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Perimeter Pest Control in Dublin OH All Season Long

We offer perimeter pest control both as a stand alone service, or, we can combine with our other lawn care packages. We are confident we can provide very competitive pricing for your complete peace of mind! Dublin OH Customers: If you pre-pay for the season, an additional 10% price reduction can be realized.

Schedule Perimenter Pest Control Services in Dublin, OH: (614) 764-2260

We Treat Emerald Ash Borer and other invasive pests

Bio Green Ohio uses a trunk injection system to treat your Ash and Hemlock trees.  A trunk injection is the most effective alternative to spraying or soil applying pesticides for tree insect or pest control.  Bio Green Ohio trunk injection equipment injects Emamectin Benzoate/Imidacloprid directly inside the tree.  The trunk injection systems and formulations are proven to give the best results when protecting trees from borers and insects.

It is Eco-Friendly Lawn Maintenance

Unlike spraying or soil applications, the Bio Green Ohio Arborjet system injects directly into the tree, limiting any impact to your family, the applicator, and the environment around you.

Trunk Injection Facts

• Through trunk injection, small doses of Emamectin Benzoate are carefully measured and injected directly into the tree’s transport tissues, enabling distribution within the tree, but limiting the impact to the environment.
• The best time to treat trees in the upper third of the country is from May through October when trees are most active, and water or nutrients are actively flowing in the tree.  The larval (damaging) stage of EAB does its worst from August through October.
• Injections are made in the bottom 18 inches of the tree, at intervals of around 6 inches apart.  The depth for the injection is between 5/8” and 1 5/8” into the tree.  A 10 inch diameter tree would receive approximately a 1.5 ounce injection for two years of protection.
• Trunk injection formulations can take hours to weeks to move throughout the tree.  Most often trees are protected within a few days.
• Trunk injection is widely considered to be the most effective and consistent method available for preventing EAB from attacking a tree, or killing EAB in an infested tree.  It can stop damage even if the tree is already under attack without harming the surrounding environment.
• Researchers at Ohio State, Michigan State, Purdue, the University of Illinois, and University of Wisconsin have concluded that Arborjet’s trunk-injected systemic insecticides are the most effective treatment option, providing very effective control of EAB for two years, with a single application, even under heavy infestation pressure.  It also provided a higher level of control than other products in side-by-side lawn maintenance studies.
• Bio Green Ohio uses the Arborjet truck injection system which uses an Arborplug, a one way port with a self sealing, surgical septum that prevents product from leaking back out of the injection site.

* Insecticide Options for Protecting Ash Trees from Emerald Ash Borer – 2009 Joint research summary by Ohio State University, Michigan State University, Purdue University, University of Illinois and University of Wisconsin Extension.

Schedule Emeral Ash Borer Services in Dublin, OH: (614) 764-2260

Total Yard Mosquito Control

BioGreen is proud to offer environmentally friendly mosquito control

A novel tool to combat Aedes mosquitoes that transmit Dengue, Chikungunya, Yellow Fever and Zika virus

Dengue, Chikungunya, Yellow Fever and Zika virus are rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral diseases. They are difficult to diagnose and treat, and mosquito control is the only option to stop transmission.

Aedes mosquitoes are difficult to control as they lay their eggs in very small breeding sites and have become resistant to chemical insecticides. The In2Care® Mosquito Trap attracts and kills Aedes females with novel green ingredients that target both mosquito larvae and adults. It is the first to exploit the concept of ‘autodissemination’, resulting in an effective kill of mosquito larvae in breeding sites surrounding the Trap.

In2Care® Mosquito Traps can be placed outdoors at a recommended density of 1/400 m2 (10 Traps per acre) and be maintained every 4 weeks using refill sachets. The product lends itself perfectly for use in vector control programs, particularly in hotspot areas, and by professional pest management companies for Aedes mosquito control services at resorts, hotels and residential sites.

Unique larvicide autodissemination

Aedes aegypti can transmit Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika virus to humans. They are attracted to small man-made breeding sites and have a unique egg-laying behaviour; spreading eggs over several breeding sites to minimise risks for their offspring. The In2Care® Mosquito Trap exploits this behaviour by contaminating the female mosquito body and using her to spread larvicide to multiple breeding sites around the Trap. Via this “autodissemination” the Trap can kill virtually all mosquito larvae in its surroundings before these become biting adults. In this way small cryptic breeding can be effectively controlled.

How do In2Care Mosquito Traps work?

The In2Care® Mosquito Trap is a wonderful tool for lawn maintenance, made of durable plastic and uses water with an odor lure to attract egg-laying Aedes mosquitoes. Once inside, mosquitoes contact the specially treated gauze near the water surface and get contaminated with a larvicide and a fungus. We exploit the fact that Aedes like to divide their eggs over multiple sites; by letting them fly out of the Trap whilst carrying larvicide on their legs. They transport the larvicide and contaminate several breeding sites around the Trap. In this way, we can kill larvae in small and hard to find breeding sources. The mosquito also gets infected with an insect-specific fungus that kills her before she can spread disease.

A multi-impact mosquito control tool:

• Kills all larvae inside the Trap
• Kills larvae in surrounding breeding sites
• Kills exposed mosquitoes
• Stops virus development

An environmentally friendly mosquito control solution

Insecticide resistance has become a major problem in countries infested by Aedesmosquitoes. Area-wide insecticide fogging is still being used but is showing limited efficacy and major impacts on non-target organisms. This necessitates a switch to more sustainable, environmentally friendly vector control. The In2Care® Mosquito Trap is the first Trap that uses a biological control agent to kill mosquitoes. It deploys an US-EPA-approved fungus that kills the mosquito several days after infection and can prevent disease transmission. The Trap larvicide is US-EPAapproved and WHO-recommended for mosquito control and use in drinking water. Both bioactives have short halflives and pose very low risks for non-target organisms.

In2Care® Mosquito Traps deploy a small dose of bioactive mixture in an enclosed point-source environment that is specifically attractive to mosquitoes. Only tiny amounts of larvicide will get spread to other breeding sites (mostly small man-made containers), which is enough to kill mosquito larvae (as less than 10 ppb PPF works well) but not enough to cause risk for non-target organisms like fish or mammals. In this way, our Traps offer an effective mosquito control option without drastic use of chemicals in the entire environment.

Published & Field Validated Results

Field efficacy studies were performed in Trinidad, Cayman Isl and Florida, USA. The Manatee County Mosquito Control District tests for US-EPA registration used local strains of Aedes aegypti and albopictus. Results confirmed that the fungus effectively kills mosquitoes several days after gauze exposure (graph A), which allows them to also disseminate larvicide to other sites before dying. There were massive reductions in adult mosquitoes produced in other sites near the Trap; more than 80% were inhibited from emerging as adult mosquito (graph B). See all results at: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.2987/17-6642R.1

In2Care® Mosquito Traps were initially developed and scientifically validated in our mosquito laboratory using wild-type Aedes colonies (www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/7/1/200). The Trap deploys a very special type of gauze developed by In2Care. It holds the bioactives via electrostatic binding forces, which enables a high dose transfer when mosquitoes make contact and causes high levels of mortality (see http://www.pnas.org/content/112/39/12081.full.pdf).

Field efficacy studies were performed in Trinidad, Cayman Isl and Florida, USA. The Manatee County Mosquito Control District tests for US-EPA registration used local strains of Aedes aegypti and albopictus. Results confirmed that the fungus effectively kills mosquitoes several days after gauze exposure (graph A), which allows them to also disseminate larvicide to other sites before dying. There were massive reductions in adult mosquitoes produced in other sites near the Trap; more than 80% were inhibited from emerging as adult mosquito (graph B). See all results at: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.2987/17-6642R.1

Schedule Mosquito Control Services in Dublin, OH: (614) 764-2260