In my garden patch (modest size -- I'll probably finish the year with about 500# of stuff harvested) I finally controlled them by aggressively search for egg masses -- a couple hours a week from July 1 through August 15 did the trick. I'm still harvesting some summer squash 2 months after the plants put out their first ones! Never got past mid-August since I moved here before.
In Connecticut, Squash Bugs are resistant to Sevin. The other chemicals like Rotenone are only effective on the nymphs, and unfortunately are also bad for the bees -- since the eggs are being laid when the plants are flowering, it's pretty impossible to properly spray for the nymphs often enough to be effective and not seriously impact your pollinators.
As I understand it, commercial growers are less impacted since they have bigger fields then home gardeners. Since the bugs harbor over the winter in the woodline, in commercial fields there is relatively few squash bugs over wintering to the size of the patch. Only squash bugs that have over-wintered lay eggs. I think they have stronger pesticides they can use, too.
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