{"id":10230,"date":"2020-03-01T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T05:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppmmagazine.com.au\/?p=10230"},"modified":"2022-11-05T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T01:06:48","slug":"bait-solutions-for-fire-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/pest-control-ants\/baits\/bait-solutions-for-fire-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"BAIT SOLUTIONS FOR FIRE ANTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sumitomo Chemical offers two solutions for treating fire ants, which are currently used by the Government for its national fire ant eradication program.\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"hr-thick\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 45\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>With the increasing involvement of pest managers in supporting the fire ant control program\u00a0in Queensland, <a href=\"https:\/\/sumitomo-chem.com.au\/\">Sumitomo Chemical<\/a> has highlighted\u00a0two options registered and approved for use on fire ants: <a href=\"https:\/\/sumitomo-chem.com.au\/synergy-pro\">Synergy Pro<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sumitomo-chem.com.au\/distance-plus-ant-bait\">Distance Plus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Synergy Pro contains two different food granules and two different active ingredients \u2013 hydramethylnon and pyriproxyfen. \u201cIn most situations, Synergy Pro should be the go-to bait for fire ants,\u201d claimed<strong> Charles McClintock<\/strong>, Sumitomo Chemical business manager. \u201cSynergy Pro<br \/>\nis the faster acting of the two products, with the hydramethylnon delivering a significant drop in activity with days of treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, for sensitive accounts\u00a0or where baiting is being used as a precautionary treatment to take care of any nests that haven\u2019t been identified, Distance Pro is a great option. It only contains the IGR pyriproxyfen, so although it will eliminate the colony, it will take a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSumitomo has been supplying bait to the fire ant program for a number of years, so our products have been proven in the field, meaning pest managers can use these products with confidence,\u201d added Mr McClintock.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sumitomo Chemical offers two solutions for treating fire ants, which are currently used by the Government for its national fire ant eradication program.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":10446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Sumitomo Chemical offers two solutions for treating fire ants, which are currently used by the Government for its national fire ant eradication program.\u00a0","_seopress_robots_index":"","_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[368],"tags":[],"company":[130],"pest":[167],"pesticide":[174],"product-service":[191,207],"class_list":["post-10230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baits","company-sumitomo","pest-ants","pesticide-igrs","product-service-baits","product-service-other","wpbf-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"company","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/company?post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"pest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pest?post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"pesticide","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pesticide?post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"product-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-service?post=10230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}