Controlling Tree Pests Just Got Easier

Bayer Environmental Science, a business division of Bayer CropScience, LP, announced that Merit Tree Injection insecticide is available for immediate sale. The product offers arborists and lawn care professionals a new weapon in controlling pest infestations and contains more active ingredient than other injectable products on the market. Applicators can inject a higher concentration of imidacloprid with less volume, allowing for improved efficiency.
 
Injected directly into the tree trunk or root flare, the product is translocated throughout the tree to provide systemic protection, making it the fastest way to get Merit into the tree and to the pest. The new formulation allows professionals to choose their preferred method of delivery – either through traditional application, such as soil drench or soil injection, or through this new method.
 
Merit Tree Injection offers faster curative action and the flexibility to use the product where soil treatment is not feasible. The product’s preventive capabilities also make it a valuable tool in keeping healthy trees pest-free.
 
Merit Tree Injection is designed to work in commonly available trunk injection application equipment and can be purchased in 1-pint bottles. Tree Tech Microinjection Systems will offer the same product as Merit Injectable in pre-filled 3 and 6 milliliter capsules that are essentially ready-to-use.
 
With one application, Merit Tree Injection can provide yearlong control of a variety of insects including invasive pests, such as the Emerald Ash Borer, Asian Longhorned Beetle and Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, as well as aphids, borers, Japanese beetles, lace bugs, psyllids, leaf miners, leaf beetles, leafhoppers and scale insects.