Merit provides the industrys longest-lasting grub control at exceptionally low use rates. This product gives outstanding residual control of numerous ornamental pests it interferes with nerve impulses and disrupts insect behavior. Pests stop feeding, stop reproducing and eventually die.

Pests Controlled

Ornamental pests:

Adelgids, aphids, Asian long-horned beetles, borers, elm leaf beetles, emerald ash borers, hemlock woolly adelgids, Japanese and other leaf-feeding beetles, lace bugs, leafhoppers, leafminers, mealybugs, pine tip moths, royal palm bugs, sawfly larvae, scale insects, thrips (suppression), vine weevils, whiteflies

Turf pests:

Billbug larvae; European crane flies; hairy chinch bugs; mole crickets; white grubs, including black turfgrass ataenius beetles, European chafers, Japanese beetles, May and June beetles, Northern masked chafers, Oriental beetles, Southern masked chafers

Key Benefits

The No. 1 insecticide in the turf and ornamental market

• Broad-spectrum systemic action
• Outstanding preventive and curative control
• Long residual activity
• Usage rates up to 96% lower than many registered soil insecticides