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["Mark & Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

Alan wrote:

 

"Imidan is not federally restricted for residential use and is not restricted in any way by many states."

 

Hi Alan,

 

Maybe I'm a little confused, but I've read the label and it says not to be used in residential areas.  As I recall the label didn't mention that it was specific to certain states.  Sometimes labels have certain state restrictions-Not for use in California; Not for use on Pome fruits in New York, etc.  I don't remember the label for Imidan listing any states where residential use was permitted.  Are you perhaps looking at an older label, before the change?

 

www.cdms.net is where I viewed (what I thought was) the current label.

 

Mark

KS

----- Original Message -----

From: Alan Haigh

To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 5:03 AM

Subject: [NAFEX] chemical pest control

Sevin is used as a component in the majority of chemical thinning by commercial growers.  It has more than double the staying power of Malathion which as an organophosphate is recieving the same kind of resistance and restriction as Imidan and will probably be taken off market well before Sevin. Imidan is not federally restricted for residential use and is not restricted in any way by many states.  In CT you can purchase it without a license and there are still co.s that ship it by the bag even to restrictive states NQA, last I checked.  If you're worried about mites, add a 1% hort oil like Purespray to the mix which will subdue your mites and scale. 

 

On another note, scale is far more dangerous than mites to your trees health and Surround seems to create the perfect home for this pest so I always serve it with oil dressing when the weather permits in at least one or two rounds of Surround application.

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