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Or the average joe who just mixes up some chem and sprays away.
You are right by the letter of the law. I hold a pa9 spray ticket or powered knapsack. The law in the uk is quite in detailed but the reality is that no body but a few bother with it. The reaity is that corporate agri spray toxins into water ways over areas where dogs and peaple walk and over workers. The farmer agent orange around my house just sprayed weed killer on his grain crop a few days before harvest. What about hortiulture workers ending up in ICU with bad pestidcide poisoning from work.I've just come from a talk given by one of the guys helping the NBU at Folkestone and I think fibronil IS the problem. The guy said that the were tracking the hornets by painting them with fluorescent paint pens while they fed on bait stations without disurbing the hornets so it would be just as easy to dab them with custard.
However there was a pest control guy there who said the problem was that Fibronil was not licenced for use in the custard formulation so it would be illegal to use it in that form.
Or the average joe who just mixes up some chem and sprays away.