Episode: Seven
Air Date: 11th of October 2008
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane
Story Title: Mitre 10 – Controlling Garden Pests

Looking for a way to control garden pests without using dangerous chemicals? Trevor heads down to his local Mitre 10 store to get some advice on which products are the best to use to get rid of pests such as aphids and caterpillars.

Featured Products
Yates Success Naturalyte Insect Control

• Controls various caterpillars on fruit, vegetables and ornamentals
• Low toxic formulation.
• Contains spinosad, which is derived from naturally occurring beneficial soil bacteria.
• Spinosad has translaminar movement, which means it moves into the leaf, making the active resistant to rain and sunlight once the spray has dried.
• Spinosad is effective through both contact and stomach action where the pest is killed via spraying directly or where they ingest the plants foliage that has been sprayed.
• Controls a wide range of caterpillars plus pear and cherry slug.
• Controls insects that may have become resistant to other insecticides.
• Non-residual, broken down by sunlight and soil microbes into carbon dioxide and water.
• Winner of 1999 Presidential Green Chemistry Award for its favourable environmental human and health profile.
• Child resistant cap.
• Easy-to-use measure bottle.
• How it Works - Natural insecticide, with efficacy equivalent to synthetic products. It has activity by both contact and ingestion. Affects the nervous system of the insect.

Yates Bayer Confidor Insecticide– Ready to Use

• Controls aphids, mealy bugs, scale, thrips, whitefly and other sucking insects on ornamentals, roses and vegetables.
• Confidor belongs to a new chemical group, so it is excellent to use in a spray programme with other insecticides, as it controls pests resistant to older formulations.
• Systemic action – absorbed through the foliage and moves throughout the plant to control insect pests – works from the inside out.
• Good for spot treatment of pests.
• Low toxic, water based formulation.
• Soft on beneficial insects such as ladybirds.
• Easy to use trigger pack – no mixing required, no mess.

Coopex

• For the control of ants, bedbugs, carpet beetles, clothes moths, cockroaches, fleas, spiders, silverfish, houseflies, mosquitoes, biting flies, hide beetles and seed harvesting ants.
• Coopex is a water dispersible powder, which is mixed with water to prepare a residual insecticide for controlling a wide range of household insect pests, both indoors and outdoors.
• It can be used in commercial buildings such as bakeries, hotels and restaurants, as well as around farm buildings, poultry houses and stables. 
• Effective against a wide range of pests.
• Suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.
• Can be used in a variety of situations.
• Provides 4-6 weeks control.
• Flexible mixing rates depending on degree of infestation.
• Specialist use for hide beetle and in some states, seed harvesting ants.
• AQIS approved (for non-product areas) in export meat works.

Contact

For more information and for your Mitreplan visit www.mitre10.com.au or visit your local Mitre 10 Store.

Yates Australia
1 Gow Street,
Padstow, 2211
NSW Australia
Phone: 1800 224 428
Website: http://www.yates.com.au/