Yesterday afternoon I picked off 4 or 5 squash bugs, squished a lot of eggs, picked up a lot of eggs and nymphs with the tape which also collected a lot of dirt while capturing nymphs. I sprinkled diamatacious earth around the stems. These plants are growing through a strip of black plastic. The tape picks up some eggs, but those near the leaf veins still need a fingernail to scrape them loose. This morning I caught 27 adult bugs and a few not quite mature nymphs, put them in a bucket with water, poured them out in the pasture on bare soil and stomped on them!
Rita, thanks for the suggestion. I don't have any Neem oil, and it is a 40 mile trip to town.
