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Originally Posted by rbarata
I use a spray named "Calypso", manufacturer is Bayer.
I tuses tiaclopride, which seems to be an "evolution" of imidacloprid.
I used it so save a den affected by a huge mealy bug attack, 3 applications (together with a cleaning and repoting) were enough to clean it till today.
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Well, I had - god only knows what it is. It's a white, soft bug, looks a bit like cochinilla, but doesn't have red blood, and it isn't cushion scale, and it is the very devil to shift.
It was on a Den Nobile, and what I do is two doses, two weeks apart, and each time soak the medium too.
So far that has been enough, but any other problems and I bring in the CHAS 48 as backup.
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We get a beetle here that eats all the petals off the garden flowers in Spring, so I bring out the imacloprid tooty sweety, as it's systemic nature means that the beetles die if they eat the sprayed petals. It's also a contact insecticide. I'd get up to a plant with a hundred beetles on it and start spaying like a mad thing. Every now and then a beetle would sense that a Bad Thing was about to happen, and get airborne. So I would try and hit him with the spray, and he would make maybe 15 metres and fall out of the air like a stone.
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