Use as directed for black vine weevil larvae bronze birch borer cottonwood longhorned borer flatheaded borers including alder and birch borer pine tip moth larvae and other listed pests.
Wood borer treatment in trees.
This is true for two reasons.
Adding mulch around your tree and providing it with supplemental water and fertilizer will help it fight off borers and heal from previous damage.
Chemical control of borers.
Borer beetle treatment options the control of tree borer beetles is really not a control as much as it is a preventive treatment.
Trees which have activity are difficult to save.
Borers are beetle or moth larvae that develop under the bark of trees damaging the wood and eventually killing the tree.
The damage from the tunnels alone can girdle and eventually kill the tree and the holes represent the perfect opening for opportunistic infections.
Unhealthy trees are more susceptible to borers so the best defense is to.
Trees that are riddled with borer holes are past the point of saving.
Borers are the immature stage of certain moths and beetles that dig their way through the living wood of a tree destroying tissues the tree needs to store water and transport sap.
Injection into trees more than 2 inches in diameter that will not produce food within a year after treatment.