Squash bugs use their mouthparts to pierce and suck plant sap from the foliage and fruit, causing plant death, damaged fruit, ...

Squash bugs cause extensive damage on cucurbit crops like squash and pumpkins. Check your garden now for squash bug eggs, nymphs and adult bugs.

Cucurbit apples come from Carver Hill Orchards in Stow. Today, the seasonal farm sells annuals, perennials, vegetables, fruits, eggs, beef and chicken, along with Christmas trees and wreathes.

The cucurbit family includes a number of valuable crop species (melon, cucumber, squash/pumpkin, watermelon). Much of this review is concerned with transgenic resistance to viruses, shown to be the ...

Cucurbit downy mildew is a devastating disease for the United States cucurbit industry, which includes cucumbers, watermelon, squash, and pumpkin. The disease has caused major losses in North ...

Like its cucurbit cousins, cucamelons are warm-season crops which thrive in hot weather. Cucamelons are often referred to as a superfood due to their high nutritional value and health benefits.

This male Cucurbit flower will drop off leaving nothing behind but the end of the stem. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Janet B. Carson) This female Cucurbit flower has a little fruit attached.

Cucurbit downy mildew is a devastating disease affecting economically important crops such as cucumber, cantaloupe, squash, pumpkins, and watermelon. Previously effective fungicide have been ...

Cucurbit leaf crumple virus usually starts in small patches in a field with new leaves showing yellowing. In early stages of infection, the yellowing appears between the infected leaf’s veins.

"If we were to group all of those (cucurbit) commodities together I think for the Bundaberg region alone you could easily be looking at $150 million farm gate value," she said.