TC-7344. TC-7341. TC-7342 



esult of pickleworm 

 ed cucumber. 



Insecticides and forms Amount to apply per acre 



in which they may in 20 to 100 gallons of 



be purchased water 



Lindane or parathion: 



25-percent wettable powder 1 pound 



25-percent emulsifiable concentrate 1 pint 



The fungicides zineb and maneb are toxic to young 

 pickleworms. If you apply one of these to your cucurbit 

 crop for disease control, you may apply lindane in the 

 same dust or spray. If you do this, and make applica- 

 tions every 5 days, you may reduce the amount of 

 lindane applied per acre by one-half. Parathion also 

 may be applied in a fungicide dust or spray, but the 

 amount of parathion applied per acre should not be 

 reduced. 



EFFECTIVENESS 



Lindane provides effective control of the pickleworm. 

 It also controls cucumber beetles, the melon aphid, and 

 the melonworm. It is of some value against the squash 

 vine borer, but it does not kill dipterous leaf miners. 



Parathion, when properly applied, gives satisfactory 

 protection against the pickleworm, but usually is some- 

 what less effective than lindane against that insect and, 



