How To Treat For Bugs In The Lawn :: Liquid and Granular Options (2023)

Introduction

Spraying for bugs and in the lawn - options include granular and liquid. This is part 2 to another video where I walk you through a strategy on choosing a product youtu.be/pFB2YuPBNMc
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Hey: what's up y'all I'm Allen hain, the lawn care nut thanks for coming back for part two of this video.

Now this video here is going to actually teach you how to apply lawn products to kill sod webworms, but you could use this to apply for any type of insect control, you're doing in your lawn now, if you missed part 1 and part 1 of this video, it's about 15 minutes, long, 16 minutes long I went through and I explained to you what sod web worms are, how to identify them.

What the life cycle was all of that and then also went through treatment options for you, including looking at active ingredients and understanding what you're going to use and what you're gonna apply to take care of the problem.

Now in this video I'm actually gonna take three of those products: a granular, a liquid, applied through a hose end, sprayer and a liquid, applied through a pump sprayer and show you how to put them down now before we go getting too crazy.

The target here is sod web worm and one of the things people are gonna ask is how often should I apply now most of the products that you're gonna see me use here they have a residual of a few weeks, so you really should only have to apply one time, but if you want to reapply the product because there is a life cycle involved here with sod web worm, you could reapply two to three weeks later, but make sure you read the label on the product that you choose, because you may not need to okay, so I'm gonna do three different types of treatments.

Just to show you guys how to execute on all of them.

I'm gonna do a granular I'm gonna do a hose in and I'm gonna do a pump spray or liquid, and each one will be a little bit different.

This section here.

This is my Zoysia.

It's not looking so great, but I got some stuff to do to it right now.

I, just let it get a little overgrown and I gave it a little harder cut than it deserved.

But this here this section here, section 4 and it's 2,500 square feet, so I'm gonna go ahead and treat this with a granular treatment here to show you how that's done now.

I know people don't like reading labels, but you need to because we have different ways.

We could use this product, for example, if you're doing a home perimeter treatment, it's gonna have a little bit of a different application method and amount.

Then, if you're doing pests in the lawn, so we go down here and again.

We found sod web worm, but even here how much to apply apply one two three pounds per thousand for ants, fleas and ticks, but apply two to three pounds per thousand: all other listed pests, so we're doing sod webworm.

It's not an antipyretic, so I'd like to go heavy so we're gonna go max rate of 3 pounds per thousand, so you can see here on a bag.

We can look at our ground, awha Sione's del as spark adores, and the scott deluxe edge guard setting there for the three pounds per thousand as a setting a 4.5 all right.

This is a pie.

Shaped section I, don't necessarily have to worry about, trim passes here.

I'm, just gonna, throw as close to the line as I can.

The reason I don't have to worry about trim passes is because this won't change the color of the lawn, so nothing to worry about there.

I just need to get it good, even pass back.

So I'm gonna head up this way.

First, so I'm gonna throw it right to the edge the domination line over there.

On my way, back I'm gonna watch this side and I'm going to be throwing right to the middle of the wheel tracks from the previous pass and I'm going to do that.

Every single time, I'm gonna, throw back to the wheel tracks of the previous pass walking speed is three and a half miles per hour, which is a double fast walk or you guys know putting some wood into it.

This product does need to be watered in it, says water thoroughly, which I'm gonna go ahead and assume is at least 1/2 inch of irrigation or rainfall.

Now there is a case where some of you may want to apply using a hose and sprayer you're just used to using the ortho down spray and I, encourage you again.

I know I, keep mentioning this, but go back and review video 1 in this little mini series here, because I'll talk to you a lot about using a hose and sprayer and what products you can and can't use via a hose and sprayer.

But I will tell you this came out to be the most expensive of all the applications, and that's one of the things you may want to consider is the cost of the application when you're choosing what to use.

Ok, next I'm gonna go ahead and show you how to do the ortho dial and sprayed treatment.

I got a brand new one, I'm gonna use here and I'm.

Actually gonna put this quick-connect on it.

I'd like to thank Jay Choi, who sent me.

These really saves my life having to screw these in and out of hoses all the time he sent me.

A set of quick connects that I'm now using on my orthos I'll, show you that when we get over to the business end, ok now we need to read on the label and understand how much we need, and so we're gonna go here this.

This can be a little complicated and I'm gonna tell you that this should not be done on large areas.

I'm only gonna do section 1 here, with this and you'll, see why, in a minute which is 1000 square feet, so it says right here: 4, fluid ounces of 7 per gallon of water covers 250 square feet, but what matters here to us is that 4, fluid ounces of concentrate gets evenly spread across 250 square feet.

I have a thousand square feet, so that's 4 times that right because 250 goes into 1,000 4 times.

So if 4 ounces per every 250 and I got 4 of those sections, that means I need 16 ounces of concentrate to cover just 1,000 square feet.

Now, keep in mind this entire bottle is 32 ounces.

So if it takes 16 ounces to cover only 1,000 square feet, that means an entire bottle.

Is only going to cover 2,000 square feet, I know this math can get complicated, but I want you to understand where every dollar that you spend is going knowing the math here will help.

You know the math when you're making other applications to understand if it is actually the smartest product for you be using or if there's something, that's more economical that might fit better in your budget and that's a consideration.

I, don't know if I've mentioned yet.

If some of this might bear down to cost, I have an 8,500 square lawns, so that means I would need more than four full bottles of this concentrate.

If I was going to do my entire lawn with this product and that would get really expensive but again, I just wanted to show you this option in case.

This is something that you're only comfortable with a hose and sprayer.

That's the best option for you, then please just go ahead and go with it.

So I need 16 ounces to go in here, and it does say on here to not add water.

We do that with next products and fertilizers, but those are completely different.

Remember this is an ID.

This is an insecticide.

You got to follow the letter of the law on the label with insecticides and it says just put the concentrate in straight and do not add any water, so we're gonna put 16 ounces in so this is a 32 ounce tank, so we'll put in halfway and we'll be full.

Some of you're gonna ask about the Jaypee.

Mods I'll show you how to do the Jaypee mods on this in an upcoming video.

For now we're going to use it.

Uncircumcised I, don't know if you can see but I'm right there on the 16 ounce mark.

It's not half-full visually, because this is a graduated tank here.

So you want to follow the sight lines on the side.

The first thing to know is that this from the factory is gonna put out two gallons per minute.

Okay, now it might be a little bit off from that, but just know two gallons a minute.

That's the standard that comes out of there when you set your dial on the side.

This is telling you how much concentrate is going to come out of this tank for every gallon, so you can see I have it set here on four.

That means that four ounces of concentrate is going to come out of this tank and be mixed in real-time and put out the end with every gallon of water.

If I have two gallons a minute.

That then means that eight ounces per minute is going to come out of the end of here.

I have sixteen ounces in here, which means I have two minutes to cover my one thousand square foot area.

I know that might seem difficult, but trust me once you get it you're, fine, okay, so I have two minutes now to cover this area.

When we go to do the next products and soil amendments and things like that, I'll show you an easier foolproof way to do it.

But with this we have to be a little bit more precision.

So I have two minutes now to cover this area, which two minutes is plenty of time to cover 1,000 square feet comfortably and I'm gonna put it on the bird mouth.

Setting which is gonna give me the better coverage the best coverage.

Some of you might ask: how do you know it's actually coming out? Well, one is you can kind of hear it? The second is, you can smell it and if you want to know what it smells like, it smells like it now.

Those of you who weren't alive in the 80s before things were safe.

You won't get this, but there used to be a way when you would buy plastic accident figures like he-man.

You would take them out of the package.

They had this really strong plastic smell, I, don't know I, don't know how to describe it except it smells like this.

Toys don't have that smell anymore, because it's all non CFC and all that.

But if you know what old he-man used to smell like or Stretch Armstrong or one of those old toys, that's what this stuff smells like.

So that's how you know it's coming out as you smell it now.

This final application that I'm doing here I'm doing in my backyard- and this is concentrate mixed in a pump, sprayer and I'm choosing this for the backyard, because I actually have a lake behind me or a pond.

It's a drainage pond and I don't want to get anywhere near the pond.

In fact, I want to stay 30 feet away from where the embankment begins to work its way down to the ponds.

So, as you know, around most bodies of water ponds lakes, that kind of thing there's always a bank that goes and then there's a portion where you can see it start to slope towards the water.

You want to stay thirty feet off that beginning point and the application.

That's easiest to control in this case is the pump sprayer as well as it goes down with the lowest volume of water, and then you water it in afterwards with a quarter inch.

The reason I know I needed to water in once again, it's because I read the label all right now.

You're gonna see here with the concentrate that the use rates are much less and in fact, what we need here is one quarter, ounce per 1,000 square feet.

The reason I'm going with the high rate is because right here it says, use the higher applications rate if the grass is greater than one inch high.

So we are definitely over 1 inch, we're at 4 inches, so that means I'm, gonna use the top rate.

The other thing here is the dilution rate.

It doesn't really matter, it says you can actually apply this at 10, gallons per thousand as a dilution rate or as low as 2 gallons, and in fact, if you do it less than that which we are going to, you want to immediately irrigate with one quarter inch of water after you apply now.

If dilution rates confuse you, don't worry, just listen to what I'm going to tell you right now.

If you have a 7.9 percent, concentrated bifenthrin, you're, gonna mix, 1/4 ounce of the concentrate in one gallon water and that one gallon will cover 1,000 square feet.

You're gonna apply that evenly across the 1,000 square foot area and then, when you're done, you're gonna irrigate with a quarter inch of water.

Now I'm going to be doing section five, which is my backyard, there's a lake back there and that's why I'm gonna do this with the pump sprayer and it's actually 2,000 square feet.

So in my case, I'm gonna put in a half ounce of concentrate into the two gallon pump, sprayer and I'm, going to cover that across the 2,000 square foot evenly and then I'm gonna run my irrigation until it gets down 1/4 inch.

So the first thing you're gonna do is fill the sprayer up halfway and some of you're gonna ask can I put in some next products with this, and the answer is yes, you can but put in your concentrated, insect control, first agitate and then put your next product on top I'm gonna be using a little bit of d fetch.

If this added step confuses, you don't worry about it, don't you don't have to do this, so this is a two gallon sprayer and I need a half ounce in this convenient tippet pour I.

Don't have to be able to see it in the Sun, but it's right there marked 1/2 ounce, so you just squeeze it till you get to that level there, and then you pour that in a little bit more water.

In now.

One thing you don't want to: do you never want to dip your hose all the way down in there.

You just don't want to do that.

It's not a good idea to get product on your nozzle and all that, but also there is the chance that it could back up and go into your house.

Water and I know we have backflow preventers and all that, but it's just a best practice.

Never dip the business end of your hose into the chemical-laden mix, a little bit of dethatch I'm, not gonna measure it I'm, just gonna put a little in there.

It's for good measure.

It's only a couple thousand square feet, so there you go guys.

I hope this part 2 of how to kill sod, webworms or really how to kill insects in the lawn video has been helpful to you now.

I've got more pest control, videos coming up because I've got other bugs and other areas to treat and that kind of stuff so make sure you subscribe to the channel hit that like button.

If you like this kind of content, that's all how to using store-bought or Amazon products and, as always, I hope.

This video has been helpful to you.

I'm Alan King, the lawn care dahhh.

Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the lawn.