Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Recipe for garden cleanup spray needed, 1 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
I had them last year, I had no idea what they were and I've grown pumpkins and gourds before, not a lot but every so often and had never seen them on any of my plants. Yuck! Yuck! They are back again this year, I don't think I will grow anything that vines like that for a while. They do seem to appear from no where. Last year I had these great looking plants and then one day I noticed that they looked a little wilty, just kind of like they needed a little water. Then bang they looked terrible and were covered with thousands of these horrid bugs. They are really hard to kill, too. I don't have any qualms about using insecticide and even the heavy duty stuff didn't get rid of them all. I really think that the key is to stop them early which is what the floating cover does.
Pic from last year. Nasty, Nasty things.