Lightning from the Colorado potato beetle: instructions for use

The leaves and tops of potatoes, the tubers of which are boiled, baked, fried, put in salads and soups, are destroyed by the striped pest. To get rid of it, the bushes are sprayed using a special remedy for the Colorado potato beetle.

Lightning drug copes with both larvae and adults. The insecticide is not quickly addictive in the insect, which quickly adapts to various conditions and chemicals. Most of the poisons on the body of this pest cease to act after repeated use.

Product description

The active ingredient in Lightning is alpha-cypermethrin.This synthetic substance paralyzes pests, destroying their nervous system. The insecticide, falling on the plant, is absorbed into the leaves. When the green mass is eaten by the Colorado potato beetle, the drug penetrates into the body of the insect, activates the channels of cell membranes, as a result of which nerve conduction is affected, the muscular system ceases to perform its functions.

An adult, having tasted Lightning, dies in 20 minutes, the larvae can last a day. The insecticide is packaged in different containers:

in vials of 10 milliliters;
in ampoules (2 ml);
in cans (5l).

An annotation is attached to each package of the product. The owner of the garden or field selects the required amount of the drug for processing potatoes.

Lightning is combined with pesticides used for spraying crops, but not mixed with preparations that contain a high percentage of acids and alkalis, as the effect of the insecticide deteriorates.

The secret of efficiency

After eating leaves in which alpha-cypermethrin has been absorbed, the muscles of the Colorado potato beetle are paralyzed, it stops moving and falls to the ground in just a few minutes. After processing the site with Lightning, which belongs to the third class of danger, pests appear on the bushes no earlier than 3 weeks later. Compared to other means, the insecticide has clear advantages:

Acts fast and long.
Does not lose effectiveness after rain.
Tolerates heat well.
Consumed sparingly.

The disadvantages of Lightning include high toxicity to beneficial insects that pollinate plants. Due to repeated use, pests are able to develop resistance to the main substance present in the chemical.To prevent this from happening, you need to change the means.

What insects does it work against?

Insecticide protects garden trees, shrubs, vegetables and crops from mites, caterpillars, fights against aphids, bark beetles, sawflies.

When spraying cabbage with Lightning, they die:

cruciferous fleas;
mol;
scoop;
fugitive.

One treatment for such a vegetable crop is enough for a month. The insecticide destroys the codling moth, leafworm, spider mites on apple trees, gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries, and grapes. The tool is effective in the fight against weevil, rapeseed beetle. To protect against the Colorado potato beetle, Lightning is sprayed with tomatoes and eggplants.

Instructions for use

Before using an insecticide, you need to carefully study the annotation, since the consumption rates for the destruction of different pests are different.Potatoes are sprayed at the time of the greatest accumulation of Colorado potato beetles. Beets are treated for weevil when shoots appear, locusts are fought during the development and growth of larvae.

It is better for owners of small plots to purchase insecticide in ampoules, two are enough to spray hundreds of potatoes, one piece is dissolved in a bucket of water. From ticks and codling moths, apple trees are treated at the rate of 0.5 liters of emulsion per hectare of plantings. To destroy the leafworm and aphids on fruit bushes, 0.3 liters of Lightning are bred.

It is better to start spraying in the morning or in the evening, when the air temperature does not exceed 25 degrees, there is no strong wind. A sprayer is included with the package, which helps to distribute the prepared solution.

Precautions

Before processing plants, it is necessary to put on overalls, socks, a hat, protect your eyes with goggles, face with a mask, respiratory tract with a respirator. If the insecticide enters the human body,

Dizziness occurs.
Body temperature rises sharply.
Tormented by nausea and weakness.

Means Lightning is a danger to bees, so spraying is desirable to carry out before the appearance of flowers on the potato. It is necessary to store the insecticide without opening the package. The prepared solution is used immediately.

When spraying plants with poisonous agents, do not smoke or eat food. In case of poisoning with the drug, you need to drink plenty of water. This will help induce vomiting. Then take activated charcoal.

Analogues

Karate is a drug that has a similar mechanism of action to Lightning. The tool contains an active ingredient - lambda cyhalothrim, refers to pyrethroids.

Tanrek destroys pests of flower crops, copes with locust, whitefly, Colorado potato beetle, blocking their nervous system. This insecticide is used when pyrethroids stop working on pests.

Mospilan is produced on the basis of acetamiprid in Russia. The tool fights weevils, destroys the larvae of thrips, bedbugs, Colorado potato beetle.

To protect potato fields and garden beds from insects, farmers and summer residents treat bushes with Regent, Fastak, Bi-58 used to control various types of pests.

Lightning is one of the most effective chemical insecticides.