This organic insecticide and repellent is a Neem-derived product. BioNeem’s active ingredient is azadirachtin, a natural Insect Growth Regulator extracted from the Neem seed. As an IGR, BioNeem disrupts the insect’s delicate hormonal balance, killing them before they molt into their next life stage.
Target pests: aphids, whitefly, gypsy moths, webworm, mealybugs, caterpillars, and more than 30 additional species on ornamentals, flowers, vegetables, fruit, trees, and shrubs.
Ingredients:
Azadirachtin .09%
Inert ingredients 99.01%
Dilution rate: 2-3 oz per gallon, depending on application.
Application rates: depends on what you need to treat, but generally 8 oz. covers 3,000 sq. ft.
See Instructions Tab.
Foliar Application:
(Bedding and potted plants, trees and shrubs) To control aphids, beet armyworm, caterpillars, fruit flies, leafhoppers, leafminers, loopers, mealybugs, Mexican bean beetles, thrips, whitefly, bagworm, elm leaf beetles, grasshoppers, gypsy moths, hornworm, pine sawflies, spruce budworm, psyllids, tent caterpillars, weevils and webworm, dilute 3 oz per gallon of water; mix thoroughly, and apply as a fine spray to leaf surfaces to the point of run off. Coat all sides of leaves.
Lawn Application:
To control pill bugs, chinch bugs, crane flies, fall armyworm, Hyperodes weevils, mole crickets, sod webworm and white grubs, dilute 2 oz per gallon of water and apply at a rate of 5 gallons per 2000 sq ft. Apply at least 3 times every 7-10 days to ensure control of surface or subsurface pests. Do not use on newly seeded lawns.
Yard and Landscape:
To control aphids, bagworm, box elder bugs, caterpillars, gypsy moth larvae, mature tent beetles, lace bugs, hoppers, psyllids, sawfly larvae, webworm, and wooly aphids, dilute 3 oz per gallon of water; mix thoroughly, and apply as a spray. Apply 2-3 times every 7-10 days. Heavy infestations may require applications every 3-4 days until control is achieved.
House Plant Application:
To kill or repel aphids, beet armyworm, caterpillars, fruit flies, fungus gnats, leafhoppers, leafminers, mealybugs, Mexican bean beetles, thrips and whitefly, mix 2 teaspoons per pint of water and spray all leaf surfaces, including undersides and those at the soil surface until completely wet.
Vegetable and Fruit Crop Application:
To kill or repel aphids, armyworm, bean leaf beetles, bollworm, budworm, codling moths, Colorado potato beetles, corn earworm, cucumber beetles, cutworm, diamondback moths, European corn borers, grape leaf skeletonizers, hornworm, imported cabbage worm, leafminers, leafrollers, loopers, melon worm, Mexican bean beetles, pickleworm, pinworm, squash bugs, tent caterpillars, thrips, tomato fruitworm, twig girdlers, vine borers, weevils and whitefly, dilute 3 oz per gallon of water; mix thoroughly, and apply as a spray. Apply 2-3 times every 7-10 days. Heavy infestations may require applications every 3-4 days until control is achieved.
To repel Japanese beetles, dilute 3 oz per gallon of water; mix thoroughly, and apply as a spray; may be repeated as often as every 3 days or after a significant rainfall.