
Lawn Diseases
Mosquitoes in the Yard: Four Days of Water Is All
Penn State: mosquitoes breed in any still water standing more than four days, and residential fogging is the least effective method and is not recommended.

Surface Insecticide Concentrate
★★★★☆ 4/5
nuestra calificación editorial cómo puntuamos4.5/5 según 4,740 compradores en Amazon — su cifra, no la nuestra.
$26 (32 oz) – $41 (1 gal)
Precio habitual · Mixes to a very large treated area; a 32 oz bottle outlasts several seasons of spot use
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Bifentrina de concentración profesional a una fracción del costo por pie cuadrado tratado — para las plagas que viven en la superficie, entre las que no están los gusanos blancos.
Es la misma bifentrina al 7.9% que usa el gremio, vendida sin el sobreprecio del canal minorista, y por pie cuadrado tratado nada de lo que hay aquí se le acerca en precio. Usada para lo que hace bien — chinches, gusanos telarañeros, cogolleros, picudos, hormigas y trabajo perimetral — es una compra sólida, y la concentración implica mezclar cantidades pequeñas en lugar de cargar garrafas listas para usar. Dos límites honestos. Primero, no controlará gusanos blancos: Penn State ubica los piretroides sintéticos para escarabajos adultos que se alimentan de follaje, no para larvas, y la bifentrina se adhiere con fuerza al colchón y a la materia orgánica, de modo que no alcanza a una larva varias pulgadas más abajo. Segundo, no es selectiva y es muy tóxica para abejas y vida acuática, así que corresponde a un área puntual sin malezas en floración y lejos de cualquier desagüe — no esparcida sobre todo el césped como seguro de rutina.
Tipo de producto
Surface Insecticide Concentrate
Ingrediente activo
Bifenthrin 7.9%
Rango de precio
$26 (32 oz) – $41 (1 gal)
Cobertura
Mixes to a very large treated area; a 32 oz bottle outlasts several seasons of spot use
Ideal para
Insectos de superficie confirmados, tratados por rodales y no como pulverización de todo el césped
nuestra calificación editorial
4 out of 5
Etiqueta leída en el PDF del titular del registro
EPA Reg. No. 91234-145
Leímos la etiqueta impresa publicada por la empresa titular del registro. La EPA no aloja un PDF de esta, así que es el mejor texto disponible.
Specimen label read 2026-08-02 on the registrant's own site. Bifenthrin 7.9% confirmed, 'Contains 2/3 pound active ingredient per gallon', cis isomers 97% minimum. EPA Reg. No. 91234-145. Labelled for lawns and landscapes, outside perimeter treatments and interior use — a wide site list, so check the specific site before applying rather than assuming the turf rate. STATE RESTRICTION found on the label and it is narrower than it first looks: a dagger footnote reading 'Not for use in California.' is attached to ONE pest in the outdoor pest list — Japanese Beetles — not to the product as a whole. Recorded as a California state_note. The three articles that card this product (armyworms-and-sod-webworms, chinch-bugs-in-lawns, fire-ants-in-lawns) do not recommend it for Japanese beetles, so no page needed correcting. TICK USE VERIFIED 2026-08-20 from the same specimen label, in the LAWNS AND ORNAMENTALS pest table, which our earlier reading recorded only for turf pests. Ticks are listed at 0.5 to 1.0 fluid ounces per 1,000 square feet, and the label names the disease vectors directly: "Ticks (including ticks that may transmit Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever)". Two instructions matter and are easy to get wrong. First: "Make application to the entire area where contact with ticks may occur. Do not make spot treatments." — so the edge-only application people assume is off-label for this pest, and the treated area is far larger than a spot job. Second, the timing is split by species: deer ticks (Ixodes sp.) are treated in late fall and/or early spring for adults on brush and grass above the soil, and in mid to late spring for larvae and nymphs in soil and leaf litter; American dog ticks from mid spring to early fall. Heavy leaf litter or dense ground cover calls for higher spray volumes, and repeat treatments must not be made more often than once per seven days (New York: two weeks, single repeat — recorded as a state_note). MOSQUITO USE VERIFIED 2026-08-20 from the same specimen label, which carries its own Mosquito Control paragraph our earlier readings did not record: "To control mosquitoes around buildings, landscapes, and lawns, dilute 0.33 to 1.0 fl. oz. of Talak 7.9% F per gallon of water and apply at the rate of one gallon of dilution per 1,000 square feet as a general spray." Mosquitoes also appear in the label pest lists for both landscape and perimeter use. Recorded because our mosquitoes-in-yard article argues correctly that larval control beats adult spraying, and had no adulticide carded at all — an honest page needs the option named with its cost, not omitted.
Where this page and the container disagree, the container wins — the label is the legal authority on rates and restrictions. How to read one yourself.
Contrastado con la presión real de enfermedades, malezas y plagas de cada estado.
⚖️ One use is excluded here: the label's Japanese beetle listing carries a footnote reading not for use in California. Every other pest on its outdoor list — chinch bugs, sod webworms, armyworms, fire ants — is unaffected, so the product is usable here for the jobs we actually recommend it for.
⚖️ The label carries a New York-only block for outdoor use on lawns and landscaped areas. A 100 foot vegetated buffer must be maintained between the application site and waters of the State — required for all waters except those entirely privately owned with no outlet — and the buffer must be established, well maintained vegetation kept free of channels. New York also overrides the general reapplication interval: a single repeat application only, and no sooner than two weeks after the first, where the rest of the label allows repeats no more often than once per seven days.
Common questions
Atticus Talak 7.9% Bifenthrin Concentrate suele costar $26 (32 oz) – $41 (1 gal) y cubre Mixes to a very large treated area; a 32 oz bottle outlasts several seasons of spot use.
Atticus Talak 7.9% Bifenthrin Concentrate actúa sobre Chinch bugs, Southern chinch bugs, Hairy chinch bugs, Sod webworms, Armyworms, Fall armyworms, entre otros.
Bifenthrin 7.9%, registrado con el n.º de registro EPA 91234-145.
No controlará gusanos blancos — los piretroides se fijan al colchón y nunca llegan a la zona radicular
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Lawn Diseases
Penn State: mosquitoes breed in any still water standing more than four days, and residential fogging is the least effective method and is not recommended.

Lawn Diseases
A CDC trial cut tick numbers by half and found no drop in human illness. The landscape work has a mechanism you can see — ticks will not cross hot, dry ground.

Weed Control
One EPA registration can carry eleven brand names. And a third set of digits means the label in your hand may be a narrowed version of the same product.

Lawn Diseases
Japanese beetle traps catch a lot of beetles and attract more than they catch. Three extension services advise against them — and grub control will not help either.

Lawn Diseases
Green to brown in two days means armyworms; closely cropped patches mean sod webworms. Both are caterpillars — which rules out most grub products.

Lawn Diseases
Chinch bugs: two species, two grass families, and a float test that confirms them in five minutes. Plus the documented resistance nobody prints on the bottle.

Lawn Diseases
Treating fire ants in lawns by drenching the mound kills workers and moves the colony. Bait reaches the queen — that difference is why most attempts fail.

Grass Types
St. Augustine grass care: mow high, watch for chinch bugs, and know it cannot be seeded — only sod, plugs or sprigs. Plus the herbicides that damage it.

Fertilizer
Your lawn is yellow and nitrogen is only one of nine causes — feeding the wrong one wastes a season. Diagnose by pattern, blade and timing first.
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