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When using Talstar XTRA Granular Insecticide to treat for mole crickets, it’s very important to treat them at the correct time of the year.  Controlling mole crickets soon after they hatch will offer the fastest knockdown of the current population and help avoid damage later in the year.  Check areas in your lawn in the spring for damage cause by mole crickets.  This is usually in places under and around trees, under and around bushes, around decks and patios, areas were leaf debris has collected, etc.  Even though eggs hatch in the summer, damage will not become visible until the following spring, after the immature mole crickets have developed and grown.  Applying your insecticide in the spring, can begin to treat those that are hatching in the summer.  When treating for mole crickets, you should be using 2.3-4.6 pounds per 1000 sq ft.   Be sure that you’re watering in your Talstar XTRA with at at least a half inch of water to ensure it’s moving past the surface of the soil and down into the top layer.  The product label has specific instructions regarding mole crickets as follows: Mole Cricket adults: Achieving acceptable control of adult mole crickets is difficult because preferred grass areas are subject to continuous invasion during the early spring by this extremely active stage. Applications should be made as late in the day as possible and should be watered in with up to 0.5 inches of water immediately after treatment. If the soil is not moist, then it is important to irrigate before application to bring the mole crickets closer to the soil surface where contact with the insecticide will be maximized. Grass areas that receive pressure from adult mole crickets should be treated at peak egg hatch to ensure optimum control of subsequent nymph populations (see below). Mole Cricket nymphs: Grass areas that received intense adult mole cricket pressure in the spring should be treated immediately prior to peak egg hatch. Optimal control is achieved at this time because young nymphs are more susceptible to insecticides and they are located near the soil surface where the insecticide is most concentrated. Control of larger, more damaging, nymphs later in the year may require both higher application rates and more frequent applications to maintain acceptable control. Applications should be made as late in the day as possible and should be watered in with up to 0.5 inches of water immediately after treatment. If the soil is not moist, then it is important to irrigate before application to bring the mole crickets closer to the soil surface where contact with the insecticide will be maximized.

Answer last updated on: 09/10/2019

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