Zucchini and squash borers

7-10-11
I'm sorry for the poor quality of this image, it was taken at dusk.  At least you can see the way the leaves are drooping and turning yellow.  I have never had this problem before so had to do some online research.  The best thing for me to do, based on the info I found, is destroy the plant, seek and destroy all the grubs in the plant and in the soil around it and replant.  It's not too late to get another one grown and producing since the bug that laid the eggs has ended it's life cycle by now.  So far there is no evidence of the pest being on any of my other squash plants.

 7-14-11
Update, I destroyed the plant, found a couple of grubs in the plant, none in the soil so replanted more zucchini seeds.

Here is the squash growing on the trellis (and the place where the zucchini was) as of 7-14-11.  The trellis is almost invisible beneath all those plants :)  I am still concerned about the weight of the fruit as it grows.....

There are for sure two pumpkins on the African pumpkin vine, you can see one vine from it inching it's way towards me,  lol.  There are also a possible two more on that vine, I have pinched off the growing tip, there are enough there for this year.  The vine is huge, it got a later start than the squashes but took off once the weather was steadily warm.   I just looked it up, it is from Bangalor India.  The pumpkin is the yellow one in the picture below.  There are 3 more on the vines that have been recently pollinated.  This is going to be a surprise because I do not know how big they will be at maturity.  

In this picture I captured 4 fruits, one pumpkin and 3 buttercup squash.  The production is exceeding my expectations, at this point I am happy about it all.

Here is my largest butternut squash.  It is about 8" long  There are at least 8 more that I found over 3" long, and even more that have just been pollinated. There promises to be bounty for me to keep and share as well.  :)

These are my standard bush beans I grow for canning whenever/wherever it is that I have a garden.  If you look closely enough you can see beans here as well as more flowers, the leaves you see at the bottom of the pic is my sweet annie growing next to them.


The italian beans are doing surprisingly well given their dark place between the potatoes and the african beans.  I will probably have enough beans from them to plant a nice plot of them next year.  Sorry, no pic of it this time.

The African beans are filling out their pods, there will be a good harvest from them, I believe there will be enough to plant at least 10 feet next year, maybe even 20.  That will give me enough to eat some and save seed for the future.  

And here is my tomato jungle :))

There are no red ones yet but a boat load of green ones and even more blossoms.