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Ortho® Home Defense® Backyard Mosquito and Bug Killer Ready-To-Spray
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Ortho® Home Defense® Backyard Mosquito and Bug Killer Ready-To-Spray

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Overview & Benefits

Ortho® Home Defense® Backyard Mosquito and Bug Killer Ready-To-Spray allows you to protect your lawn and landscape from mosquitoes that may transmit diseases like Zika and West Nile, as well as ticks, fleas, and over 200 other insects.  Just hook it up to your hose and spray following label directions.

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How to Use Ortho® Home Defense® Backyard Mosquito & Bug Killer Ready-To-Spray

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Ortho® Home Defense® Backyard Mosquito and Bug Killer Ready-To-Spray
Ortho® Home Defense® Backyard Mosquito and Bug Killer Ready-To-Spray
Ortho® Home Defense® Backyard Mosquito and Bug Killer Ready-To-Spray
Ortho Home Defense Backyard Mosquito & Bug Killer Ready-To-Spray allows you to protect your lawn and landscape from mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, and over 200 other listed insects. Treats up to 5,300 sq. ft. Read the product label for full product instructions.
Features & Benefits
Ready to Spray

Ready to Spray

Shake well and attach to an outdoor garden hose to treat outdoor areas. Ortho Home Defense Backyard Mosquito & Bug Killer Ready-To-Spray is non-staining and odor-free. See product label for full instructions.

Starts Working within Minutes

Starts Working within Minutes

Apply when insects first appear to provide longlasting control. For use on lawns, around the home perimeter, ornamentals, flowers, trees, shrubs, vegetables, and fruit trees.

Protect Your Lawn and Landscape from Mosquitoes

Protect Your Lawn and Landscape from Mosquitoes

Ortho Home Defense Backyard Mosquito & Bug Killer Ready-To-Spray provides up to 3 months of protection against mosquitoes and other insects, including ants, fleas, American dog ticks, and spiders (excluding black widows).

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Overview

  • Kills mosquitoes that may transmit the Zika Virus
  • 3 month protection (applies to ants, fleas, American dog ticks, and spiders excluding black widows)
  • Starts killing within minutes
  • Treats up to 5,300 Sq. Ft.
  • For use on lawns, around home perimeter, ornamentals, flowers, trees, shrubs, vegetables and fruit trees
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How to use

Connect sprayer to hose.  
Turn on water.  
To begin spraying, slide lever to the ON position.  
Spray only until the surface of leaves is wet.  Apply evenly.  
To stop spraying, slide lever to the OFF position.  
Turn off water.
Relieve the water pressure by sliding the lever to WATER.
After water slows to a drip, slide the lever to the OFF position.
You can now disconnect the hose.

Where to use

• Roses and other ornamentals
• Listed vegetables and fruit trees (see label)
• Trees and shrubs
• Lawns
• Around house foundations, porches, patios and stored lumber

Where not to use

All outdoor applications must be limited to spot and crack-and-crevice treatments only, except for the following permitted uses:

  1. 1. Treatment to soil or vegetation around structures
  2. 2. Application to lawns, turf, and other vegetation
  3. 3. Application to building foundations, up to a maximum height of 3 feet.

Other than applications to building foundations, all outdoor applications to hard surfaces such as sidewalks, driveways, patios, porches and structural surfaces (e.g., windows, doors, and eaves) are limited to spot and crack-and-crevice applications only.

Application is prohibited directly into sewers or drains, or to any area like a gutter where drainage to sewers, storm drains, water bodies, or aquatic habitat can occur. Do not allow the product to enter any drain during or after application.

DO NOT TREAT Firewood

When to apply

Apply when insects first appear.

How often to apply

Roses, trees, shrubs: every 7-14 days, as needed

Foundation: every 7-14 days

Lawns: 4-6 weeks

Edibles: every 7 days, as needed

Bugs

Mosquitoes--Malaria, Northern House, Yellowfever, including those that may transmit the Chikungunya virus, yellow fever, dengue fever, encephalitis, West Nile Virus and Zika Virus) 
Adelgids--Eastern Sprucegall
Ants--Argentine, Carpenter, Harvester, Imported Fire, Lasius, Odorous House, Pavement, Pharaoh/Sugar, Pyramid
Aphids--Apple, Black Cherry, Black Pecan, Buckhorn, Greenbug, Pea, Root, Rose, Rosy Apple, Walnut, Yellow Pecan
Beetles--Bean leaf, Billbugs (Bluegrass), Cucumber (Banded, Spotted & Striped), Black Turfgrass Ataenius, Blister, Brown Leaf Notcher, Carpet, Colorado Potato, Corn Rootworm (Mexican, Northern, Southern, & Western), Curculio (Cow Pea & Plum), Elm Leaf, Flea (Black, Dichondra, & Sweetpotato), Ground, Japanese Adult, Ladybeetles, Mexican Bean, Pine Chafer, Pine Shoot, Red Flour, Rose Chafer, Sap, Southern Corn Leaf, Weevils (Annual Bluegrass, Black Vine, Blue Green Citrus Root, Carrot, Cranberry, Diaprepes Root, Little Leaf Notcher, Northern Pine, Orchard, Buckhorn, Greenbug, Pea, Orchid, Pea Leaf, Pecan, Pepper, Pine Shoot, Sweetpotato, Whitefringed
Bees
Borers--American Plum, Common Stalk, European Beetles Bean Leaf, Billbugs (Bluegrass), Com, Hop Vine, Lesser Peachtree, Peach Twig, Cucumber(Banded, Spotted & Striped), Black Peachtree, Southern Com, Southwestern Com, Turfgrass Ataenius, Blister, Brown Leaf Notcher, Squash Vine, Stalk
Mealybugs
Midges
Boxelder Bug
Caterpillars--Alfalfa, Alfalfa Looper, Armyworm (Beet, Fall, Southern, True, & Yellowstriped), Bagworms, Blueberry Spanworm, Budworm, Casebearers (Pecan Leaf & Pecan Nut), Celery Leaftier, Com Earworm (same as Tomato Fruitworm), Cross-Striped Cabbageworm, Cutworms (Black & Western Bean), Filbertworm, Fruitworms (Granberry, Green, & Tomato), Green Cloverworm, Hickory Shuckworm, Imported Cabbageworm, Loopers (Cabbage & Celery), Melonworm, Navel Orangeworm, Orange Tortrix, Painted Lady, Pickleworm, Ringworm, Saltmarsh, Tent, Hornworms (Tobacco & Tomato), Tomato Pinworm, Webworms (Fall, Mimosa, Oak, & Sod), Velvetbean, 
Centipedes 
Chinch Bugs--False, Hairy, Southern 
Cockroaches--American, Asian, Brown Banded, German, Smoky Brown
Crickets
Earwigs
Fleas--Cat, Dog
Fleahoppers 
Flies--Apple Maggot, Biting Flies, Cherry Fruit, Cornsilk, European Crane, House, Walnut Husk
Fungus Gnats
Grasshoppers
Hornets
Lace Bugs
Leaffooted Bugs--Squash Bug
Leafhoppers--Aster/California, Com, Eastern Grape, Glassy Winged Sharpshooter, Potato, Southern Garden, Western Grape
Leafminers--Alder, Boxwood, Holly, Oak, Spruce Needle, Tentiform, Vegetable
Leafrollers--Oblique Banded, Red-Banded, Variegated
Millipedes
Mites--Banks Grass, Broad, Carmine, Chigger, Clover, European, Grain, Pacific Spider, Pecan Leaf Scorch, Pecan Scorch, Red Spider, Spider, Spruce, Two-Spotted Spider 
Mole Crickets 
Moths--Artichoke Plume, Codling, Diamondback, Gypsy, Luceme, Oriental Fruit, Zimmerman Pine 
Periodical Cicadas 
Pillbugs & Rollie Pollies 
Plant Bugs--Tarnished, Lygus Bugs 
Phylloxera--Pecan Leaf, Pecan 
Psyllids 
Sawflies--European Pine, Redheaded Pine, Rose Slug 
Scales--Brown Soft, California Red, Euonymus, Pine Needle, San Jose 
Scorpions 
Sowbugs
Spiders--Black Widow, Brown Recluse, Daddy Long Legs, Hobo, Burrowing Wolf, Pirate Wolf, Thin-legged Wolf 
Spittlebugs--Meadow, Pecan 
Stinkbugs--Brown Marmorated, Kudzu Springtails
Termites
Thrips
Ticks*--American Dog, Brown Dog, Deer (*including ticks that may transmit Lyme disease)
Treehoppers--Three-cornered Alfalfa Hopper
Wasps 
Whiteflies 
Wireworms--Corn, Southern Potato
Yellowjackets

Our Environment

Do not allow this product to run-off into storm drains, drainage ditches, standing water, and gutters.

Guarantee

The Ortho® Guarantee: If for any reason you, the consumer, are not satisfied with this product, mail us your original proof of purchase to obtain a full refund of your purchase price.

Coverage area

Treats up to 5,300 sq. ft.

Category

Bugs
Mosquitoes

Cautions

Harmful if swallowed. Causes moderate eye irritation. Avoid contact with eyes or clothing. Wear long-sleeved shirt and long pants, socks, shoes, and gloves. Wash thoroughly with soap and water after handling and before eating, drinking, chewing gum, using tobacco, or using the toilet. Prolonged or frequently repeated skin contact may cause allergic reactions in some individuals.

Disposal Methods

If Empty: Do not reuse or refill this container.  Place in trash or offer for recycling if available.  
If Partly Filled: Call your local solid waste agency for disposal instructions.  Never place unused product down any indoor (including toilet) or outdoor (including sewer) drain.

Kids & Pets

People and pets may enter the treated area after the spray has dried.

Mowing Tips

When applying to a lawn, the lawn should be mowed and watered within the last 24 hours prior to application. Mowing may be resumed after 2-3 days.

Product Label

This is not the product label. Always read and follow the product label before use.

Product label

Safety Data Sheets can be found at scottsmsds.com

Need an answer to a product question?  Scotts experts are always available by email and phone in our Help Center.

Packaging

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What to Expect

Starts working in minutes!

Active Ingredients

0.3% Bifenthrin, 0.075% Zeta-Cypermethrin

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