Last week’s mention of some new “green” products in the
industry, stirred up a few questions about the effectiveness and the names of
these “green” products. The terms LEED, NOP (National Organic Program)
compliant, and FIFRA 25(b) exempt will be used in this article to describe the
products “green” credentials. When I
talk or write about new products, the products could be on the market for
several years and I have just received enough results from the field to know
the product will work well enough to recommend. Manufactures sometimes have to modify
their formulas for better results, as well. The “green” products are a big push
in the Pest Control Industry, so this article will have several parts.
The Essentria line of products by Envincio are getting great
reviews. The products are N.O.P. compliant and FIFRA 25(b) exempt. The essential oils that comprise the active ingredients
in Essentria products work by disrupting the neurotransmitter function in
target insects. In invertebrates, with their simpler nervous systems, a
multi-functional chemical known as octopamine handles many of these functions.
By targeting octopamine receptors, these essential oils provide insecticidal
activity with a much wider margin of safety than other products. Because
vertebrates like birds, fish, dogs and people don’t have octopamine receptors; they
are not affected by this unique mode of action.
Essentria IC3 is a liquid that
has a very broad label. Inside some of the insects it is labeled for include:
exposed stages of crawling insects including, but
not limited to, ants, bed bugs, cockroaches, cadelles, cigarette beetles, dark
mealworms, dried fruit beetles, drugstore beetles, confused floor beetles,
fleas, grain mites, fowl mites, mites, nuisance beetles (such as lady beetles),
red flour beetles, rice weevils, sawtoothed grain beetles, spiders, spider
beetles, and yellow mealworms. Outside some of the insects it will control on
turf include: Ants, Armyworms, Billbugs, Chinch Bugs, Chiggers, Crickets,
Cutworms, Earwigs, Fleas, Grasshoppers, Hyperodes Weevils (adults), Japanese
Beetles (adults), Mole Crickets, Sod Webworms and Ticks.
IC3 can also be used safely on
docks for spiders, mosquitoes and gnats. Bees, wasps, flies, and biting flies
are also on the label.
Two other products in the
Essentria line of products are a granular product that is great for lawns and
an aerosol that is used mainly indoors for bedbugs, fleas, and their eggs.
Controlling the eggs is a huge benefit especially with these two nuisance bugs.
There is also a wasp, hornet, and yellow jacket killer that knocks them dead
out of the air.
Preemerge for small seeded
summer annual weeds now!
Always read, understand and follow product label. The
product label is a Federal Law.
