Special Review of 23 Active Ingredients - Will You Be Affected?

PMRA recently announced the initiation of a Special Review of 23 active ingredients.  

 

 

2,4-D, Acephate, Amino pyralid, Atrazine, Bromoxynil, Carbaryl, Chloropicrin, Chlorthal-dimethyl, Diazinon, Dichlobenil, Dichlorvos, Difenoconazole, Diphenylamine, Fluazifop-P-butyl, Fluazinam, Hexazinone, Imazapyr, Linuron, Paraquat, Pentachlorophenol, Quintozene, Simazine, Trifluralin

 

CPMA Submits Comments about Pesticide Special Review Process

In response to PMRA's document, Consultation of the Proposed Approach to Special Reviews, CPMA requested PMRA consult with the professional pest management industry when the use is important to PMPs. The comments can be found here.

 

FICAM D Update

CPMA is aware that the loss of FICAM D was disadvantageous to the pest management industry. Look for an article this spring concerning alternative techniques and formulations for controlling stinging pests in voids. CPMA is also working to support manufacturers that want to help rebuild the arsenal against stinging insects.

 

CPMA, Neonics, Bees and other Pollinators

CPMA continues to monitor government action concerning pollinators, including bees and neonicotinoids. PMRA's attempts to address the decline in the bee population by regulating agricultural uses of neonicotinoids, especially during seed planting, is being closely watched by CPMA for effects on the professional pest management industry. In addition to closely monitoring the situation, to proactively ensure PMRA understands PMP's concern that bees and other pollinators can be a public health threat, CPMA will be sending a letter to PMRA. This letter will reinforce to PMRA that the professional pest management industry must be able to continue to protect the public from stinging and biting pests.  

 

The oriental cockroach, Blatta orientalis, was introduced to Ontario decades ago and has managed to persist since then. You may only rarely encounter oriental cockroaches, but being able to identify and understand them can be quite helpful when you are inspecting a structure. Oriental cockroaches have a uniformly dark brown body and pronotum and an overall greasy sheen to them. Females (3 cm) of this robust species are slightly larger than males (2.5 cm), but wings are the best way to tell males and females apart; males have ¾ length wings, while females have only wing pads. Given the reduced wings, it is no surprise that oriental cockroaches can't fly. The length of the wings is a useful feature to help separate this species from other cockroaches that you may encounter.  
 
This species is unique as it prefers to live in cold and damp environments.
Oriental cockroaches are usually found at or below ground level and are common in basements, sewers, crawlspaces, and outdoors in dumps, mulch, animal enclosures, and under wood. These environments offer decaying organic matter and biotic slime that these roaches love to eat. They also don't have a lot of competition from other insects in these cold places. Oriental cockroaches are poor climbers and have a sluggish disposition in general. This may be attributed to the cold and damp environments in which they live, because insect activities levels are generally lower at colder temperatures. In addition to being inadvertently carried into homes in bags and boxes, these cockroaches often gain entry to structures through doors, windows, service ducts, and structural cracks and crevices.  
 
Adult oriental cockroaches usually do not live more than a half year. However, this does not mean that this is a short-lived species. Due to living in a cold environment, development is slow, taking a year or two for an oriental cockroach egg to develop into an adult. Oothecae are reddish brown to black, less than a 1.25 cm long, have only 8 segments (containing 16 eggs), and are dropped or glued in areas where they are protected by debris.  
 
Oriental cockroaches can harbor a variety of food-borne pathogens, in addition to the usual problems caused by having pests in the home. A combination of moisture reduction, sanitation, harborage removal and chemical control strategies is the best approach to controlling an infestation of these cockroaches. Their preferred habitat may keep them out of sight for homeowners, but be on the lookout for oriental cockroaches when you're inspecting a structure. 

Despite almost a dozen speakers urging Councillors to ban cosmetic pesticides, city council decided to continue its current pest management approach.

  

"The system will go on as is," Coun. Michael Oshry said following a community services committee meeting.

  

The city was asked to ban cosmetic pesticides several times the past 20 years, most recently turning down the idea in 2012 over concerns about controlling invasive species, cost and lack of proof about the benefits. Read more...   

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Haut-parleurs Urge Conseil pour l'interdiction des pesticides cosmétiques   

Edmonton Journal, 3 mars 2014   

 

Malgré une dizaine de haut-parleurs invitant les conseillers d'interdire les pesticides cosmétiques, le conseil municipal a décidé de poursuivre sa démarche de lutte en cours.

"Le système continuer comme est," Con. Michael Oshry dit après une réunion du comité des services communautaires.

A été demandé à la ville d'interdire les pesticides cosmétiques à plusieurs reprises ces 20 dernières années, plus récemment, en baissant l'idée en 2012 plus de préoccupations au sujet de contrôle des espèces envahissantes, le coût et le manque de preuve sur les avantages. Lire la suite...