At Ortho, protecting your home is essential. But we believe it's important to respect nature's habitat, too. We're in pursuit of a greener world that benefits all living things, and we make it our purpose to help you GroMoreGood™ in nature and beyond.

Ortho's Alternative Chemistries - Consumers' Options

Ortho is committed to providing consumers with options in all its outdoor garden control products. Our alternative chemistries differ in several ways from neonics. First, they do not persist in the plant and instead rely on an insect or disease being directly contacted in order to work. Second, because of how the products work their directions for use recommend more targeted application only when problems are observed and only on affected plants. This allows consumers to more closely target their application of pesticides and minimize exposure to beneficial pollinators. Additionally, you can time your applications to when pollinators are least active thereby reducing exposure even further.

Pollinator Promise

In 2016, the Ortho® brand announced its decision to remove neonics from its outdoor products. Today, none of Ortho’s outdoor garden controls are produced with neonics. Through the Bee Responsible education campaign, Ortho went beyond formulation changes to help gardeners protect pollinators while using its products.

What You Can Do to Help?

In an effort to respond to our consumer's needs and provide effective solutions for their garden, Ortho is providing our consumers with choices in outdoor garden products. We have also partnered with pollinator friendly groups, such as the Central Ohio Beekeepers Association, to keep us and consumers educated about the pollinator situation, and created an on-site apiary. We encourage you to plant your own pollinator garden to help provide habitat and nutrition for the pollinators.

You can learn more about how to build a successful pollinator garden here. In addition, you as consumers of outdoor garden controls products, must make every effort to be responsible in your application of control products by reading and following product label directions carefully in order to minimize exposure to beneficial pollinators.