Discussion Board - Help!!, whats attacking my buttercup squash?.

Something has decided that my field of Buttercup Burgess squash has tasty leaves!. What do you think is doing it?. I'm suspecting a bug that I took a picture of. This picture is of the damage thats being done to a 1 acre field of squash.
Thanks in advance!

Sorry about the position of the bugs in the picture, but these bugs are pretty tiny and the rest of them were all scampering so that these were the only ones I got a sucessful picture of. These bugs are all over the plants, and I'm suspecting that they are to blame for the damage, but I don't even know what they are?. They are very similar to the bugs that attack potato plants, in coloration, but they arent the same because they are oblong instead of rounding and aren't anywhere near as large as those, so I don't know what they are?. the bugs in the picture look larger than what they really are because I had to take a really close up picture. The plants that they are attacking are only about 3 weeks old and are just 2-3 inches out of the ground. This is the first year I have planted a big field of squash, and before that, this field had been let grown to weeds for the last 20yrs, so I'm unsure where all these bugs came from, but theres quite a number of them.

Not exactly my part of the world, but crop bugs are a bit of an interest generally...

Rick
in Canada

• Striped cucumber beetle

Organic/IPM -- read for yourself:
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I've never had a big problem with these guys, the lady bugs take care of them once they catch up.

My biggest buggabo is the Squash Bugs. Evil bastards.. Link

Squash>Link Bugs are usually the only reason I can't call my garden organic any given year -- the Sevin comes out to handle them. Hate to do it 'cause it kills good bugs too, but w/o it my Zukes and Pumpkins get devestated.