Oil Sprays

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Chemical Action and Usages: Parafinitic petroleum distillate horticultural oil in emulsified liquid concentrate form. Mix with water per label instructions in accordance with intended use. Insecticide for use as a dormant spray (before buds show green tissue), delayed dormant spray (when leaves of blossomed buds have grown to ½ inch long) or growing season/summer spray on fruit trees, shade trees, shrubs, ornamentals, roses and vegetables. Also registered for use on certain houseplants. Oil sprays control a wide variety of insects and insect eggs including aphids, mealy bugs, mites, scale, lacebugs, leaf miners, psyllids, whiteflies and beetle larvae (but not adult beetles). Kills insects and insect eggs primarily by smothering and suffocating them and not be chemical action. For use as dormant oil, spray trees and shrubs in early spring to control targeted over wintering insect stages and over wintering eggs. For use as a growing season or summer oil, spray plants from June to August (see cautions below).

Cautions/Instructions: Read the label carefully of the brand you have selected. Apply the product according to the instructions on the label. Do no use within 30 days of any sulfur application. Do not use when temperatures are above 90 degrees F. Bleaching and spotting may occur on the open blooms of some flowering plants.

Toxicity: Low toxicity to humans, but can cause skin and eye irritations. Low toxicity to birds, bees or fast moving beneficial insects. Toxic to fish.