Is this cutworm or vine borer damage?

[paulnjgarden]

[img]https://img860.imageshack.us/img860/8167/stem.jpg[/img]

This is a squash plant- some of them (that haven't been dug up and killed by a chipmunk/gopher/who knows that I described in another thread) are showing 'split' stems and falling over. The leaves look healthy, just the stem is split.

I sure got some squash issues!

[rainbowgardener]

Does not look like typical vine borer damage, which leaves the stem intact just with a hole in it and sawdusty looking stuff outside the hole. Maybe cutworm or maybe the same thing that was eating the other ones -- the stem looks chewed.

[paulnjgarden]

I'm actually told by some that have seen it that it's just overwatered. Make sense?

[TWC015]

I've noticed this before on some of my plants. It tends to occur when it has been dry and we get a heavy rain. It doesn't seem to affect the plants though.

[rainbowgardener]

Overwatering can make plants yellowish (from nutrients being flushed out) and wilty. It can't chew the stem off.