It is so true that the cuke beetles,both the striped and spotted ones,can carry and transmit several diseases.
The best advice I ever got was to cover the cuke plants,especially,with floating row covers until they started to blossom,and then take it off.That way,in the time that it takes any cuke beetle to their damage,they would have time to mature the cukes, at least the ones that I grew and I grew many different kinds of cukes..
Pyrethin,made from certain daisies and organic has also been used as a preventitive.
Carolyn
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