Keeping Pesticides on Target January 2010 Two primary causes Pesticide Movement Movement by drift...

Keeping Pesticideson Target

Keeping Pesticides on TargetJanuary 2010

Two primary causes

Pesticide Movement

Movement by drift

Movement by water

Drift


Protect Surface Waters


Atrazine Princep

Setback Requirement

Surface Waters & Wells

Banvel Status

Wells


Protect Groundwater

Users are advised not to apply this chemical

to sand and loamy soils where the water

table (groundwater) is close to the surface

and where the soils are permeable.


Pesticide Drift & Overspray


Reducing droplet size by one-half . . . . . . results in eight times the number of droplets

200Microns

100Microns

Spray Droplet Size

100Microns

100Microns

100Microns

100Microns

100Microns

100Microns

100Microns


Spray Nozzles


Wind Speed


Check Site Conditions


Grapes and 2,4-D


Nonpoint Source

Sources of Pollution

DriftDrift

Runoff

Runoff

Leaching

Leaching

SpillsSpills

Back Siphoning

Back Siphoning

Point Source


Advance Notice to Beekeepers


Scout Fields

Lady Beetle

Lacewing larvae

Syrphid maggot

Alfalfa weevil potasson luna


AppliedPesticide

Biomagnification


Birds in Field


Endangered Species

http://epa.gov/espp/

(800) 447-3813


Animal Toxic Response Team


Summary

(608) [email protected]://ipcm.wisc.edu/pat

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