Southern Ag Thuricide BT Caterpillar Control, 16oz - Pint

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Absolute Lifesaver for Vegetable Gardens—Stops Caterpillars Cold Without Harming Bees! If you are watching your hard work get chewed to pieces by worms, loopers, or hornworms, do not panic and reach for harsh chemical sprays. I bought this Southern Ag Thuricide BT after a massive wave of hornworms completely stripped my tomato plants overnight, and it completely turned the battle around. It is a highly effective, natural bacterial solution that strikes the perfect balance between aggressively target-killing pests and being completely safe for beneficial insects. Here is my honest breakdown after treating my backyard garden. The Pros The biological targeting is incredibly precise. The active ingredient, Bacillus thuringiensis, only targets the digestive systems of caterpillars and worms that actively eat your treated leaves, meaning it will not harm honeybees, ladybugs, birds, or earthworms. A little bit goes an incredibly long way. The liquid concentrate is highly potent, requiring only one to two tablespoons per gallon of water, which makes a single 16-ounce bottle last for multiple growing seasons. It leaves absolutely no chemical residue on your food. Because it is a natural, soil-borne bacterium, it breaks down quickly in sunlight, allowing you to safely spray your vegetables right up to the very day of harvest. It acts remarkably fast once ingested. The caterpillars stop eating almost immediately after swallowing a treated leaf, meaning your plants are safe from further chewing damage even while the pests take a couple of days to fully perish. The Cons / Things to Know It requires strategic timing for the best results. Because sunlight breaks down the active bacteria over time, you need to spray your plants in the late afternoon or early evening so the caterpillars can consume it in the dark before the morning sun weakens it. It must be eaten to work. It is not a contact killer, so simply spraying a caterpillar directly will not do anything. You have to ensure thorough coverage on both the tops and bottoms of the leaves so they ingest it when they take their next bite. Final Verdict This is a premium-grade organic pest control solution at an unbeatable price point. Whether you are dealing with hornworms on tomatoes, cabbage loopers on broccoli, or bagworms on ornamental shrubs, this stuff holds up beautifully. I will definitely keep a bottle on hand every spring!

This works very rapidly with very little spray.

If you have geraniums or petunias this is a must have. I spray it on at least once a week to keep the bud worms from eating the flower buds before they get a chance to bloom. I have tried many different things for this problem and this is the only stuff that works. Maybe ther is something else out there that works but they dont allow shipping to California. It is natural and won't kill the bees.

The bottle is sturdy with a secure cap and clear labeling with mixing instructions. The liquid mixes smoothly into water without clumping, and the 16oz size provides enough for multiple applications in a medium garden. The sprayer compatibility is good, and the solution sprays evenly through a standard pump sprayer. The packaging is practical for storage on a shelf. This appears to be a straightforward, ready-to-dilute BT product in liquid form. I’ll update after a full growing season to report on long-term storage stability, how well the concentrate holds up in varying temperatures, and overall product performance over time. These seem like a convenient option for gardeners looking for a liquid BT concentrate in a practical pint size. I’d recommend them for anyone wanting an easy-to-mix biological product for garden use.

Applied during and after removing the borers (using the “surgical” method). Works great. I’m amazed how quickly my plants bounced back. They started to look better the next day.

This is fast acting and safe. Follow the instructions and you will have good results. The day after the initial use there were no more catipillar dropping on my cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli or kale. The concentrate is the best buy for big gardens.

My Eastern Red Cedar is a favorite of bagworms. There were no problems until some nitwits cutting down a nearby Boxelder Maple dumped the huge stumps right next to the Cedar in my front yard, and left them there for several days. The damage to my lawn was bad enough, then later I noticed what looked like dinky pinecones hanging all over the lower branches. But cedars grow little blue berries, not pinecones. So what the heck were these things? A bit of research told me that bagworms will live inside the bark of Boxelder Maples. But with the stumps lying right next to the cedar tree, its pungent aroma attracted the bagworms like moths to a flame. I manually pulled off literally hundreds of bagworm sacks, which must be physically destroyed to prevent reinfestation. I noticed they had decimated the foliage on the lower branches. Literally stripped them bare. Bagworms will destroy entire trees if not eradicated. For months afterward, I kept looking for those little pinecone things, finding ones here and there once in a while. I was pleased to see the bare branches regrowing their foliage. Now I keep a lookout for not only visible sacks, but any indication of damage. Not content with simply removing the visible bags, I bought this anti-caterpillar product. The entire 20 foot tall tree was thoroughly sprayed several times, yet there’s still enough left in the bottle for a couple more applications. Over the summer, after spraying the tree in the spring, I noticed wasps investigating the tree for several months. Clearly they were searching for tiny insects and such, so I let them do their thing. Whether bagworms or some other pest, they were welcome to eat whatever they could find. Unlike hornets, wasps tend to be relatively docile. They aren’t interested in people or animals; they just want to eat every bug they can find. In spring, I plan to spray the entire tree every few weeks until I run out of product. This stuff doesn’t harm other insects, just bagworms and other unwelcome caterpillars. Anything hurting my tree by feasting on it must die! (Birds and rabbits and stuff are more than welcome to eat the berries, though. Bon appétit!)

Have some flowers in pots outside and noticed the leaves getting eaten and the flowers not doing well. Mixed this with water as directed in a spray bottle and applied to my flowers. The flowers are doing much better. It works.

Quick delivery. Product as described