This is true; however, "Hi Yield Bug Blaster II" does fire ants which is the #1 issue I'm having, followed by tic's. Near as I can figure it from reading all the instructions on my spreader (
http://www.agri-fab.com/Portals/0/Manuals/45-04632.pdf ) and Hi Yield bug Blaster II (
http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/msds/33326 Bug Blaster Approved 10-01-10.pdf ) seem's to be a #5 setting (Max flow, tractor not to exceed 6MPH). I just didn't know if I should apply the granules first, then mow, or if I can mow with the spreader right behind the machine so I'm doing both operations at the same time, or if I should mow first, and then cover it with the Bug Blaster?
I'm sorry for such nOOb questions- but I've never owned a lawn before, and I'm 56 years old. House ownership is new for both the wife and I. ***laughs*** Had I been 30 years younger I'm sure my ignorance and arrogance would have prevented these questions.
A health lawn must have bugs in there.
The more bugs the healthier the lawn.
If you have destructive bugs like fire ants then use a selective insectacide, in a selective area.
About 90% of the bugs in a lawn are beneficial kill them and you have to do their work yourself, more chemicals, more sprays more dusts mare grass you can not walk on, dig, mow .
It is hard for a lot of people who have been living in apartments to come to terms with, but it is people that are the invasive destructive species , not what is in your yard .
You are aiming at a yard which requires the minimum of human intervention or you are setting yourself up for a second full time job.
Bad bugs are food for good bugs, bad bugs are food for spiders , bad bugs are food for birds.
A garden rich with birds is a paradise.
If you want a carpet like lawn, then lay astro turf
Back when I was young, we had plagues of cockroaches and worse the deadly Syndney funnel web spider.
Down here we called it the North shore funnel web ( north shore was the rich area ).
The councils in the north shore areas banned keeping chooks ( cause rooster crow & farmed eggs were healthier- right )
Chooks eat the cockroaches that the small animals we wiped out with domestic cats & dogs so without them cockroach number grew.
Funnel webs also ate cockroaches and were themselves eaten by the now extinct small marsupials and ,,,,, chooks.
Around 80 , mainly children of the wealthy people died from funnel web spider bites.
A problem we did not have in the cheaper localities where we had chooks, spiders frogs snakes & large lizards.
I sit here writing this with a huntsman spider the size of a bread plate almost directly above my head which is why there are no cockroaches, slatters or silverfish in this building.
The corners of the windows all have some spider webs on them from the black house spider, which is why there are no flies or mosquitoes inside the house
There is a frog pond near every outside tap and a part of that is habitat for black snakes , goannas, blue tounge lizards & skinks.
They clean up water breeding insects, brown snakes, rats, mice, slugs & snails .
Then only pest control I have to do is occasionally eradicate bull ants ( 8 different varieties ) nests that get built within 100 yards of the building and that only needs to be done 1 day 3 times a year when the ants go to form a new colony.
And fruit fly control as fruit fly is introduced and has no natural preditors.
