Pest Management Professional, May 2017
The USFS Testing Program has a long history of working with cooperators from chemical manufacturers seeking federal registration of their new termiticide products Our unit offers installation and reading of plots using the groundboard concrete slab and stake methods as well as pesticide residual samples This is a long test period six years from installation to the complete five years of efficacy required by the EPA Over this time we provide product manufacturers with yearly updates on the most recent data for their products in our tests Tests are conducted at three sites the Chipola Experimental Forest in northwestern Florida the Harrison Experimental Forest in southern Mississippi and the Calhoun Experimental Forest in western South Carolina which all are inhabited by subterranean termite species of Reticulitermes Because of the recent loss of our fourth site visit PMPPestTalk net 2017USFS to discover why we are currently considering options for the establishment of a new southwestern site The move would allow us to test product performance against Heterotermes another destructive genus of subterranean termite TEST METHODS In its Product Performance Test Guideline OPPTS 8103600 the EPA specifies evaluations of soil applied termiticides Currently two protocols are accepted for Continued from page 60 Continued on page 64 USFS TERMITICIDE REPORT Photo USFS Soil sampling from a plot
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