Michele, I guess I'm confused about the Bayer Advanced Complete Insect Killer. You said in one of your posts above " I use Avid (which is for more than just aphids). It's expensive, but it lasts a long time. Before that I used Bayer Advanced Complete insect killer. It's a systemic so it lasts I think about 30 days."
I assumed you meant the Bayer Advanced was a systemic to last about 30 days, and that's what I wanted to spray my daylilies with for aphids. But when I checked WalMart the Bayer Advanced I found said underneath in smaller print something like "For soil and Turf". So I'm confused -- would I dare spray that on my daylilies? I'm looking for something simple and either premixed or that can be mixed in with up to a gallon of water. I have a little 1 gal. battery operated sprayer and have some nerve damage and arthritis in my hands so I don't do well pumping or squeeze spraying. But I don't want to get into something like Avid. I'd like to keep it simple.
Also, I had already bought two ready-to-use hand spray bottles of Ortho Rose & Flower Insect Killer that says it kills 100+ insects fast and gives up to 4 week protection and it specifically mentions Japanese beetles, aphids, whiteflies, thrips and scale. So now that I realize you were talking about the Bayer Advanced for Trees and Shrubs, I'm wondering if I should try the Ortho instead and just dump the contents in my sprayer. I don't want to hurt these daylilies after babying them through this winter, but I do have a very healthy aphid collection in my pots now and right after it rains this week I want to spray them. It does say "For use on indoor and outdoor plants," so hopefully it wouldn't be so potent that it might harm the daylilies. What do you think?
