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Fellow Gardeners, I need help... (pics)

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OLD NORTH STATE BBQ CO.
OLD NORTH STATE BBQ CO. Posts: 412
edited June 2012 in Off Topic
Anybody know what type of bugs are destroying my zucchini plant? See pic. And thanks.

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 "Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great, Here's to "Down Home," the Old North State!"

Med & XL

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  • fish8503
    fish8503 Posts: 30
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    dont know what that is. never seen them eat the stalks. you put any seven dust on them?
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  • OLD NORTH STATE BBQ CO.
    OLD NORTH STATE BBQ CO. Posts: 412
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    Yep, and it didn't work. The nursery sold me Captain Jack Organic pesticide. Seemed to work, but I can't harvest anything in the garden for several days.

     "Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great, Here's to "Down Home," the Old North State!"

    Med & XL

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  • Village Idiot
    Village Idiot Posts: 6,959
    edited June 2012
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    Looks more like a fungus or other plant disease than a bug.

    The county agent and feed store are your friends.
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    Dripping Springs, Texas.
    Just west of Austintatious


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  • billybon
    billybon Posts: 213
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    Looks like wet rot fungus.
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  • fish8503
    fish8503 Posts: 30
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    yeh i was kind of thinking it did not look like bugs
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  • OLD NORTH STATE BBQ CO.
    OLD NORTH STATE BBQ CO. Posts: 412
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    yeh i was kind of thinking it did not look like bugs
    It may be a fungus, but some flies with red eyes are going to town on it.  You can see one of them in the second picture on the side of the stalk.  They seem to be boring into the joints of the soft plant tissue.  Never seen this before. 

     "Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great, Here's to "Down Home," the Old North State!"

    Med & XL

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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 32,754
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    yeh i was kind of thinking it did not look like bugs
    It may be a fungus, but some flies with red eyes are going to town on it.  You can see one of them in the second picture on the side of the stalk.  They seem to be boring into the joints of the soft plant tissue.  Never seen this before. 
    that could be a squash vine borer
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Humptywaspushed
    Humptywaspushed Posts: 2
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    No Seven Dust!  It's kills the pollenators as well, then who will make the plant bear fruit?
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