Apaches from the Colorado potato beetle: how to breed, instructions for use

For those who grow potatoes, useful information about the effective Japanese insecticide - Apache from the Colorado potato beetle. The product is produced by the well-known company Sumitomo, which has long been a leader among manufacturers of plant protection products against pests. In our Apache market since 2008.

Composition and release form

Apache insecticide is produced in the form of beige granules. They quickly dissolve in water of any temperature. When working with granules, there is no dust, which is important. The product poses a moderate danger to human he alth, it has a III class of danger.

Most of the 500 g/kg pellets are clothianidin, a substance that belongs to the nicotinoids group.

Tobacco is a well-known remedy for the Colorado potato beetle. Many vegetable growers process potato tops during flowering with an odorous infusion of cigarettes.

The advantages of modern nicotinoids include their qualities:

accumulate in plant tissues;
accumulate in insect tissues;
does not accumulate in the tissues of mammals and humans;
requires a minimum amount of active ingredient to achieve results;
short period of decomposition in the soil;
non-volatile.

Apache is available in 2.5g packs for spraying small potato plantations. Inside the pack are 5 water-soluble sachets of granules, each weighing 0.5g .When preparing the working solution, it is not necessary to pour the granules into water, it is enough to drop the required number of sachets. Farmers are offered 250g Apache plastic bottles

Cost

You can buy a Japanese remedy for a gluttonous beetle via the Internet, it is also available in retail. Small packages weighing 2.5 g cost around 100 rubles. The price of the drug, packaged in 250 g bottles, is 5600 rubles.

How to breed Apaches?

Instructions for use in Russian contains a detailed description of the process of preparing the working fluid from beetles. One pack of Apache weighing 2.5 g is enough for you to process a potato field with an area of 10 acres.

A bag weighing 0.5 g is enough for 2 hundred square meters. To prepare a working fluid for treating potato bushes from a beetle, dilute one (0.5 g) sachet of insecticide in a 10-liter bucket of water.Pour the resulting Apache solution into the sprayer and spray the entire field within a short period of time.

There is an instruction on how to breed Apaches from the Colorado potato beetle to spray a field of 10 acres. It is necessary to dissolve all five bags in 1 liter of water. This volume is enough to prepare 50 liters of liquid poison. Add 200 g of concentrate to each bucket.

Liquid poison can be used to water the soil. For irrigation, a solution of a higher concentration is needed. For 10 liters of water, two bags of 0.5 g of powder are used.

The soil is watered from pests under vegetable and flower crops. The insecticide not only kills the Colorado potato beetle and its larvae, it helps to get rid of thrips, whiteflies, aphids, wireworms.

How does Apache work?

A liquid agent that gets on the leaves penetrates into the tissues of the plant. The beetle-killing concentration of insecticide is retained in sap and tissues for 30 days. Together with the juice and leaves, the drug enters the intestines of the beetles and kills them.

After contact of pests (adults, larvae) with a poisonous liquid or film, their death occurs within half an hour. New shoots and leaves that grow after treatment will contain a killer dose of clothianidin for beetles and larvae for a whole month after using Apache.

Apache - a new generation of insecticides that has a triple effect on voracious insects:

contact;
intestinal;
system.

Rules of application

Apache performance is affected by the weather. In hot weather, when the sun is shining brightly, the treatment is useless and even harmful to plants. It is useless, because the poisonous liquid will evaporate before it can be absorbed into the tissues of the plant. Harmful for potato bushes because drops of liquid on the leaves cause sunburn.

Long rains also become an obstacle for high-quality processing of tops from beetles. The leaves must be dry before starting treatment, otherwise the solution will be less absorbed. At least an hour must pass before the rain, then the desired concentration of insecticide in the tissues of the plant will be reached.

There is no accumulation of poisonous substance in the tubers. A month after processing, the tubers can be eaten. If the potato plantation is properly treated, repeated spraying will not be necessary.

Compatibility

You can combine the processing of potato bushes from the Colorado bugs with feeding on the leaf with growth stimulants. It is permissible to mix laundry soap diluted with water into the poison. Soap liquid improves the adhesion of the product to the leaves.

About harm to he alth and the environment

It is necessary to prepare a working solution and carry out processing in a suit specially designed for this purpose. Hands should be protected with gloves, respiratory organs - with a respirator. Take a shower after finishing work.

Apache is a threat to bees. It is not recommended to use it on potato fields, near which there are apiaries. A distance of 10 km is considered safe for bees. For pets, Apaches are a moderate danger, so they should not be near the field during spraying.

Reviews

Andrey, Volgograd

I sell my potatoes in the market, so I plant at least 2 hectares of fields with them. After I began to use the Japanese remedy, there was more free time and the yields became higher. I carry out the processing on young bushes before flowering, so that the beetle does not have time to breed.

Ekaterina, Saratov

Bought a small house with a garden in the village. In the first year, so that the garden would not be overgrown with grass, it was planted with potatoes. I didn’t manage to eat my potatoes, the beetle destroyed it. In the second year, they decided not to risk it; in June, all the bushes were sprayed with Apache preparation. There were enough potatoes for the whole winter.

Conclusion

By treating a potato field with Apache insecticide, you will save your crop from death. The pest does not form addiction to this remedy, so it can be used again the next season. Apache's effectiveness does not decrease with repeated use.