Entrust application in grapevines and stone fruit
The Department of Primary Industries and Regions (PIRSA) is responding to a number of Queensland fruit fly outbreaks in the Riverland and wants to work with commercial growers to assist with the eradication effort.
To support this, PIRSA is supplying Entrust free to commercial growers in outbreak areas to mix with their sulphur sprays for grapevines and stone fruit. PIRSA will continue to treat areas 200 m around a confirmed fruit fly detection.
Check if you’re in a red outbreak area by searching your address on the outbreak map.
About Entrust
Entrust is a contact and ingest organic insecticide.
Entrust is legal to use on grapevines and stone fruit under SA legislation despite the label not listing fruit fly as a target pest.
Applying Entrust
- Apply at the label rate of 20 ml per 100 L for light brown apple moth on grapevines.
- Apply as a tank-mix with sulphur.
- Check any incompatibility issues prior to mixing by performing a jar test (refer to below guidelines for more information).
- To break the life cycle of fruit fly, apply once every 4 weeks, to a maximum of 4 applications per season.
- Commence application after fruit set to avoid impacts on bees and other pollinating insects.
- Re-apply if washed off by rain.
- Refer to product label and SDS for specific application information.
- Record applications in your standard spray diary.
IMPORTANT: Where grapes are being grown for wine grape production, an export harvest interval of "Use no later than E-L 31, berries peasize (not > 7 mm diameter)" applies. Consult your winery or grape purchaser prior to considering applications beyond this growth stage.
Guidelines
Download the guide for self-baiting ( )
More information
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