Bugs attack!

 Today, we watered the plants that were inside of the school.after, we went outside and we started watering the pumpkin plants and we started noticing that there were insects eating our plants. Mr. Mikulski caught one of the bugs, which had wings, in a red cup. This flying bug did not appear to be eating, but was attracted to the yellow flowers. There were dozens of them walking around inside them!

the cucumber beetles are in this cup

Later, I did some research on the internet and discovered that one of the insects that were eating our plants was the squash vine borer larvae, which at this stage in its development eats the inside of the plant.

the larvae ate up pretty much all of this plants stem!

The other insect was called the cucumber beetle, which was in the mating stage of its life cycle. We did a little research about it and found out ways to keep the bugs away from our garden in the future. We also found out a way to kill the bugs now. Our plan was to buy a container of nematodes and, using a baby syringe, apply it to the stem wherever we see the holes from the bug eating. Mr. Mikulski and I found out a way the nematodes work was to water the plants with worms and when the worms get inside of the grubs it will let out a bacteria inside of it and it will kill the grub.

After, we did our research we spent the rest of our time outside watering and mulching. We also had water while we were working.