My Experience with Cucumber Beetle Traps and Lures

In a desperate attempt to control the onslaught of cucumber beetles infesting my two Suisun Valley plots, I purchased some yellow sticky traps and pheromone lures for cucumber beetles. Let’s just say that they did not produce the desired results.

Instead of mostly killing off cucumber beetles the traps mostly caught bees and butterflies. I even checked to make sure that I had purchased the correct product for the species of beetle I was trying to remediate. The results were was pretty sad. Either the beetles have undergone adaptations that make it so that they don’t care for the traps and lures or the traps and lures never worked to begin with.

 

 

In any case, I returned the remainder of the traps and lures to the company that I purchased them from and hope that I will never purchase another product that will unintentionally injure or kill off my beneficial insect friends.