For those who grow potatoes, information about the effective Japanese insecticide - Apache for the Colorado potato beetle - will be useful. The product is produced by the well-known company Sumitomo; it has long occupied a leading position among manufacturers of plant protection products against pests. Apaches have been on our market since 2008.
Composition and release form
Apache insecticide is produced in the form of beige granules. They quickly dissolve in water of any temperature. When working with granules there is no dust, which is important.The product poses a moderate hazard to human health; it has a hazard class of III.
Most of the 500 g/kg granules are clothianidin, a substance belonging to the nicotinoids group.
Tobacco has long been a popular remedy for the Colorado potato beetle. Many vegetable growers treat potato tops during flowering with an odorous infusion from cigarettes.
The advantages of modern nicotinoids include their qualities:
- accumulate in plant tissues;
- accumulate in insect tissues;
- do not accumulate in the tissues of mammals and humans;
- to obtain the result, a minimum amount of active substance is required;
- short period of decomposition in the soil;
- non-volatile.
For spraying small potato plantations, you can purchase Apache in 2.5 g packages. Inside the package there are 5 water-soluble sachets of granules, each weighing 0.5 g. When preparing the working solution, you do not need to pour the granules into the water, just throw in the required number of sachets. Farmers are offered Apache plastic bottles weighing 250 g.
Price
You can purchase a Japanese remedy for the voracious beetle via the Internet; it is also available in retail sales. Small packages weighing 2.5 g each cost around 100 rubles. The price of the drug, packaged in 250 g bottles, is 5,600 rubles.
How to breed Apaches correctly?
Instructions for use in Russian contain a detailed description of the process of preparing the working liquid against beetles. One package of Apache weighing 2.5 g is enough for you to cultivate a potato field of 10 acres.
A bag weighing 0.5 g is enough for 2 acres.To prepare a working liquid for treating potato bushes against beetles, dilute one (0.5 g) sachet of insecticide in a 10-liter bucket of water. Pour the resulting Apache solution into a sprayer and spray the entire field for a short period of time.
There are instructions on how to breed Apaches from the Colorado potato beetle for spraying a field of 10 acres. All five sachets need to be dissolved in 1 liter of water. This volume is enough to prepare 50 liters of liquid poison. Add 200 g of concentrate to each bucket.
Liquid poison can be used to water the soil. For irrigation, a solution of higher concentration is needed. For 10 liters of water, two sachets of 0.5 g of powder are needed.
The soil is watered to remove pests under vegetable and flower crops. The insecticide not only kills the Colorado potato beetle and its larvae, it helps get rid of thrips, whiteflies, aphids, and wireworms.
How does Apache work?
The liquid that gets on the leaves penetrates the plant tissue. The concentration of insecticide that kills beetles remains in the juice and tissue for 30 days. Together with the juice and leaves, the drug enters the intestines of the beetles and kills them.
After contact of pests (imagoes, larvae) with a poisonous liquid or film, their death occurs within half an hour. New shoots and leaves that grow back after treatment will contain a beetle- and larvae-killing dose of clothianidin for a full month after using Apache.
Apache is a new generation of insecticides that has a triple effect on voracious insects:
- contact;
- intestinal;
- systemic.
Rules of application
Apache's effectiveness is affected by weather. In hot weather, when the sun shines brightly, treatment is useless and even harmful to plants.It is useless, because the poisonous liquid will evaporate before it has time to be absorbed into the plant tissue. Harmful for potato bushes because drops of liquid on the leaves lead to sunburn.
Prolonged rains also become an obstacle to high-quality treatment of tops from beetles. The leaves must be dry before starting treatment, otherwise the solution will be less absorbed. At least an hour must pass before the rain, then the required concentration of insecticide in the plant tissues will be achieved.
There is no accumulation of toxic substances in the tubers. A month after processing, the tubers can be eaten. If the potato plantation is properly treated, repeated spraying will not be necessary.
Compatibility
You can combine treatment of potato bushes against Colorado potato beetles with foliar feeding with growth stimulants. It is permissible to mix laundry soap diluted with water into the poison. Soapy liquid improves the adhesion of the product to the leaves.
About harm to health and the environment
It is necessary to prepare the working solution and carry out the treatment in a suit specially designed for this purpose. Hands must be protected with gloves, respiratory organs with a respirator. After completing work, you must take a shower.
Apaches pose a threat to bees. It is not recommended to use it in potato fields near which there are apiaries. A distance of 10 km is considered safe for bees. Apaches pose a moderate risk to domestic animals, so they should not be near the field during spraying.
Reviews
Andrey, Volgograd
I sell my potatoes at the market, so I plant at least 2 hectares of field with them.After I started using the Japanese remedy, I had more free time and the yields became higher. I apply the treatment to young bushes before flowering, so that the beetle does not have time to reproduce.
Ekaterina, Saratov
We bought a small house with a vegetable garden in the village. In the first year, to prevent the garden from becoming overgrown with grass, it was planted with potatoes. I couldn’t eat my potatoes; a beetle destroyed them. The second year we decided not to risk it; in June all the bushes were sprayed with Apache. There were enough potatoes for the whole winter.
Conclusion
By treating your potato field with Apache insecticide, you will save your crop from destruction. The pest does not develop an addiction to this product, so it can be used again the next season. The effectiveness of Apache does not decrease with repeated use.
