Imidacloprid / Merit

Imidacloprid / Merit provide the industry’s longest-lasting insect control at exceptionally low use rates. These products give outstanding residual control of numerous ornamental pests – it interferes with nerve impulses and disrupts insect behavior. Pests stop feeding, stop reproducing and eventually die.

The No. 1 insecticide in the turf and ornamental market

• Broad-spectrum systemic action
• Outstanding preventive and curative control
• Long residual activity
• Usage rates up to 96% lower than many registered soil insecticides

Pests controlled

Turf pests:
Billbug larvae; European crane flies; hairy chinch bugs; mole crickets; white grubs, including black turfgrass ataenius beetles, European chafers, Japanese beetles, May and June beetles, Northern masked chafers, Oriental beetles, Southern masked chafers

Ornamental pests: 
Adelgids, aphids, Asian long-horned beetles, borers, elm leaf beetles, emerald ash borers, hemlock woolly adelgids, Japanese and other leaf-feeding beetles, lace bugs, leafhoppers, leafminers, mealybugs, pine tip moths, royal palm bugs, sawfly larvae, scale insects, thrips (suppression), vine weevils, whiteflies

Please see the product label for a full list of pests.