...

JACKSONVILLE — There are a variety of insects that will feed on squash. One of the more troublesome is the squash vine borer. If you've grown squash and had a runner or two start wilting, there's a ...

If you've read my past lamentations, you know that I had a pretty bad vine borer problem this year. Most years, I find one or two and can destroy them before they do any real damage. This year, I ...