County Fair cukes aren't resistant to the beetles at all; not one bit more than any other cucumber. They are just resistant to bacterial wilt. However, 'resistant' does not mean that they are disease PROOF. If the beetle pressure is high, then disease resistant hybrids can become infected, too.

I'm not saying that you didn't get the wrong seeds, mind you. You may have. When you call Park, explain to them about the different appearance and flavor, however....not the beetles and wilt.

So are you saying I've just been lucky to not have any cuc beetles on my cucs for about 20 years? Before county fair cucs, if I had beetles, I had wilt.
I have never even seen a cuc beetle on them all these years.
But.....I really think these are not county fair cucs. It all makes sense to me now. Thanks for the tip about stressing to Park the difference in other qualities.
I can't believe how fast these beetles can kill a vine.
Yesterday they were all fine. Today they aren't.

I grew County Fair for many years until the last two years when they began to develop downy mildew. This year I ordered Little Leaf, downy mildew resistant and supposed to be bacterial wilt resistant as well. I kept them covered until they began to flower, and so far so good. Lots of cukes and no problems. I've also discovered that they are parthenocarpic, so if worse comes to worse, you can keep them covered and they will still bear fruit.

What kind of cover do you use laceyvail?
I think I might order County Fair from another company next spring. I've never had any problems with downy mildew.
I'm very thankful for them producing County Fair, because I just couldn't have cucs without it.
I tried Little Leaf a long time ago, and for some reason I can't remember, I preferred County Fair. But if I could never have county fair again, I'd definitely go back to Little Leaf.

This appears to be a stressful growing season in many parts of the country, with population explosions of different kinds of beetles and stinkbugs, etc.

I didn't have problems with the Diva I grew from seed last year. I bought some Lemon cucumbers this year and they began the wilt and there were beetles (the squirrels dug up the lemons I started). Diva had some wilting but nothing like the lemon. I gave up for this year and will try Diva again.

I think some plants may be more resistant and sometimes, we bring something home we certainly didn't plan on. I think that is what happened here. Until I bought plants, the rest were just fine.