PEST CONTROL CHART 
Use Sprays and Dusts For Healthy Flowers and Vegetables 
Plants 
Description of Injury, 
Insect or Disease 
Insect or 
Disease 
Spray or Dust 
How and When to Apply 
VINES AND 
SHRUBS 
(Continued) 
Rust is a disease that causes leaves or 
stems to be rusty brown or yellowish, 
in streaks or in patches. 
Rust 
Mildew 
Leafspot 
M-R-S Dusting 
Sulphur 
Garden Sulphur 
Kopper Queen 
Spray thoroughly on plant, cover¬ 
ing all parts. Repeat every 10 
days. Nicotine also can be 
addea to control certain insects. 
Mildew shows powdery or felt-like 
patches on leaves and stems cause 
leaves to curl up and drop. 
Dust from shaker carton or hand 
duster over entire foliage, com¬ 
pletely covering all leaves. Re¬ 
peat before rain periods and 
every few days. 
Leafspot is the cause of small spots on 
leaves or masses of spots, usually 
brown. Sometimes centers of spots 
fall out leaving leaf-holes. 
VEGETABLES 
AND BERRIES 
Ahipds are small soft-bodied sucking 
insects 1/10 inch long, clustered to¬ 
gether on stems and leaves. 
Ahpis 
Leafhopper 
Aphis Spray 
Black Leaf 40 
Evergreen 
Garden Volk 
Roterone Garden 
Guard 
Botano Dust 
Spray on the insects, often. Spray 
on the under side of leaves until 
all insects are drenched. 
Spinach 
Celery 
Beets 
Cabbage 
Cauliflower 
Melon 
Pepper 
Tomato 
Potatoes 
Currant 
Gooseberry 
Blackberry 
Raspberry 
The nicotine only is effective 
against these insects. Be sure 
to hit the insect with it. The 
powder can be added according 
to directions to control any 
chewing insects or blight which 
may be present. 
Leafhoppers are wedgeshaped insects 
A — H inch long, winged or wingless; 
rear legs are very long. When dis¬ 
turbed they walk sideways. 
Beetles are hard-shelled insects of 
various colors and sizes which eat 
into or entirely consume leaves and 
flowers. 
Beetle 
Slug 
Caterpillar 
Aphis Spray 
Evergreen 
Naphthalene 
Meta 
Garden Guard 
Caltox 
Spray thoroughly, make sure to 
hit the insects to be controlled; 
repeat sprays every few days. 
Apply a heavy spray gun upon 
insects and entire plant. 
Slugs are soft-bodied, slimy and legless. 
They rasp away upper leaf surfaces 
or eat holes in them. 
Non-poisonous to humans—safe 
on edibles. Broadcast the dust 
over the insects and plant. 
Caterpillars are fuzzy or hairless worm¬ 
like insects eating away at buds, 
flowers and foliage. They may occur 
singly or in colonies rolling leaves 
together or spinning webs. 
Cutworms pierce or cut off leaves or 
main stem of seedlings near the 
ground line. 
Cutworms 
Slugs 
Grasshoppers 
Meta 
Snarol 
Bug-Go 
Bait-M 
Naphthalene 
Spread a thin band of Bait-M on 
the ground around the plant to 
be protected. For larger area 
spread small windrows criss¬ 
cross over like a checkerboard 
with two foot squares, or 
broadcast. 
Slugs are soft-bodied, slimy and legless, 
rasping away at upper leaf surfaces or 
eating out holes. 
Leaves have minute silken threads and 
webs on undersides, in which are tiny 
red spiders. Leaves become speckled, 
brown and drop off. 
Red Spider 
Mite 
Emo-Nik 
Garden Volk 
Evergreen 
Spray on pests and on under leaf 
surfaces; repeat weekly. 
Dust thoroughly from sifter car¬ 
ton or hand duster, getting dust 
into places where red spiders 
are feeding; repeat frequently. 
Rust is a disease that causes leaves or 
stems to be rusty brown or yellowish, 
in streaks or patches. 
Rust 
Mildew 
Leafspot 
Blight 
Kopper Queen 
Dusting Sulphur 
Spray thoroughly on plant, cover¬ 
ing all parts. Repeat every 10 
days. Nicotine also can be 
added to control certain insects. 
Dust from sifter carton or hand 
duster over entire foliage, com¬ 
pletely covering all leaves. Re¬ 
peat before rain periods and 
every few days. 
Powdery or felt-like patches on leaves 
and stems cause leaves to curl and 
drop.—Mildew. 
Leafspot is the cause of small spots on 
leaves or masses of spots, usually 
brown. Sometimes centers of spots 
fall out leaving leaf-holes. 
SHADE TREES 
Ash 
Beech 
Birch 
Box Elder 
Catalpa 
Chestnut 
Elm 
Hickory 
Locust 
Maple 
Oak 
Sycamore 
Numerous soft-bodied sucking insects 
(aphids) 1/10 inch long, clustered to¬ 
gether on twigs and leaves. 
Aphid 
Aphis Spray, Black 
Leaf 40, Evergreen, 
Emo-Nik, Garden 
Volk, Garden Guard, 
Botano Dust 
Spray thoroughly, make sure to 
hit the insects to be controlled; 
repeat sprays every few days. 
Bright red or red bordered insects, 
winged or wingless. Box-Elder plant- 
bugs suck sap from tree shoots and 
leaf stems. 
Box-Elder 
Plant Bugs 
Emo 
Garden Volk 
Emo-Nik 
Spray thoroughly, make sure to 
hit the insects to be controlled; 
repeat sprays every few days. 
Very small scales varying in size from 
nearly visible to A inch long, found 
on leaves, twigs and bark. 
Scale 
Dry Lime-Sulphur 
Emo 
Dormant spray (early in spring). 
Lime Sulfur discolors painted 
surface. 
Dormant spray (early in spring). 
Caterpillars are hairy or hairless worm¬ 
like insects which eat holes in foliage. 
Caterpillar 
Arsenate of Lead 
Spray the trees just before the 
spring leaves attain mature 
growth, repeat when necessary. 
Hard-shelled oval or oblong shaped in¬ 
sects eating holes in leaves or partly 
consuming them. 
Beetles 
EVERGREENS 
Arbor Vitae 
Balsam 
Cedar 
Hemlock 
Larch 
Pine 
Spruce 
Numerous soft-bodied sucking insects 
(aphids) 1/10 inch long, clustered to¬ 
gether on twigs and needles. 
Aphid 
Same as other 
Aphis Control 
Dormant spray (early spring). 
Growth spray (summer). 
Very small scales vary in size and color. 
They are found in masses about 
needles. 
Scale 
Emo 
Nursery Volk 
Dormant spray (early in spring). 
Tiny mites cause minute spider web 
tangles about leaves causing them to 
dry up and the tree to die. 
Red Spider 
Garden Volk 
Emo-Nik 
Evergreen 
Apply forcefully with a good 
power spray. Repeat frequent¬ 
ly in 5 days intervals. 
Worms that eat needles at the base, 
causing needles to drop out; or needles 
become gnawed and killed. 
Caterpillar 
Arsenate of Lead 
Spray the infested area, often. 
CONSULT YOUR LOCAL DEALER OR COUNTY AGENT 
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