Weirdness in my cukes!

[SundayAfternoon]

Ok, something odd happening in my little veggie patch today.

I noticed that the stems of my cukes, and the fruit of my melon both suffering from oozing brown 'juice'. The stems of the cukes (most noticeably the growing tips, but also lower down the plant too). And the one little melon that I had.

Where this brown sticky looking substance was, the areas were dying.

Thinking it was gummy stem, after googling about the Internet for a bit, I decided to cut them down. (Heartbreaking, because in all other respects both were healthy, tall, bushy).

The weirdness?

Inside the 'sticky areas' were maggots. All in the stems of the cukes, and the inside of the melon! Gross!

Anyone ever have anything like this happen?

This is my third attempt at both cukes and melons, and my third failure. I'm giving up on both these species, especially heirlooms!

[loong]

Not sure if there are Delia platura in Thailand or not. I've occasionally had something similar in my bean and sweet potato stems

[SundayAfternoon]

I'll have to google that one Loong as I've never heard of it. Totally grossed me out, whatever they were though! Was NOT expecting maggits in a live plant! Ew.