THEY CUCUMBER BEETLES I GUESS HAVE ABOUT TOOK OVER MY GARDEN. LITTLE GREEN FLYING BUGS WHAT CAN I DO TO FIGHT THEM AND GET RID OF THEM WILL THEY ALSO KILL MY BUSH BEANS,CORN ETC HELP PLEASE THANK YOU 1 ACRE CLAY

I've heard that you can take yellow card stock and cover it with petroleum jelly- set it out in your garden and trap the little buggers. I've always pinched them to death before they took over, but we have a medium sized garden. You could always try a small portable vacuum cleaner to suck up the beasties, but that might only work on sow bugs and earwigs.

mindwing

Last year the nasty little things completely overran my garden. This year I started early with home made, yellow sticky traps I baited with clove oil. I also check everything at least twice a day and either squish them or suck them up with my little hand vac. I have some volunteer gourds and squash growing I use as bait too since the beetles and vine borers just can't leave them alone.

I only find a few now when I check for them but I'm still diligent as ever since I know what could happen and wake up to the beasts everywhere.

First we need to be talking about the right insect. Proper Identification is necessary so the proper controls can be suggested.
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef311.asp is a link to a website about Cucumber Beetles with pictures of the striped and spotted. If yours do not look like these we have a different problem.
Since things such as earwigs and sowbugs are not that much of a concern, and actually aid in recycling dead, decaying organic matter, an organic gardener will not unnecessarily eliminate them.

Normally I'd agree with you, Kimm1. But in early spring the earwigs here go crazy for young veggies, and invade everything, including the laundry on the line. In late summer, the sow bugs go crazy for melons and squash, ao we have to go around and put boards under them, and turn them also. Vacuuming them up a few times a year doesn't seem to reduce the population much, but it helps.
Mindwing

Glad you posted that link Kimm - the last cuke I cut had holes eaten near both ends, and just today I saw small beetles that look exactly like the striped ones in your link. Gotta go squash me some bugs...