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APRIL, 1916 
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“‘Cutting Out’’ the Squash Borer 
Te melon family has many enemies, but the 
worst of all isthe squash borer. It is doubtful 
whether any garden pest is as bad as this one. 
Seldom does the squash aphis, common squash bug, 
the pickle worm, or other of the many insect 
enemies of the cucurbit family kill every plant, even 
if the usual remedies for the control of these pests 
are not taken to protect the growing vines. But 
an entire garden patch of fine looking winter squash 
vines may be destroyed by the squash borer. 
Against the squash borer, spraying and other 
usual remedies are cf no avail. As the name 
“boxer” implies, the damage to the squash plant is 
due to a grub which passes the destructive period 
of its life on the inside of the main leafstalk of the 
squash vine. Here the borer feeds, unseen and 
unsuspected, until the vine first suddenly withers 
and then dies, the immediate cause of the death of 
the plant remaining unknown to most gardeners. 
The simple fact of the matter is that the grub 
shuts off the sap flow in the main stem of the squash 
plant by feeding on the internal tissues, thus com- 
pletely destroying them and preventing the further 
growth of the vine. The grub is white, about 
ou of an inch long, with a dark brown 
ead. 
The parent of the borer is a moth, one of the most 
gorgeous of the small moths that fly by day. The 
description given of it by the entomologist of the 
North Carolina Experiment Station is as follows: 
“The front pair of wings are opaque, olive-brown 
in coler, with metallic green reflections; the hind 
If you have planted any Hubbard squash, keep a sharp 
lookout for the squash borer 
wings are clear and transparent, with black veins 
and a wide bronzy-green fringe of hairs. The kind 
pair of legs bear a heavy fringe of hairs, those on 
the outer edge orange or reddish, while the inner 
fringe is black. The abdomen is conspicuously 
orange or red, with black or bronze markings.” 
This description is so precise that one can scarcely 
fail to recognize the moth when it is seen flitting 
from vine to vine on a sunshiny day in late spring 
or early summer. The moth then has a general 
appearance of purple and orange. 
This parent moth of the squash borer lays her 
eggs on the vine stems near the ground. In the 
South eggs are laid as early as April or May, but in 
northern regions as late as July. The moth flies 
from vine to vine, laying an egg or two here and 
there, until a whole garden patch has been visited. 
This is one of the worst habits of the pest: she 
does not lay all her eggs in one place but scatters 
them generously over an entire garden. After a 
few warm days the eggs hatch into small grub-like 
worms which immediately bore into the vine and 
begin to eat the inside tissues. They reach matur- 
ity in about a month, during which time they feed 
in the main stem but preferably in the woody 
tissues near the root. Few plants can survive their 
presence, since the borers, by destroying the 
tissues, shut off the sap flow from the roots. Occa- 
sionally a plant is able to survive because the borer 
may feed longitudinally in the stem and only 
destroy a part of the tissues, thus allowing sufficient 
sap to flow in the balance of the stem to keep the 
plant alive unt!l the borcr escapes into the ground 
