Kay

Maybe someone else with more knowledge of the workings of the EPA can speak to this question.

- Rootone F Brand Rooting Hormone
and
- Several pyrethrin products for animals (never did think that that was a good idea)

Imidicloprid is also the active incredient in Bayer Advantage for Fleas.

We do not use that product, because it is a known trigger for seizures "in susceptible individuals."
Of course, you don't know that your dog or your child is "susceptible" until the first time the stuff triggers a seizure.

Having been down that sad road, we're not going there again.

Jeri

Withdrawals can happen for various reasons. For example, cyproconazole (Sentinel) is considered a probable carcinogen. It is also the most effective blackspot fungicide ever, according to anecdotal reports, and is widely used in coffee production and as a wood preservative. EPA decided that those people who both drink coffee and spray roses could increase their lifetime risk. It ordered the producer to withdraw some of the labelled uses. They chose to withdraw it from the home garden market.

Imidacloprid was a low-toxicity product I've counted on for a once-in-spring blast to get rid of sawfly larvae.

But, hey, safeguarding bees is way more important than putting up with some holey leaves for a season.

I know someone personally, on a PhD track in Biology, who has conducted tests on imidacloprid. If it doesn't kill, it seems to enhance reproductive efforts. Personally, I prefer Orthene except for the smell. Merit seems to turn the switch on for spider mite reproduction like no other insecticide I've seen.

So, technically - I wouldn't be that sad to see it go, but it's the principle of the thing of uninvolved/uninformed bureaucrats telling us what's we can use and we can't. Believe me, they are often the last ones who are really in the know. ;-)