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  Tip of the Week Text-Only Edition

  Date- July 11, 2002   Issue #30
 
  
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   IN THIS ISSUE
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    => Chinch Bugs
       Life after Dursban...
    
    


   
   
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 Gardenline Tip of the Week - Randy Lemmon
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While it would be easy to re-issue last year's Chinch Bug
email tip, I can't because first I promised that last week
would be the last of the re-hash, and second we need to
discuss a couple of the new products on the market that
may actually work well against chinch bugs now that Dursban
is gone.

Of course, if you still have liquid Dursban on your shelf
(and that is perfectly legal) you can still use it.
However, people new to the area and new to Gardenline may
need a bit more help than that.

Let's start with the permanent tip sheet at our website
to help you with identification purposes.  I also teach
you a couple of tests to find out if you do indeed have
chinch bugs.  click below for that tip sheet.

http://950kprc.com/gardenline-chinchbugs.html

Then, there are some of the newer products on the market
to look for.  In the tip sheet it simply discusses the
synthetic pyrethroids that essentially have replaced
Dursban.  But there's also Imidaclorip and Bifenthrin
(Talstar).  Imidacloprid products are usually under the
marketed name of Merit and mostly sold as Bayer products.
The somewhat newer Bifenthrin has been a termiticide for
years in the industrial market, but companies like Scotts
is now marketing it in a fertilizer along with the
Bifenthrin.

Bifenthrin used to be known as Talstar, but we just 
don't see it marketed that way down here.  Finally,
there's also a relatively new product known as
Mach II, and it's active ingredient is Halofenozide
(yep, that's why they gave it a cute name like MachII).
Hi Yield/Fertilome has that product this year also
incorporated into a fertilizer.  Halofenozide Is from
the Dow AgroSciences company that gave is Dursban for
years.  Oh by the way, Dursban's technical name was 
Chlorpyrifos.

The most important thing I need you to take away
from this tip and the permanent one at the website
is that if you have chinch bugs, liquid controls work
best.  If you want to prevent them from being a problem
those granular fertilzers like the Scotts and 
Fertilome/Hi Yield product will suffice.

Finally, here's a good website for more Q & A
on chinch bugs.  It's based in Florida.  And there
is one problem.  They say one treatment will work for
the season.  Here in Texas, nothing could be further
from the truth.  Just listen to the GardenLine over
the next few months and I'll help prove that point
with callers, who treat once and never get a handle
on the chinch bug problem.   Click here...

http://floridaturf.com/chinch/
  
Until next week, here's to Great Gardening from the
GardenLine, heard exclusively weekend mornings from 8 to
noon on Talkradio 950 KPRC. 
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