On 30/04/2013 20:12, rbel wrote:

Following on from the previous thread concerning pesticides I see that
the agricultural use of three neonicotinoid products - imidacloprid,
thiamethoxam and clothianidin are to be suspended from the 1 December
this year for a period of two years.

Apparently some of the larger retailers of garden products have
already stopped stocking the non-commercial products.


I hope that "Plant Rescue Bug Killer" will be reformulated to replace
the thiamethoxam with one of the other neonicotinoids which aren't
affected by the ban. It's the only product I've found - available to
the amateur - which is effective against red spider mite. Actually, I
wouldn't care if the thiamethoxam was removed and not replaced, as it's
the other active ingedient, abamectin, which deals with RSM.

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Jeff