Yates Confidor Lawn & Garden Imidacloprid Insecticide for the systemic control of insect pests on flowers, shrubs, trees, fruit trees, vegetables and lawns in the home garden.
Main Features:
- Systemic action – absorbed through the foliage and moves throughout the plant to control insect pests – Works from the inside out.
- Economical to use – 200mL makes up to 60L.
- Kills and controls aphids, whitefly, thrips, azalea lace bug, bronze orange bug on ornamentals, mealybug, Fuller’s rose weevil, psyllids, soft scale, hibiscus flower beetle, curl grubs and billbug larvae.
How to Prepare: Shake well before use. Add the required amount of Confidor to water in a sprayer or watering can and mix thoroughly. The prepared spray must be used on the day it is mixed.
How to Use: Confidor
| PLANT | PEST | RATE | HOW TO APPLY |
| Stone fruit | Green peach aphid, black peach aphid | 10 mL per 3 litres of water | Spray foliage thoroughly when insects are first seen or if insects reappear. Spray underneath the leaves to kill pests that may be hiding out of sight. |
| Capsicum, cucurbits, eggplant, potato, tomato | Green peach aphid | For the hibiscus flower beetle, spray buds and flowers as needed. For long-tailed mealybug, apply 3 sprays 2 weeks apart. For psyllids, spray at the first sign, then again a week later. For soft scales, spray in late spring or when small scales are first seen. Apply 3 sprays, 2 weeks apart. | |
| Brassicas | Grey cabbage aphid, turnip aphid | For best results, spray in the morning when there is little or no wind and minimal direct sunlight. | |
| Cucumber, sweet, potato | Silverleaf whitefly | As a guide, 2 litres of spray mixture should be sufficient to thoroughly spray a fruit tree up to 3m high, or 10 large tomato plants. | |
| Eggplant | Melon thrips | ||
| Roses | Aphids | ||
| Ornamentals | Aphids, azalea lace bug, bronze orange bug, harlequin bug, citrus mealybug, greenhouse thrips, Fuller's rose weevil, psyllids, soft scale | 20 mL per 3 litres of water | |
| Hibiscus flower beetle, longtailed mealybug | |||
| Lawns | Curl grubs* and billbug larvae *are also known as African black beetle larvae, Argentinian scarab larvae or pruinose scarab larvae. | 50 mL per 15m2 | Measure lawn area before application. Apply Confidor using a watering can or a hand sprayer and water in thoroughly. Do not mow the treated lawn for three days. |
| Curl grubs and billbugs cause extensive damage to lawns by feeding on grass roots and stems. Affected grass turns yellow, then brown and dies, and can be lifted up like a carpet. | For curl grubs, the optimum application time is peak egg hatch, which occurs between mid-spring and mid-summer. | ||
| For billbug larvae, the optimum application time is at the peak of adult bug activity or when small (4mm) larvae are found in the thatch or surface soil. | |||
| This occurs between late spring and early summer. |