08-20-2016, 01:58 PM
I've been using the following method with great (as in, hardly ever get bit anymore - maybe once a month) success:
I alternate monthly treatments of Siesta and Provaunt. The twist being, I ball up the Siesta (a little spit applied as needed) and chuck it up into my trees. Most of it falls back to the ground (or my face), but some finds a nook or cranny and stays in the trees. (And besides, the ground is where it was supposed to be applied anyway). The catch being, most of my trees are "short" (banana trees were my biggest source of stings), so employing Marcus Mariota may be a prerequisite for treating Albezias and such.
Perhaps it is actually the bi-monthly squirts of Provaunt that is actually killing the tree-dwellers, who knows. But Siesta definitely is irresistible to them and extremely effective.
I alternate monthly treatments of Siesta and Provaunt. The twist being, I ball up the Siesta (a little spit applied as needed) and chuck it up into my trees. Most of it falls back to the ground (or my face), but some finds a nook or cranny and stays in the trees. (And besides, the ground is where it was supposed to be applied anyway). The catch being, most of my trees are "short" (banana trees were my biggest source of stings), so employing Marcus Mariota may be a prerequisite for treating Albezias and such.
Perhaps it is actually the bi-monthly squirts of Provaunt that is actually killing the tree-dwellers, who knows. But Siesta definitely is irresistible to them and extremely effective.