Pest Control for Bird Gardening
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SPECIFIC USES |
RECOMMENDED TREATMENT |
SPECIFIC USES |
RECOMMENDED TREATMENT |
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Ants |
Permethrin, pyrethrum. |
Blight on potato and tomato: |
Copper, maneb or zineb. |
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Aphids
— on fruits — on vegetables and ornamental plants |
Spray before blossoming with dimethoate, formothion, malathion or chlorpyrifos. Fenitrothion, malathion or pirimicarb. (Some plants can be damaged by these — checkbefore use). |
Bulb and corn diseases: |
Treat before planting with quintozene dust; dip in benomyl or thiophanate-methyl. |
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Blackcurrant gall mite |
Lime sulphur. |
Dumping-off of seedlings: |
Copper or quintozene; thrum (as seed dressing). |
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Caterpillars on vegetables |
Chlorpyrifos, derris or permethrin. |
Leaf spots: |
Benomyl, copper, maneb (roses), thiophanate-methyl, thirarn or zineb. |
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Cabbage fly |
Bromophos or chlorpyrifos. |
Mildews: Downy Powdery |
Zineb Benomyl, copper, dinocap, sulphur, thiophanate-methyl. |
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Carrot fly |
Bromophos or chlorpyrifos. |
Moulds: — on soft fruit on vegetables and pot plants |
Benoyml, clichlofluanid, thiophanate-methyl or thiram. |
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Codling moth |
Chlorpyrifos, permethrin or fenitrothion. |
Rusts: |
rvlaneb, thiram or zineb. |
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Cutworms |
Bromophos or chlorpyrifos. |
Scabs on apples and pears: |
Benomyl, copper, sulphur (not sulphur-shy varieties), thiophanate-methyl or thiram. |
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Onion fly |
Bromophos or chlorpyrifos. |
Turf diseases: |
Quintozene or thiophanate-methyl |
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Raspberry beetle |
Derris dust, fenitrothion or malathion. |
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Red spider mite |
Derris (roses), dimethoate, malathion orchlorpyrifos. |
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Sawflies |
Chlorpyrifos, dimethoate or fenitrothion. |
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Thrips |
Derris (roses), fenitrothion or malathion. |
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Wasps |
Carbaryl. |
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Winter moths on fruit trees |
Chlorpyrifos, fenitrothion or permethrin. |
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