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INSECTS
Scales Mealybugs
Aphids
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White Grub Issues
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Economic Thresholds
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Population SizeTimingThatch
Position in the SoilWatering (Pre, Post, Saturation)
Chemical Selection
Grub Summary
Solenopsis Invicta
“The Fire Ant will be constricted to an ever-decreasing area until eventually it is driven in to the Gulf. Presumably making its last stand at it’s central
port of entry, the Mobile area.
J.L. George, The Program to Eradicate the Imported Fire Ant (1958)
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TopChoice will control dominant mounds like the one above as well as keeping new mounds from forming.
TopChoice will control dominant mounds like the one above as well as keeping new mounds from forming. Above ground nursery
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Areas like this are perfect for for FireStar bait. Remember the ants must be actively foraging to pick
up the bait.
Areas like this are perfect for for FireStar bait. Remember the ants must be actively foraging to pick
up the bait.
To see if ants are foraging just throw some cheetos down and in 20 minutes
you will know.
To see if ants are foraging just throw some cheetos down and in 20 minutes
you will know.
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Fire ants can move colonies
This is actually the immature stages that died inside a treated mound and were then carried out by workers to a bone
pile. You will not see this phenomenon from any other insecticide application.
The ants have no idea what’s happening to them.
This is actually the immature stages that died inside a treated mound and were then carried out by workers to a bone
pile. You will not see this phenomenon from any other insecticide application.
The ants have no idea what’s happening to them.
Ant mortality takes place when ants come in contact
with the treated soil. This is especially true when workers move the brood up
and store then in the galleries near the
soil surface.
Ant mortality takes place when ants come in contact
with the treated soil. This is especially true when workers move the brood up
and store then in the galleries near the
soil surface.
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