Eggs on Cucumber - Ask Extension
who are these mostly transparent gold eggs
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Eggs on Cucumber #584441
Asked July 29, 2019, 11:40 AM EDT
who are these mostly transparent gold eggs
Harford County Maryland
Expert Response
Hi, these appear to be squash bug eggs. (Another pest, the squash beetle, lays bright yellow elliptical shape eggs.)
Either mash the egg masses with your fingers (they are kind of rubbery so bear down) or tear out the small sections of leaf with the eggs are drop them into a container of soapy water, or stomp on them.
This is a significant sucking insect pest and it's worth turning over leaves to find and destroy the egg masses before the nymphs hatch out:
https://extension.umd.edu/hgic/topics/squash-bug-vegetables
Jon
Either mash the egg masses with your fingers (they are kind of rubbery so bear down) or tear out the small sections of leaf with the eggs are drop them into a container of soapy water, or stomp on them.
This is a significant sucking insect pest and it's worth turning over leaves to find and destroy the egg masses before the nymphs hatch out:
https://extension.umd.edu/hgic/topics/squash-bug-vegetables
Jon
