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Active Ingredients
Cautions
Disposal Methods
If Partly Filled: Call your local solid waste agency for disposal instructions. Never place unused product down any indoor (including toilet) or outdoor (including sewer) drain.
Product Label
Safety Data Sheets can be found at scottsmsds.com
Ortho® Home Defense® Backyard Mosquito and Bug Killer Ready-To-Spray allows you to protect your lawn and landscape from mosquitoes that may transmit diseases like Zika and West Nile, as well as ticks, fleas, and over 200 other insects. Just hook it up to your hose and spray following label directions.
How to Use
Where Not to Use
1. Treatment to soil or vegetation around structures
2. Application to lawns, turf, and other vegetation
3. Application to building foundations, up to a maximum height of 3 feet.
Where to Use
When to Apply
How Often to Apply
Mosquitoes--Malaria, Northern House, Yellowfever, including those that may transmit the Chikungunya virus, yellow fever, dengue fever, encephalitis, West Nile Virus and Zika Virus)
Adelgids--Eastern Sprucegall
Ants--Argentine, Carpenter, Harvester, Imported Fire, Lasius, Odorous House, Pavement, Pharaoh/Sugar, Pyramid
Aphids--Apple, Black Cherry, Black Pecan, Buckhorn, Greenbug, Pea, Root, Rose, Rosy Apple, Walnut, Yellow Pecan
Beetles--Bean leaf, Billbugs (Bluegrass), Cucumber (Banded, Spotted & Striped), Black Turfgrass Ataenius, Blister, Brown Leaf Notcher, Carpet, Colorado Potato, Corn Rootworm (Mexican, Northern, Southern, & Western), Curculio (Cow Pea & Plum), Elm Leaf, Flea (Black, Dichondra, & Sweetpotato), Ground, Japanese Adult, Ladybeetles, Mexican Bean, Pine Chafer, Pine Shoot, Red Flour, Rose Chafer, Sap, Southern Corn Leaf, Weevils (Annual Bluegrass, Black Vine, Blue Green Citrus Root, Carrot, Cranberry, Diaprepes Root, Little Leaf Notcher, Northern Pine, Orchard, Buckhorn, Greenbug, Pea, Orchid, Pea Leaf, Pecan, Pepper, Pine Shoot, Sweetpotato, Whitefringed
Bees
Borers--American Plum, Common Stalk, European Beetles Bean Leaf, Billbugs (Bluegrass), Com, Hop Vine, Lesser Peachtree, Peach Twig, Cucumber(Banded, Spotted & Striped), Black Peachtree, Southern Com, Southwestern Com, Turfgrass Ataenius, Blister, Brown Leaf Notcher, Squash Vine, Stalk
Mealybugs
Midges
Boxelder Bug
Caterpillars--Alfalfa, Alfalfa Looper, Armyworm (Beet, Fall, Southern, True, & Yellowstriped), Bagworms, Blueberry Spanworm, Budworm, Casebearers (Pecan Leaf & Pecan Nut), Celery Leaftier, Com Earworm (same as Tomato Fruitworm), Cross-Striped Cabbageworm, Cutworms (Black & Western Bean), Filbertworm, Fruitworms (Granberry, Green, & Tomato), Green Cloverworm, Hickory Shuckworm, Imported Cabbageworm, Loopers (Cabbage & Celery), Melonworm, Navel Orangeworm, Orange Tortrix, Painted Lady, Pickleworm, Ringworm, Saltmarsh, Tent, Hornworms (Tobacco & Tomato), Tomato Pinworm, Webworms (Fall, Mimosa, Oak, & Sod), Velvetbean,
Centipedes
Chinch Bugs--False, Hairy, Southern
Cockroaches--American, Asian, Brown Banded, German, Smoky Brown
Crickets
Earwigs
Fleas--Cat, Dog
Fleahoppers
Flies--Apple Maggot, Biting Flies, Cherry Fruit, Cornsilk, European Crane, House, Walnut Husk
Fungus Gnats
Grasshoppers
Hornets
Lace Bugs
Leaffooted Bugs--Squash Bug
Leafhoppers--Aster/California, Com, Eastern Grape, Glassy Winged Sharpshooter, Potato, Southern Garden, Western Grape
Leafminers--Alder, Boxwood, Holly, Oak, Spruce Needle, Tentiform, Vegetable
Leafrollers--Oblique Banded, Red-Banded, Variegated
Millipedes
Mites--Banks Grass, Broad, Carmine, Chigger, Clover, European, Grain, Pacific Spider, Pecan Leaf Scorch, Pecan Scorch, Red Spider, Spider, Spruce, Two-Spotted Spider
Mole Crickets
Moths--Artichoke Plume, Codling, Diamondback, Gypsy, Luceme, Oriental Fruit, Zimmerman Pine
Periodical Cicadas
Pillbugs & Rollie Pollies
Plant Bugs--Tarnished, Lygus Bugs
Phylloxera--Pecan Leaf, Pecan
Psyllids
Sawflies--European Pine, Redheaded Pine, Rose Slug
Scales--Brown Soft, California Red, Euonymus, Pine Needle, San Jose
Scorpions
Sowbugs
Spiders--Black Widow, Brown Recluse, Daddy Long Legs, Hobo, Burrowing Wolf, Pirate Wolf, Thin-legged Wolf
Spittlebugs--Meadow, Pecan
Stinkbugs--Brown Marmorated, Kudzu Springtails
Termites
Thrips
Ticks*--American Dog, Brown Dog, Deer (*including ticks that may transmit Lyme disease)
Treehoppers--Three-cornered Alfalfa Hopper
Wasps
Whiteflies
Wireworms--Corn, Southern Potato
Yellowjackets
People and pets may enter the treated area after the spray has dried.
Do not allow this product to run-off into storm drains, drainage ditches, standing water, and gutters.