At my sister's house, I think I'm giving up on squash. Small yards, and someone close must be hosting them, because I was seeing the bugs before I even planted anything. We didn't get any squash picked there, even the watermelons died before the melons were ready. I did get cucumbers though.
At my parent's house 7 miles away, where yards are bigger, I haven't seen any squash bugs at all. The pumpkins wilted and died, possibly due to the heat, a single zucchini plant has produced a bunch of zucchini, and is now covering about 10 feet in diameter. The Tromba d'Albenga has been slow, I'd gotten 1 small one that something had started eating a couple months ago, and now finally I've found a couple of large ones on the plant. The Tromba and winter squash are still wilting during the day but surviving.
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