New billbug control results

David Zahrte, CGCS (Santa Ana CC, California), has been evaluating products for control of the Phoenician billbug, a pest that, like all billbugs, has been very difficult to control. But there is some good news from Dave's most recent trials.

In September, 2008, Dave treated sections of heavily infested fairways with either Meridian (thiamethoxam) at the high label rate of 17 oz/A, or with Acelepryn (chlorantraniliprole) at the high label rate of 20 oz/A. Large sections of each fairway were…