has a direct effect on squash bugs?
now onto the sunflowers. the first year i grew mammoth sunflowers, they did fantastic! grew to about 12' high, big beautiful heads, and attracted lots of bees from far away which was the purpose. last year they grew well again, but as soon as the flower head was starting to open, some kind of insect chewed the heads off! yikes! and it seemed to be the only damage done to the plants. the only bugs i have actually seen on the sunflowers are ants. i'm not sure why they love them so much but they do. but i don't think ants would chew the 