INSECTS & WORM-LIKE PARASITES

Adults are oval, yellowish-brown to copper colored beetles, 1/4” (6mm) long with 16 black spots arranged in three rows across wing covers. They look much like beneficial lady beetles. Larvae are fat, yellowish-orange grubs up to 1/3” (8mm) in length with no legs and with six rows of long, branching spines protruding from their segments. Eggs are yellow ovals. Both larvae and adults feed from the underside on leaf tissue between the veins; they skeletonize the leaves, leaving behind a characteristic lacy appearance. In severe attacks, production of pods may be reduced and completely defoliated, killing the plants. The greatest damage occurs in summer. Bean beetles are most abundant in weedless fields. Plants affected include Cowpea, Lima Bean, Snap Bean, and Soybean.

LIFE CYCLE. Adults overwinter in garden debris or in leaf litter in nearby fields. Some emerge to feed by the time the first bean leaves are up, while others straggle out of hiding over a period of several months. In spring, the beetles feed for a couple of weeks, then females lay eggs on end in clusters of 40-60 on undersides of bean leaves. Eggs hatch in 5-14 days and larvae feed for 2-5 weeks. They pupate in a case attached to the underside of a leaf and adults emerge in about a week. Upon emergence, new adults are solid yellow. They soon darken and the spots become visible. One to four generations per year. In late summer, large numbers of beetles emerge from fields.

DIRECTIONS FOR CONTROL. Spray immediately when eggs hatch during early leaf growth. This will provide protection and give the plants a healthy start. Repeat as needed to control pests, paying attention to the life cycle of the beetle in your region. For vegetables, spray again as pods begin to form. Repeat as needed.

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The Bean Beetle Complex has also been proven to be effective on a wide variety of harmful beetle species.

Adults are oval, yellowish-brown to copper colored beetles, 1/4” (6mm) long with 16 black spots arranged in three rows across wing covers. They look much like beneficial lady beetles. Larvae are fat, yellowish-orange grubs up to 1/3” (8mm) in length with no legs and with six rows of long, branching spines protruding from their segments. Eggs are yellow ovals. Both larvae and adults feed from the underside on leaf tissue between the veins; they skeletonize the leaves, leaving behind a characteristic lacy appearance. In severe attacks, production of pods may be reduced and completely defoliated, killing the plants. The greatest damage occurs in summer. Bean beetles are most abundant in weedless fields. Plants affected include Cowpea, Lima Bean, Snap Bean, and Soybean.

LIFE CYCLE. Adults overwinter in garden debris or in leaf litter in nearby fields. Some emerge to feed by the time the first bean leaves are up, while others straggle out of hiding over a period of several months. In spring, the beetles feed for a couple of weeks, then females lay eggs on end in clusters of 40-60 on undersides of bean leaves. Eggs hatch in 5-14 days and larvae feed for 2-5 weeks. They pupate in a case attached to the underside of a leaf and adults emerge in about a week. Upon emergence, new adults are solid yellow. They soon darken and the spots become visible. One to four generations per year. In late summer, large numbers of beetles emerge from fields.

DIRECTIONS FOR CONTROL. Spray immediately when eggs hatch during early leaf growth. This will provide protection and give the plants a healthy start. Repeat as needed to control pests, paying attention to the life cycle of the beetle in your region. For vegetables, spray again as pods begin to form. Repeat as needed.

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The Bean Beetle Complex has also been proven to be effective on a wide variety of harmful beetle species.

These familiar garden inhabitants vary in size, color and, to some extent, in habits. All kinds have a well-developed social organization with a queen and workers. The majority of the larvae hatched from the eggs are sterile workers but a certain percentage are winged males and females. After mating, the male dies while the female flies to a suitable site, tears off her wings, makes a small nest and lays eggs. The whitish maggot-like grubs (young larvae) are cared for by the females until they are full-grown workers, when they in turn care for the queen and her young.

ANTS AS PESTS: Ants do not feed on plants but become garden pests because of the unsightly hills or nests they form in lawns and especially because of their habit of fostering aphids. Ants, often seen swarming over the succulent tips of plants and are there to obtain the aphid excreta called honeydew. The relationship between ants and the corn and strawberry root aphids benefits both. In autumn, ants carry the aphid eggs underground and nurse them over winter; in the spring they carry them to some succulent weed host where the young can obtain nourishment. Later they carry the adult aphids around and “pasture” them on corn roots. The aphids have become so dependent on ants for transportation that they have practically lost the means of locomotion.

DIRECTIONS FOR CONTROL: Mix and apply with sprayer if ants are present on foliage. This will reduce the ant from becoming a host to other pests and their eggs. The mixture maybe poured directly into the ant hill. Once you’ve located the ant hill, make holes 8 to 10 inches apart with a sharp stick deep enough to reach the center of the nest (3 to 6 inches). Fill each hole with Ant Complex mixture. Repeat as necessary to deter ants from area.

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Remember, Ant Complex will help in the control of aphids.

These are insects of the order Diptera (meaning two-winged) which includes mosquitoes, gnats and midges. This is the most dangerous insect order as far as carrying of human and animal diseases is concerned, but it numbers comparatively few as crop pests. Among those injurious to plants are certain gall flies like the Hessian fly, many fruit flies, various bulb flies, the cabbage, apple, and onion maggots, some root maggots, and a few leaf miners and borers in the stems of plants. The larvae are legless maggots with chewing mouth-parts which seldom feed externally on plants. They usually live buried in decaying vegetable matter or inside the plants.

LIFE CYCLE: Consisting of an egg stage, larva (maggot) and the adult. The fly breeds in all types of fresh excrement (in human feces, cattle and horse manure piles) and most decaying vegetation.

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Although not plant pests, these insects deserve mention as familiar garden nuisances and in some cases, as health menaces as carriers of Malaria, Zika virus, and other human diseases. It is the adult that annoys by “biting” and “stinging”, the mouth parts being a piercing-sucking type. The aquatic larvae (“wrigglers”) and pupae (“tumblers”) are both quite active, living in stagnant or slow-moving water often just beneath the surface film. The wigglers are elongated, hairy, and have a distinct, movable head. The pupae are ovoid, with a suspended, movable abdomen tipped with flat paddles and a pair of breathing trumpets or siphons projecting anteriorly from the thorax.

LIFE CYCLE: Mosquitoes winter either in the egg stage, as adults (females) in cellars, sheds, hollow trees, etc., or in some cases, as larvae in the mud of stagnant ponds or even frozen in the ice. They develop only in water. The eggs form tiny rafts resembling bits of soot floating on the surface wherever water stands for a few days. When hatching, they produce the familiar “wrigglers” often seen in rain barrels and such places. These active little creatures breathe through openings at their posterior end which, when they are at rest, is at the surface while their large heads point downward. After a few days they change to active pupae called “tumblers” and these in turn change to adults in anywhere from a few days to weeks.

DIRECTIONS FOR CONTROL: Add 2-6 drops per liter or quart of water. Mix and apply with sprayer. Great for controlling mosquitoes in and around golf courses, hotel properties, camp grounds, outdoor restaurants, and residential yards. Spray directly on foliage and plant vegetation including grasses. The use of Mosquito Complex will help reduce the pest which causes diseases.

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NOTE: There are approximately 1000 drops per ounce (28g). Use a standard eye dropper for easy measuring. One ounce (28g) makes up to 125 gallons (473 liters).

Microscopic worm-like animals, tubular or thread-like in form, called also nemas or nematodes or round-worms. They live in moist soil, water, decaying organic matter and tissues of other living organisms. Eel worms form a part of the normal soil fauna; some are pathogenic, causing diseases in man, animals and plants; others live on and destroy the pathogenic forms and are therefore beneficial. Corn, lettuce, pepper, potato, tomato, and other plants are susceptible to root eel worms. Alfalfa, chrysanthemum, onions, rye, and other plants are attacked by leaf eel worms. Feeding by root eel worms causes lesions and galls on roots and stimulates excessive root branching.

Above ground, plants wilt. Their growth is stunted and the plants may die. Leaf eel worms cause leaf galls or lesions and distorted leaves.

LIFE CYCLE: Females lay eggs in masses or eggs may remain inside the female to hatch when she dies. Most species have a mobile larval stage that moves through the soil on a film of water to infest the plant. The adult stage is reached after several molts. Life cycle takes 3-4 weeks.

DIRECTIONS FOR CONTROL: For root watering, add 2-6 drops per liter or quart of water. Mix and apply with sprayer, watering container or automatic drip system. Apply immediately as roots start to form and again in 21 days as growth begins to emerge. This will provide protection and give the plants a healthy start. Repeat as needed to control pests, paying attention to the life cycle of the eel worm. For leaf eel worm, use the same mixture and spray before sun depletes natural moisture on foliage.

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NOTE: There are approximately 1000 drops per ounce (28g). Use a standard eye dropper for easy measuring. One ounce (28g) makes up to 125 gallons (473 liters). NOTE: Apply day or evening

Although not plant pests, these insects deserve mention as familiar garden nuisances and in some cases, as health menaces as carriers of Malaria, Zika virus, and other human diseases. It is the adult that annoys by “biting” and “stinging”, the mouth parts being a piercing-sucking type. The aquatic larvae (“wrigglers”) and pupae (“tumblers”) are both quite active, living in stagnant or slow-moving water often just beneath the surface film. The wigglers are elongated, hairy, and have a distinct, movable head. The pupae are ovoid, with a suspended, movable abdomen tipped with flat paddles and a pair of breathing trumpets or siphons projecting anteriorly from the thorax.

LIFE CYCLE: Mosquitoes winter either in the egg stage, as adults (females) in cellars, sheds, hollow trees, etc., or in some cases, as larvae in the mud of stagnant ponds or even frozen in the ice. They develop only in water. The eggs form tiny rafts resembling bits of soot floating on the surface wherever water stands for a few days. When hatching, they produce the familiar “wrigglers” often seen in rain barrels and such places. These active little creatures breathe through openings at their posterior end which, when they are at rest, is at the surface while their large heads point downward. After a few days they change to active pupae called “tumblers” and these in turn change to adults in anywhere from a few days to weeks.

DIRECTIONS FOR CONTROL: Add 2-6 drops per liter or quart of water. Mix and apply with sprayer. Great for controlling mosquitoes in and around golf courses, hotel properties, camp grounds, outdoor restaurants, and residential yards. Spray directly on foliage and plant vegetation including grasses. The use of Mosquito Complex will help reduce the pest which causes diseases.

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NOTE: There are approximately 1000 drops per ounce (28g). Use a standard eye dropper for easy measuring. One ounce (28g) makes up to 125 gallons (473 liters).

Adults are common white “cabbage butterflies,” with 1-1/2” (4cm) wingspans. The forewings have black tips and two to three black spots. Larvae are velvety green caterpillars with a fine yellow stripe down the back. Eggs are tiny yellow cones. Larvae eat large, ragged holes in leaves and heads of cabbage and chew florets of cauliflower and broccoli. As they feed, they produce quantities of dark green droppings.

LIFE CYCLE: Pupae spend the winter in garden debris. Adults emerge in early spring and lay eggs on the undersides of leaves. Larvae feed 2-3 weeks, then pupate in garden trash on soil surface. The adults emerge in 1-2 weeks. Three to five overlapping generations are produced per year. All ages of larvae may be present all season.

DIRECTIONS FOR CONTROL: The complex should be applied three times during each generation. 1) When the larvae appear. 2) Within 2 weeks when larvae fall to the ground, apply complex directly to the soil. This will help limit the production of the adult cabbage butterfly. 3) During the adult butterfly stage. Repeat as needed to control pests, paying attention to the life cycle of the insect in your region. For fruits and vegetables, spray again as fruit begins to form.

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Adults: mothlike, 1/20” insects with powdery white wings. Most rest on the undersides of top leaves of plants. Larvae: flattened, legless, translucent, 1/30” scales found on the undersides of lower leaves. Eggs are gray or yellow pinpoint cones, often laid in semicircles on leaf undersides. Nymphs and adults suck plant juices, weakening plants. Sooty mold grows on honeydew excreted on leaves and fruit. Feeding spreads virus diseases.

LIFE CYCLE: Females lay eggs which hatch in 2 days into mobile scales. These molt to a legless nymphal stage and continue to feed on undersides of leaves until they pupate in place on the leaf. The life cycle takes 20-30 days at 65-75 degrees Fahrenheit, less time at warmer temperatures. Numerous overlapping generations occur per year, continuing all winter in greenhouses and warm climates.

DIRECTIONS FOR CONTROL: Apply to foliage immediately as roots start to form, and apply again in 21 days as growth begins to emerge. This will provide protection and give the plants a healthy start. Repeat as needed to control pests, paying attention to the life cycle of the whitefly. Be sure to spray the undersides of leaves as well.

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Popular term for a young insect (larva) of the order Lepidoptera, the adult form of which is a moth or a butterfly. It has soft, cylindrical body composed of 13 segments besides the head. The first three of these segments have one pair of jointed appendages (legs) each, which sets all caterpillars apart from the true worms they somewhat resemble. The abdominal segments usually bear soft fleshy projections called prolegs, usually five pair. Caterpillars are also characterized by the presence of spinnerets near the jaws from which issues the excretion that hardens to form silk from which the creature spins its cocoon. Caterpillars chew on young tree leaves and buds. As pests grow, they move to larger leaves, leaving behind only leaf midribs and large veins. Heavily damaged trees looked scorched. Plants affected: primarily cabbage and related plants; also beet, celery, lettuce, pea, spinach, and tomato; flowers including carnation, nasturtium, and mignonette.

LIFE CYCLE: Adults emerge and lay compact masses of eggs on twigs and branches of dormant trees. Eggs hatch in the spring about the time the first leaves open on trees. Larvae feed for 3-4 weeks, then crawl into the soil to pupate until early winter. Some caterpillars produce up to 4 generations per year.

DIRECTIONS FOR CONTROL: Spray immediately when eggs hatch, repeat again during the larvae stage. During this stage, digging around severed plants lying on the ground in the morning will destroy hiding larvae. When adults emerge, repeat application. This will provide protection and give the plants a healthy start. Repeat as needed to control pests, paying attention to the life cycle of the caterpillar in your region.

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No-Fly-Zone is an all natural BROAD SPECTRUM INSECTICIDE that provides the same results of as a general purpose insecticide, but is created from all natural and organic compounds.

GENERAL PESTS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: Ants, Biting Flies, Blow Flies, Bat Bugs, Bed Bugs, Blue/Green Bottle Flies, Boxelder Bugs, Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs, Carpenter Ants, Carpenter Bees, Carpet Beetles, Cigarette Beetles, Clothes Moths, Cluster Flies, Cockroaches , Flour Beetles, Crickets, Darkling Beetles, Dermestids, Drain Flies, Dung Flies, Drugstore Beetles, Earwigs, Face Flies, Fleas, Firebrats, Fruit Flies, Gnats, House Flies, Indianmeal Moths, Kudzu Bugs, Lice, Midges, Millipedes, Mites, Multi-colored Asian Lady Beetles, Mosquitoes, Phorid Flies, Other Pantry Beetles & Moths, Sciarid Flies (fungus gnats), Silverfish, Spiders, Springtails, Stable Flies, Stink Bugs, Termites*, Ticks, Wood-destroying Beetles, Western Conifer Seed Bugs, and Yellow Jackets

* This product is not recommended as sole protection against Termites and is not approved as a pre-construction treatment for Subterranean Termites.

TREE, SHRUB AND VEGETATION PESTS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

Aphids and their eggs, Armyworms, Bagworms, Beetles, Billbugs, Chinch Bugs, Chiggers, Cutworms, Grasshoppers, Grubs, Japanese Beetles, Lace Bugs, Mealybugs, Mole Crickets, Mites, Scale insects, Sod Webworms, Tent Caterpillars, Thrips, and Whiteflies and their eggs.

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