What does scalicide mean?
Scalicide means A substance that kills scale insects..
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A substance that kills scale insects..
Mr. Hess. The only Japanese cherry trees that come under my jurisdiction are those that are planted in the Botanic Garden, and they do have a little scale, some of them. We sprayed them last fall with arsenic, for the biting or eating insects, and we sprayed them later on with scalicide for the scale, and we got them pretty clean, but I notice there is some little scale on them. There is not a great deal, however. Mr. Welsh. Did you spray them with any oil solution this spring, in the dormant season? Mr. Hess. We sprayed them with scalicide; yes, sir. The basis of scalicide is kerosene, I think.
Phenthoate, Cidal, elsan (S - alpha - ethoxycarbonylbenzyl dimethyl phosphorothiolothionate) is a broad-spectrum scalicide/thripsicide/acaricide.
“Twelve pesticides commonly applied to citrus groves are slated for study in the project’s plots,” reports Tom S. Bellows, UC Riverside assistant entomologist. They include four acaricides (Morestan, Kelthane, Pictran, Vendex), four thripsicides (Cygon, Carzol, Orthene, Sabadilla), and four scalicides (Parathion, Supracide, Lorsban, Sevin).
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Scalicide means A substance that kills scale insects..
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Mr. Hess. The only Japanese cherry trees that come under my jurisdiction are those that are planted in the Botanic Garden, and they do have a little scale, some of them. We sprayed them last fall with arsenic, for the biting or eating insects, and we sprayed them later on with scalicide for the scale, and we got them pretty clean, but I notice there is some little scale on them. There is not a great deal, however. Mr. Welsh. Did you spray them with any oil solution this spring, in the dormant season? Mr. Hess. We sprayed them with scalicide; yes, sir. The basis of scalicide is kerosene, I think.
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