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Malathion provides cost-effective solution to grasshoppers

Project start date: 01 January 2004
Project end date: 01 July 2006
Publication date: 01 July 2006
Project status: Completed
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Summary

During the first year of the project the Wattle Range Beef Manager Group had good results in controlling wingless grasshoppers in the mid to lower southeast of South Australia using bran flakes soaked in malathion and flown on hatching sites before young hoppers moved away.

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Project manager: David Beatty
Primary researcher: MLA