Besides Flea Beetles, I have managed to grow a significant population of Cucumber Beetles. The first several years of gardening there were none. Over the past 3 years I've seen one or two a year but they haven't proved to be too much trouble. Last year they were on the rise and I bought some sticky traps. This year I have been killing half a dozen each morning in addition to what was on the trap. Yesterday I put out a fresh trap, and this is how many I caught in the first 24 hours...
The other size is even worse....
And I'm still killing half a dozen by hand each day.
Gardening is so easy up until the point where the pests discover you have a garden and set up an ever expanding population.
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