Ben Oldag, a retired ag extension agent, was a long-time Am radio garden question answerer for many years, and he helped listeners like me a lot. He went to work for Cedarcide after being sponsored by them for a long time.I trusted their products both because of Ben's many words about their products, as well as some personal use. However, the dog/animal bug(flea) deterrent sprayed directly on a large, healthy dog caused him to eventually have a negative reaction. With the emulsifier making the product water soluble, any outdoor spray residue will just wash away during rain. The sweet aroma will too soon dissipate even when dry. The cedar may not be the silver bullet that effectively stops the vampire-like stinkers from enjoying your fruit. On the other hand, when strolling around checking your fruit, a handy bottle of blue ammonia glass cleaner will quickly destroy a herd of orange-colored juvenile leaf footed hoppers sitting together on a fruit. You can spray water after a minute if you want to rinse off the stinky blue poison. The mature l.f. hoppers take longer than 10 seconds to kill like the babies...more like a minute.

Despite the outdoor stuff being water soluble, I would expect it to stick around longer based on my own (admittedly limited) experience with it... We used it on my mom's backyard one summer to deal with a flea problem and a bonus effect was that they didn't find a single tick on themselves or their animals for the next two summers (could have been coincidence, but it is normal to pick up at least a tick or two each month in their yard on a normal year). The carpenter ants that were eating their bay window also took a sabbatical for about 2-3 years. Of course, this was years ago... before stink bugs became a problem here so I have no idea how long they would be affected since they are far more mobile than ticks, ants, and fleas and can re-populate an area more quickly.

Thanks for the advice on the glass cleaner, I'm not usually very attentive to my fruit trees in the spring because I spend most of my outdoor time trying to get the garden planted while chasing my kids around. But I'd really like to get some nice eating pears this year, so I'll have to spend a little extra time back there.