Vofatox: instructions for use and insecticide composition, dosage and analogues

The globe is overpopulated with all kinds of insects. Most of them bring harm to humanity, positioning themselves as pests and parasites. The chemical industry is always ready to come to the aid of people, producing all kinds of insecticides and extermination agents. Of the many pesticides produced, the most effective drug stands out - Votafox, instructions for use of which are included with the product. The information for use is quite simple and accessible to every consumer.

Consumption rate and application

According to the instructions, 10 ml of the drug must be dissolved in 3 liters of water. You can soak the roots of seedlings in the solution before planting for 1 hour, then dilute this solution in 10 liters and water the trees during the growing season, including before flowering and after harvesting the fruits. The treatment is carried out against mole crickets, beetles and wireworms.

For cabbage and tomatoes, prepare a Wofatox solution at a concentration of 10 ml per 3 liters and soak the seedlings in it 1 hour before planting. Then dilute the liquid in a bucket of water and water the beds. For potatoes, prepare a solution at a concentration of 10 ml per 5-10 liters and apply it to planting holes and rows by spraying. The volume is consumed per 1 hundred square meters. Strawberries, raspberries and fruit trees are watered at the root with a solution (10 ml per 5 l), this volume is consumed per 0.2 acres.

What to eat in the garden

The mole cricket is a predator that eats worms and other insects. For example, when mole crickets are kept in captivity (yes, this also happens), they do not eat tubers and berries well, but you won’t be able to pull them away by the ears from chopped meat and crustacean fish food.

Your seedlings simply interfere with their underground passage. The insect gnaws through the delicate roots with its powerful mouthparts and moves on.

The roots of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, cabbage, peppers, and berry bushes are damaged. Tubers of carrots, beets, and potatoes are disfigured by tunnels. It conducts its destructive activity from May to August. It is worth noting that the mole cricket cannot tolerate odorous plants - garlic, parsley, calendula, marigolds, and alder and avoids them.

Safety precautions when working with insecticide

The insecticide "Vofatox" belongs to agricultural products with a hazard class of 3 for humans and a hazard class of 1 for bees. This means that it cannot be used on flowering plants and during the mass flight of bees.

To work with the drug, safety measures are provided: before starting to dilute the solution and until the end of application, you must work in protective clothing, rubber gloves, plastic goggles and a respirator or mask. All exposed areas of the body must be completely covered. After finishing applying Wofatox, you need to wash your hands and face with soap, and rinse areas of the body that were accidentally exposed to the solution. If liquid gets into your eyes, rinse them with clean water for 15 minutes. If liquid gets into the stomach, you need to drink 1 liter of water, 6-7 tablets of activated carbon and induce vomiting after 15 minutes. If the condition worsens, consult a doctor.

Prevention

Prevention of pest occurrence

Preventive measures are always the most reliable way to save the crop. Therefore, following simple prevention recommendations will make life easier for farmers in many ways:

Reducing the use or completely refusing to fertilize the site with manure. It will become a real bait for mole crickets, so after fertilizing in this way, many end up with much bigger problems.
Anti-mole cricket plants planted between the beds can repel the pest. These are marigolds, cilantro, garlic or calendula.
Treatment of plants before planting in the ground. You can treat it with both special store-bought products and solutions prepared according to home recipes.
Planting seedlings with a protective shell. Only plants with straight and unbranched roots are suitable for this method. Such seedlings can be planted in the soil in plastic cups or cut-off bottles. The pest will not be able to get to the roots and harm the plant.

To choose the best remedy against mole crickets on your site, you will have to experiment a lot. Only in this case can you achieve a good result and save your harvest.

Storage conditions and rules

"Wofatox" can be stored in a dark, dry warehouse for 3 years. Packages with insecticide must be intact and tightly closed. Only pesticides and fertilizers can be stored next to them; animal feed, food and medical supplies should not be kept near them. After the expiration date, the drug should be thrown away and replaced with a new one. Store the insecticide solution for 1 day, then also dispose of the remains, since the solution significantly loses its properties during prolonged storage.

Secrets of deadly granules

It’s not enough to prepare an effective poison; you also need to make the pest want to eat it. Medvetox granules contain 5% diazinon, which is fatal to mole crickets and ants, and the drug also contains flavoring and aromatic additives that the sensitive nose of insects can recognize from afar. For humans, the aroma of the product is somewhat reminiscent of the smell of dry cat food, but apparently, this is exactly how insects imagine the smell of the delicacy. Having approached the tasty lump, the mole crickets savor it and eat it all without a trace. Very soon the drug begins to act, and the voracious parasites die.

In Russia, Medvetox is produced by CJSC TPK Technoexport. The active ingredient was diazinon, originally developed to combat cockroaches. The drug is intestinal and harms the body only when eaten, so the remaining 95% consists of natural components that serve as food for insects.

Analogues of the product

To destroy mole crickets in the garden and in the garden, you can use the following products: “Rembek”, “Boverin”, “Antimedvedka”, “Medvetox”, “Medvetsid”, for other harmful insects - “Antikhrushch”, “Metaphos”. They contain different active ingredients, have different dosages, consumption and method of application.

“Vofatox” is an insecticide in the form of liquid and small granules, which is used in private households against mole crickets and some other malicious pests. The drug is convenient to use, easily dissolves, and is easy to use. A small volume is convenient for vegetable growers and gardeners; there is no need to buy a large package of the product at once; for home garden beds, several packages per season are enough. The product is not toxic to plants, is not absorbed by them, and is completely destroyed in the soil in 1.5 months, that is, it does not get into the fruits and change, the products remain clean.

Cockroach extermination service

Why is it more convenient to order pest control rather than carry it out yourself? Professionals will perform the treatment with potent agents using special equipment and in a short time. The owner will only have to ventilate the apartment, do wet cleaning, and collect parasites with a vacuum cleaner. Contacting specialists is convenient:

All premises are treated;
when insects appear again, free disinfestation is carried out;
A quality guarantee is provided for the work performed.

The cockroach extermination service offers to pre-prepare the premises to provide pest control services. It is necessary to remove food, cover equipment with cloth or cellophane, remove animals, remove unnecessary items from the room. Why are professional actions more beneficial when exterminating pests? Factors that are not always taken into account by customers play an important role:

safety precautions;
experience in exterminating insects;
high execution speed;
safety of drugs on pets and people;
information on pest prevention.

How do disinfectants poison cockroaches?

When professionally treating premises, cockroaches are baited with special preparations. The choice of substance depends on the disinfection method. Effective means of destruction are:

for cold fog - Xulat, Tetrix, Del-zone;
for hot spraying – Fendona 1.5 SC, Sinuzan 48% e.e., K-Otrivin VG 250;
for freezing insects - nitric oxide or freonite.

When sanitizing apartments, medical institutions, and industrial premises, disinfectants poison cockroaches with active chemicals that have a wide range of effects on insects. Effective products for professional pest control:

Solfak;
Chlorpimark;
Fufanol Super;
Cypertrin;
Sychlor;
Sinuzan;
Confidant;
Lambda zone;
Averfos

Medvetox Green Belt - review

Good afternoon gardeners and gardeners!!!

If you, like us, are tired of bears, then read the review and quickly go to the store for this miracle remedy)))

My mother lives in a private house and we have our own garden. We love berries, fruits and vegetables from our garden, but the harvest began to quickly die. Last year we had minor losses, but this year my mother grabbed her head. We are now visiting my mother and when I entered the garden, I saw an almost empty row of cucumbers.

All that's left of the cucumbers. Mom said that the bear ate it all. The mole cricket loves everything: bulbous flowers, berries, parsley, cabbage, beets, cucumbers, radishes, potatoes, carrots, onions, in general, everything that grows on the beds in the garden.

Burrows in strawberries

Strawberries Eaten radishes Young beets Burrows near flowers

At first we began to fight on our own. After reading on the Internet that holes can be filled with water, we began to act. But unfortunately everything is in vain. This is effective if the holes are fresh, but if she dug this hole at night and in the morning she is already in another place on the ridge, then it is useless. While they were pouring water, the passages collapsed, and you can see the path of the mole cricket.

Dug passages from beet to beet

I decided to urgently buy some kind of product and save the harvest. Moreover, mole crickets lay a lot of eggs, and the fight must be waged constantly, otherwise the new generation will begin to grow and also sweep away everything in its path.

The price on the local market is 60 rubles.

Weight - 100 grams.

Shelf life: 2 years.

Having bought this product, I happily ran home to test it on bears.

Medvetox Medvetox All important information is on the back of the package. Instructions Important information

The poison is presented in the form of pink granules.

Medvetox granules The package says honey attractant. The good news is that the poison placed in the ridges is effective for 3 weeks. After this period has expired, the procedure must be repeated.

Important!!! Before working with poison, read the instructions!!! Be sure to follow protective measures!!! Work only with gloves, keep away from children and animals!!! Therefore, as soon as my baby fell asleep, I armed myself with gloves, a dustpan, a watering can, and poison and went to urgently act. The poison is already ready for use, and there is no need to mix it with vegetable oil, as some believe

The poison is already ready for use, and there is no need to mix it with vegetable oil, as some people believe.

How to bury poison correctly: make a small trench 3-4 cm deep in the garden bed and place granules there, then bury it and water it with water. The mole cricket loves moisture and warmth. As the manufacturer promises, the granules do not dissolve under the influence of water and retain their effect.

Digging a small trench Poison is laid Poison on the ridge with onions

The next day in the morning I ran to the garden to see the result, but to my regret, there was no result. I was already upset, but continued to believe in this miracle remedy, and as it turned out, it was not in vain. I went to check the beds after lunch and lo and behold, my beauty was lying in a bed with carrots.

The corpse of a mole cricket on a ridge with carrots The corpse of a mole cricket As they wrote on the Internet, the mole cricket, having tasted the poison, immediately crawls out, where it dies from lack of breathing. While we were visiting my mother, I didn’t see any more bears, but when we left, my mother called me and said that two more bears crawled out right before her eyes, barely alive, where my mother finished them off. (While I was writing the review, my mother called again and said that two more mole crickets had crawled out) In total, there are already 5 dead mole crickets in a week.

Important!!! Remove the mole cricket from the ridge as quickly as possible, otherwise cats or birds may eat it and also become poisoned. I hope that at least somehow we saved the harvest a little and there will be significantly fewer mole crickets

I hope that at least somehow we saved the harvest a little and there will be significantly fewer mole crickets.

A week later we came to visit my mother again and again we came across a mole cricket. She was still alive, but she no longer had the strength. She moved her paws, but could not get up.

Another bear corpse

Since the package says against mole crickets and ants, I tried this poison against garden ants, but it had no effect on the ants, so I’m taking off one star. You can't see the ants in the photo, but they are there))) This photo is after I left the poison for the ants, but they remained as they were.

Ant holes

I recommend Medvetox as a very good remedy for mole crickets, but not for ants.

I was glad to help with my experience. Have a good harvest!!!!

How to get rid of a mole cricket?

The method of using the insecticide is very simple. In the area where mole crickets live, dig furrows about 3 cm deep. It is advisable to place them along the perimeter of the beds to block the path of insects. Lightly moisten the granules with vegetable oil and bury them in the ground. A 30 g bag should be enough for 10 m2, distribute the contents evenly along the furrows. Water the soil with the applied preparation generously, and very soon the pests will begin to flock to the feast.

Advice

If you need to treat a small area, it is better to purchase a small package. You use it all at once, and there is no need to store an open package.

The lumps do not get wet and do not dissolve in the soil. If insects do not immediately notice the tasty bait, the poison remains effective for 3 weeks, and then decomposes into components that are safe for nature. The drug does not harm the environment; beneficial microorganisms in the soil and earthworms do not suffer from its effects.

The very next morning you will see the corpses of creepy insects. Collect them and burn them so that the poisonous prey is not pecked by birds or eaten by animals. The “epidemic” will last about a week, then it will subside, but don’t calm down. The instructions recommend repeating the treatment in a month, when a new generation of mole crickets hatches from the larvae. Calculate the work so that the last application of the drug is no later than 60 days before harvest.

How to use Medvetox and how safe is it for the soil?

It is absolutely harmless to soil microflora and earthworms. When used for its intended purpose, it will not harm humans.

Now about how to use Medvetox:

Make grooves around the beds or between them, the depth of which should be 3-4 cm.
Pour Medvetox into each of them. The manufacturer recommends first flavoring the substance with a small amount of vegetable oil.
Cover the holes with bait with dug up soil.
Water all furrows generously with water.

The effect of the substance lasts for 3 weeks, and even if there are heavy rainfalls during this time, the granules will not dissolve. As a rule, a 30-gram bag is enough for an average of 13 meters of furrow.

The rules for using Medvetox warn against using the product in the presence of children and animals, especially dogs. It can also be noted that Medvetox meets all safety requirements and has been approved by the Russian Ministry of Health, the State Chemical Commission and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.

To destroy the mole cricket, it is recommended to treat the soil twice. Thus, it turns out that it takes almost 2 months to wait for the effect of this substance. By the way, after 3-4 weeks, the active ingredient of the drug decomposes into harmless compounds.

Advantages of the drug

Wide range of protection for agricultural crops, fruit trees and shrubs: potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, sunflowers, raspberries, strawberries, plums, pears, apple trees.
Wofatox poison is an effective remedy for cockroaches and roaches.
The composition of the drug Vofatox is bifenthrin and imidacloprid; these substances lead to the rapid death of pests, affecting their nervous system.
The drug exhibits the properties of an insecticide and acaricide.
Wide range of applications: can be used for soaking the roots of trees and seedlings before planting; also used for watering during the growing season. It has good properties in killing cockroaches.