Hey......I ain't compainin'! haha Just curious......I made a cattle panel arch to grow my Waltham butternut squash up last year and most of it grew upwards. I also planted a little bit of marigolds around the base. I didn't plant any zucchini. Didn't get any squash bugs.

Did the same thing this year......although the butternut squash was very slow and preferred to grow on the ground. Planted marigolds again. Didn't plant any zucchini again. With those 3 variables (growing sort of up a trellis/planted marigolds/didn't grow zucchini), I'm thinking the zucchini not being there may have helped the most. they seem to attack the zucchini the most........and make hundreds/thousands of bugs that also end up on the squash. What do you think? I'd love to grow zucchini again, but I sure do enjoy not having the squash bugs.