I finally figured out what is mating on my cukes: squash bugs.
Source: wiktionary
Cuke
Synonyms for "cuke" (2 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
By the time she was nine, Nina was traveling to distant markets on her own to sell her family's fresh tomatoes, beans, squash, zukes, cukes, peppers[…]
Source: wiktionary