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Can GF-120 be used by home gardeners to control Cherry fruit fly? How should it be applied?
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There is a product GF-120 that is listed in our Home Orchard Pest Management Guide. It is a spinosad bait type of product. The PNW Insect Management Handbook suggests applying this product every 7 days at a rate of 1 gal. per acre with a D2 nozzle (without a core). This would be about the same as 7.7t sp per gal. The reentry interval is 4 hours. The pre-harvest interval is zero days.
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