Fighting Pests with Scorpion

Fighting Pests with Scorpion. I'm Greg Martin with today's Fruit Grower Report. Grape growers in the northwest have a new weapon in their arsenal with the release of Scorpion™ 35SL Insecticide. Eric McEwen is the Brand Manager for Gowan Company, makers of Scorpion™. MCEWEN: Scorpion is a new formulation of dinotefuran. It's a 35SL formulation and the SL means a soluble liquid. So as a soluble liquid it really readily mixes into any solution so we can mix it with liquid fertilizer, any kind of water carrier that's out there with no real problems. It doesn't go into suspension like a flow able formulation would. That means that you can use it with your irrigation systems making application pretty easy. MCEWEN: It's got two real uses. You can do a foliar approach, aerial application or broadcast application with a piece of equipment over the ground or you can go as a soil application and the preferred methods for the soil application really is to do more of a drip type – micro sprinkler type irrigation system. Scorpion is classified as a reduced risk pesticide by the US Environmental Protection Agency and has low impact on beneficial insects and predators. MCEWEN: The chemistry itself is a neonictiniod. It's a 3rd generation. It's really strengths are going to be white flies in the south and up in the Washington area it will be mealy bugs on grapes. It's got good leafhopper activity as well. Gowan Company, based in Yuma, Arizona, USA, is a family-owned company. That's today's Fruit Grower Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.