This sprayer is essentially a tank that can hold water, chemical and up to 130 psi of air. Ideally suited for reaching heights of 40+ feet, it has no moving parts other than the valve you hold for spraying and the adjustable brass “bullet” nozzle. This vunique sprayer is simple yet very good, easy to use and one of our “favs” for applying insecticides to your homes exterior and landscape (its too powerful for use inside). This amount will let you treat 2-4 trees.įor highest reach, get one of our NO PUMP SPRAYERS. Add 2.5 oz of Maxxthor to the sprayer and fill to the 5 gallon line. Our sprayer will use the power of your garden hose to reach as high as your water pressure can reach. If you need to reach up 20 feet or more, a good HOSE END SPRAYER will usually do the job. Use a good PUMP SPRAYER to make the application ours can reach up about 15 feet. Treat as needed or once every 30-60 days to keep them away when active. 5 oz of Maxxthor per gallon of water and spray to the point of runoff. These are usually the smaller sized limbs toward the outside edges of the tree and not so much the sections close to the middle trunk of the tree.Īdd. This product will provide a long-lasting residual and keep both twig girdlers and twig pruners off treated surfaces for 4-8 weeks.īe sure to spray the limbs they’ll target when treating. The second option is to spray a good true insecticide concentrate known as MAXXTHOR EC. Retreat as needed once a month is usually required when girdlers are active. Treatments will last 3-6 weeks and usually, two treatments will be needed with girdlers are active in either the fall or spring.Īdd 3 oz per gallon of water and spray to the point of runoff on trees you want to protect. This spray won’t kill anything and is perfectly safe to spray on any tree, shrub or other targeted plants. It’s made from plant oils and insects will stay off treated surfaces. The organic option is to apply some NBS INSECT REPELLENT to the limbs they want to girdle. There are two products that work well for this one is a natural insect repellent and the other is a true pesticide that will last a lot longer and provide the best protection. Treatments usually only need to be done once in the spring just before the activity starts and then again in late summer before they start their fall egg laying. To stop the damage, you’ll need to spray the targeted trees. Twig girdlers can detect these scents from great distances and will come from far and wide to take advantage of a good tree to girdle. This happens because females leave a scent that other girdlers and pruners can smell. Trees which experience activity will tend to have more and more activity. The pupae typically hatch out adults which want to continue the cycle. The larvae of both species will feed for a month or two and then go into a stage known as the pupae. Notice the limb targeted is less than 1 inch wide. Here is what twig girdler damage looks like. This ensures the twig will die and be good food. They need the wood to be dead which is why the female cuts or girdles the limbs. When the egg hatches, the larvae will feed on the dead branch (cellulose). Many times the branch will fall off the tree as it dies and rots. So after she cuts (or girdles) the branch, females will lay eggs in the fresh pulp down toward the center of the branch. Both are cutting branches so they can lay eggs because their young eats wood when they hatch. Twig pruners are more active in the spring and twig girdlers are mostly active in the fall. They typically target trees like basswood, Bradford pear, cherry, dogwoods, elm, hickory, honey locust, hackberry, oak, pecan, persimmon, poplar, redbud, wisteria and various other hardwood or fruit trees. These are either twig girdlers or twig pruners. It’s like they’re just gnawing on the limbs and branches. Sometimes the branch is cut off and then I find them doing this to another branch! Why are they cutting down my tree? I don’t see them eating any of the leaves or the bark. They seem to cut around the branches making a cut which goes deeper and deeper.
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