Captain Jack's Dead Bug Brew (Spinosad)

[stoNerd]

Active ingredient: Spinosad

Just wondering if anyone else has tried it, and if it worked for you?

I used it to kill caterpillar larvae that were living inside my stem.

I'd give it a 3/5 just because it seemed expensive for such a small amount. It did kill larvae, but they would come back every week.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

*I tried to post this in the products review section..

 

[BudToker]

I have used Monterey Garden Insect Spray (Spinosad) to wipe out thrips. It works every time!

I am thankful for the inquisitive scientist that returned from his Caribbean vacation with soil samples containing Saccharopolyspora spinosa.

- BT

 

[tomfooler]

anyone know where I can obtain anything containing spinosad in the UK??
need to deal with thrips.
thanks

 

[Vandenberg]

This Spinosad-Based Product Takes No Prisoners!
Spider mites be no more!
Captain jacks does work very well and is nontoxic to mammals, organic style.

Spinosad is a naturally occurring bacillus that is derived from a soil bacterium that is toxic to a wide variety of insects. It can be used to control caterpillars, thrips, leafminers, spider mites, mosquitoes, ants, fruit flies and many others. It is not toxic to most beneficial insects, although it should not be used around bees. It has low toxicity to fish, birds, and mammals.

Back in 1892, on the grounds of an abandoned rum distillery on a Caribbean island, a soil sample was collected.
In this soil sample they found a unique bacterium with insecticidal qualities.
Captain Jack's Deadbug Brew is derived from the Spinosad developed from this bacterium.
Spinosad works on the insect's nervous system, causing paralysis and then death in 1-2 days.
Since the insects are paralyzed, they may stay on the plants and be mistaken for live insects; always check for Spinosad' s effect 2-3 days after spraying to evaluate control in the insect population.

Captain Jack's Deadbug Brew is meant to be used for control of the listed insects and should not adversely impact beneficial insects, spiders and predatory mites.
Available as a liquid or a dust.
I first used this product about the time of this original posting in 2010 and Spinosad has been a go to anytime the un-invited spider mites decided to crash the various growing plant parties with all of the succulent hors d'oeuvres available.
They suck! ;-)

Vandenberg

 

[growshopfrank]

A commercial spinosad product FWIW.

Success® Naturalyte® – Crop Protection

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[Nannymouse]

Started using the Capt.Jack's about a year ago, for houseplants. There's just no keeping the bugs out of this house, so it needs frequent applications...not a problem, i use my gallon sprayer nearly every day, especially this time of the year, getting little seedlings started for the five outdoor gardens. Have not tried it on the outdoor veggies...it's a bit pricey for big applications, i would think. We don't usually use much on the outdoor stuff, anyway.

 

[Vandenberg]

Many products on the market now contain Spinosad, since about 2017....
Spinosad concentrates can be a bit pricey pretty fast so the Captain Jack is affordable if you want to buy just a small quantity for a small garden and looking for 20 dollars or so solution to a mite infestation and is also readily available and it works, so it does tick those boxes

According to wikipedia:
Spinosad is an insecticide based on chemical compounds found in the bacterial species Saccharopolyspora spinosa.
The genus Saccharopolyspora was discovered in 1985 in isolates from crushed sugarcane.
Spinosa was isolated from soil collected inside a nonoperational sugar mill rum still in the Virgin Islands.

Spinosad is a novel mode-of-action insecticide derived from a family of natural products obtained by fermentation of S. spinosa.
Spinosyns occur in over 20 natural forms, and over 200 synthetic forms (spinosoids) have been produced in the lab.[4]
Spinosad contains a mix of two spinosoids, spinosyn A, the major component, and spinosyn D (the minor component), in a roughly 17:3 ratio.[1

Mode of action:

Spinosad is highly active, by both contact and ingestion, in numerous insect species.[5]
Its overall protective effect varies with insect species and life stage.
It affects certain species only in the adult stage, but can affect other species at more than one life stage.
The species subject to very high rates of mortality as larvae, but not as adults, may gradually be controlled through sustained larval mortality.[5]

The mode of action of spinosoid insecticides is by a neural mechanism
.[6]
The spinosyns and spinosoids have a novel mode of action, primarily targeting binding sites on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) of the insect nervous system that are distinct from those at which other insecticides have their activity.
Spinosoid binding leads to disruption of acetylcholine neurotransmission.[2]

Spinosad also has secondary effects as a γ-amino-butyric acid (GABA) neurotransmitter agonist.[2]
It kills insects by hyperexcitation of the insect nervous system.[2]
Spinosad so far has proven not to cause cross-resistance to any other known insecticide.[7]


Vandenberg