Water Mixture for Triazicide Concentrate

Triazicide controls ants in your lawn and gardens.

Triazicide controls ants in your lawn and gardens.

Spring plant growth creates tasty buffet of young vegetation for insects. Triazicide concentrate treats over 180 types of insects. Whether on your lawn, trees, shrubs, flowers, or vegetables, this broad-spectrum insecticide kills pests on contact. The water-to-concentrate ratio and spraying directions vary slightly for one type of flora to the next. The application is repeated every eight weeks to control insects that munch on your plants and attack your feet in the lawn.

Safety First

Protect yourself from insecticides that may burn your sensitive skin by wearing appropriate personal protective gear. Put on long pants, a long-sleeved shirt, safety glasses and closed-toe shoes so that the chemical does not splash on your skin when you are mixing it or while you are spraying. Do not spray taller items while standing underneath them, but move backward and spray upward at an angle to prevent insecticide from dripping on you. Do not allow pets or children into a treated area until it is completely dry.

Vegetables/Fruit and Nut Trees

Mix 1 tablespoon of Triazicide concentrate into a gallon of water in a sprayer to control insects in a vegetable garden or on fruit and nut trees. One gallon treats an area of 300 square feet. Measure your garden or orchard to determine how many gallons you will need to apply to cover the entire garden, wetting all sides of the leaves and stems.

Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Flowers

Most pests on ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers are controlled with a mixture of 1/2 tablespoon of Triazicide concentrate per gallon of water. Tougher insects include California redscale, clover mites, mealybugs, spider mites, whiteflies and pineneedle scale. These pesky bugs require 1 tablespoon per 1 gallon of water to control them. If you are not certain what types of pests you have, the higher concentration will not harm your ornamentals. On these plants, it is best to start controlling the pest population before the plants are infested.

Lawn Treatment

Treat your entire lawn to rid it of insects with 1 tablespoon of Triazicide per each gallon of water. One gallon of the mixture will cover 125 square feet. After you spray the entire lawn, irrigate the lawn to add an additional 1/4 to 1/2 inch of water. This helps the insecticide drain down to the ground level and roots for proper insect control. The product provides better protection if you mow your lawn to its normal height before the application.

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