Safe way to spray
Wait for settled weather with little wind and no rain. Dress yourself well, wear long sleeves and rubber gloves, follow packet direction carefully. If you suffer from allergies, wear a...
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How Do You Choose The Right Product
You may find it very difficult choosing pest control products in a nursery or supermarket, as highly toxic products are on the same shelf as relatively harmless ones. We often...
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Whitefly Organic Control Information
The Basics The adults are small white moth-like flies, 1 mm in length. Eggs are laid on the undersides of leaves and hatch in 8 days. Both newly hatched 'crawlers'...
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Weed Organic Control Information
Weed Control Much as we may hate them, weeds have an ecological role to play in reclaiming degraded soils and re-establishing damaged soil structure. Weeds are always present but only...
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Tick Organic Control Information
Tick Control Ticks are blood-sucking insects that can carry life threatening disease to humans as well as animals. These include Queensland tick typhus and Spotted fever. The bite alone can...
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Thrip Organic Control Information
Thrip Control Thrips are small sap-sucking insects, usually 1-2 mm long with long, narrow bodies, they are just visible to the naked eye. They generally feed on either leaves or...
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Three-Lined Potato Beetle Organic Control Information
Three-Lined Potato Beetle Control Lema daturaphila syn. Lema trivittataSyn. Three-lined Lema Beetle This leaf-eating beetle pest and its offspring are a menace to plants in the Solanaceae family such as...
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Spined Citrus Bug Organic Control Information
Spined Citrus Bug Control The adult spined citrus bug has projecting horns on either side of its head, the young change colour from yellow through orange and finally to green....
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Spider Mite Organic Control Information
The Basics The two-spotted mite or spider mite Tetranychus urticae is a tiny creature (about the size of a full stop) that damages plants by feeding on the chlorophyll in...
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Slug and Snail Organic Control Information
The Basics If overnight newly planted seedlings are disappearing and there are large holes in your plants, the culprits are probably snails or slugs. Usually a close look at the...
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Silverfish Organic Control Information
Silverfish Control Silverfish are starch feeders and can seriously damage paper and fabrics. Older, hardback books are greatly at risk due to the glues used in their construction. Silverfish prefer...
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Scale Organic Control Information
The Basics Scales are small sucking insects closely related to aphids, mealy bugs and whitefly. They tend to have small, round shells and are often found along the veins of...
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Pests of Stored Food Organic Control Information
Pests of Stored Food Control These include grain moths, flour moths, meal moths, almond moths, raisin moths, beetles and weevils. For problems with ants or cockroaches check for information under...
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