Sonnet from the Colorado potato beetle: instructions for use

For more than a dozen years, farmers and summer residents have been fighting an insect that is destroying entire fields of nightshade crops with great speed. Sonnet from the Colorado potato beetle does not work like many insecticides, to which the striped pest quickly gets used and continues to multiply. The larvae that have appeared are no longer afraid of poisons, they intensively eat the leaves, potato and eggplant leaves.

Product description

Sonet is produced by Technoexport in the form of an emulsion packed in ampoules or plastic bottles. The active ingredient of the insecticide is hexaflumuron, which destroys the upper cover of adult insects, kills larvae, and destroys eggs.Subject to safety rules during the preparation of the product and the processing of plants, the drug is harmless to humans.

The active component of the insecticide promotes the dissolution of the wings and abdomen of the beetle, prevents the formation of a chitinous cover, and destroys insatiable offspring. After eating leaves sprayed with Sonnet, the insect stops growing and multiplying. The eggs laid by the female do not hatch into larvae.

The secret of efficiency

The main component of the insecticide retains properties at high temperatures, after rain, the emulsion is not washed off with water. One treatment is enough to destroy a huge number of adult Colorado potato beetles and larvae. The drug is valid for a month and a half. The poison is absorbed into the leaves in just three hours. Insects do not develop addiction to such an insecticide.

The secret of Sonnet's effectiveness is that it has a negative effect on pests at all stages of their development, is resistant to changes in humidity and sudden temperature fluctuations.

What insects does it work against?

One spray saves a potato bed from destruction by arthropod leaf beetles. Processing should be carried out until the plant begins to bloom. The Colorado potato beetle remedy is great for other pests:

• lily hoverfly;
• codling moth;
• potato cow.

Quickly adapted to the chemicals of the redfly. An insect that mates in early spring eats the leaves and buds of the lily. When processed by the Sonnet, it dies. To destroy the codling moth, the insecticide is combined with neurotoxic drugs.

It is not recommended to spray strawberries against the invasion of weevils, the emulsion worsens the taste of berries.

Instructions for use

Before using the drug, you need to carefully read the annotation, which contains a detailed description of how this remedy works, how the solution is prepared. Shortly before processing plants:

1. The contents of the ampoule or 2 ml from the bottle are stirred in water.
2. Add another 10 liters of liquid.
3. Sprinkle potato leaves.

This amount of insecticide is enough for a hundred square beds. Less is needed for the processing of young bushes. Pest control is easier when they first appear. Unlike other preparations, Sonnet copes with insects in one spray. Beetles are completely dead after 4 or 5 days, but treatment should be done in the morning and in dry weather.

Precautions

The active component of the insecticide penetrates the leaves, which insects feast on. Despite the assertion that the tool is not dangerous to humans, you should not ignore the rules for its use. To prevent the negative effects of Sonnet on the body:

1. You can not increase the dosage prescribed in the annotation.
2. To reduce the release of toxic substances, you need to stop spraying plants in the heat.
3. Insecticide treatment should be done with gloves and a respirator.
4. The emulsion must be diluted in a special container, not in a food dish.

When spraying potatoes before flowering, the drug does not get into the tubers, acts more efficiently, does not pose a danger to bees. Colorado beetles have not yet developed the ability to get used to the insecticide that destroys the chitinous shell.

Analogues

Many chemicals are produced to control insects. It fights codling moths and mites, sawflies and cabbage scoops, kills Colorado beetles with Karate insecticide. The main component of the drug is lambda cyhalothrin. The emulsion is mixed with water, it is used sparingly, but it protects plants from pests for no more than 2 weeks, so re-treatment is required.

The drug Inta-vir, which is produced on the basis of cypermethrin, causes convulsions, affecting the nervous system:

• potato ladybug;
• codling moths;
• bugs;
• carrot fly;
• Colorado potato beetle.

Some pests are developing resistance to this insecticide. Another disadvantage of the product is that it destroys insects that pollinate vegetables and fruit trees.

Aktara affects the digestive tract of Colorado beetles. After processing the leaves with the drug, these arthropods stop eating them and die after a day. The agent is not only sprayed with potatoes, but also the composition is applied under the root of flower plants, currant and raspberry bushes to destroy scale insects and aphids.

In 2 days copes with adults and larvae of the Colorado potato beetle Tanrek. Pests do not get used to imidacloprid, which is the active ingredient of the insecticide, the product does not adversely affect potatoes and other vegetable crops.

The drug is not washed off with water, does not respond to a decrease or increase in temperature. Protects against insects for three weeks. Reprocessing is not necessary.

Some summer residents do not want to use chemicals to control the Colorado potato beetle, preferring biological means. The striped pest does not like the smell of tansy, calendula. He does not like dill, garlic, onions. If in a gentle way it is not possible to defeat pests, you have to select an insecticide. Sonnet is safe for humans, animals and beneficial insects, it works for a long time, it protects potatoes at an early stage.

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