Protect Your Trees, Shrubs and Flowers from Japanese Beetles
Raleigh, N.C. - Japanese beetles can feast on the beautiful flowers and foliage in your yard, making leaves look like Swiss cheese.
"Japanese beetles are a double menace to lawns and gardens, as they eat ferociously on plant leaves as adults, then lay eggs that hatch as destructive grubs that feed on lawn roots," says Bayer Advanced Garden Expert Lance Walheim, co-author of Landscaping for Dummies.
These metallic-green insects are approximately 1/2 inch long with bronze-colored wing covers. As adults they feed on more than 300 plant varieties, defoliating them by chewing tissue between the leaf veins, leaving a lace-like skeleton, according to the University of Illinois' Extension Program.
Their damage is extensive. Efforts to control the larval and adult stages are estimated to cost more than $460 million annually, according to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
There are many insecticides on the market that treat Japanese beetles. However, most dusts and sprays often wash off in the rain and need frequent reapplication. In addition, spraying can be a messy proposition, particularly on a windy day, and even more challenging when treating large trees because you risk falling off a ladder or overspraying non-target plants.
But there is a new method in the fight against the Japanese beetles that solves these problems. Rather than wait for the beetles to arrive and destroy your favorite plants, you can protect them in advance with no spraying. Bayer Advanced, one of the largest lawn and garden brands in the United States, has a line of no-spray, drench products that are mixed in a watering can and poured around the base of the rose, shrub or tree to be protected. These drench products work systemically, where the active ingredient is absorbed by the roots, then moving up through the tree, shrub or flower into the leaves. Treated flowers, trees and shrubs will be protected from the inside out from roots to the very tops of the plants. And the protection will not wash off with rain.
Bayer Advanced offers three kinds of drench products: Bayer Advanced™ Tree & Shrub Insect Control Concentrate, Bayer Advanced™ Dual Protection Azalea, Camellia & Rhododendron Insect & Disease Control Ready-To-Spray and Bayer Advanced™ All-In-One Rose & Flower Care Concentrate. Each contains the active ingredient Merit®, which kills Japanese beetles when they try to eat the leaves.
About Bayer Advanced
Bayer Advanced lawn and garden products are created by Bayer Environmental Science, a business unit of Bayer CropScience LP and part of the Bayer AG family, a Fortune Global 500 company that makes such well-known brands as Bayer Aspirin, Aleve® and Alka-® Research Triangle Park, NC, is the business headquarters of the company''s NAFTA Region. Kansas City, MO, is the company''s core technology center. The global headquarters of Bayer CropScience is located in Monheim, Germany.
Bayer Advanced products deliver Better Science. Better Results.™ and carry a money-back guarantee. They are available at major retailers and independent garden shops across the United States. You can learn more by visiting www.bayeradvanced.com or by calling 1-877-BAYERAG.
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