Bonide Captain Jack's Deadbug Brew, 32 oz Concentrate Outdoor Insecticide and Mite Killer for Organic Gardening, 2 lbs

Stopped the mite problem I had without harming the plant whatsoever. and prevented other bugs, insects, worms, ants, even catapillers. Doesn't seem to have any effect on grasshoppers, moths, certain spiders though.

I am experienced enough to know that I should never bring new plants in amongst my established plants until after I have quarantined them. I forgot that rule a few months ago and brought home several rosebushes from Sam's that were infected with thrips. The thrips spread to all of my other roses. I fought for weeks spraying regular first with Pyrethrin, and then with insecticidal soap. Using those every 5 days for a couple of months did not get rid of the thrips, but they hurt my roses. Finally, I tried the Dead Bug Brew with spinosad which I had hoped to avoid because bugs can and do develop resistance to it if you use it too often. NEVER use this more than 6 times in any growing season from Spring all the way through to Winter. Anyway, I used this twice. The first time I did it correctly, and immediately after I sprayed the roses, it rained like mad. So much for that treatment. Once the rain moved out of the area, I sprayed again, but this time I used less of the Brew than I was supposed to use. I only used 50% of the recommended amount. I figured I wasted another treatment. However, to my surprise, after the second application, the thrips were gone! In future, I will use Dead Bug Brew over Pyrethrin and insecticidal soap. I should mention I have used Neem Oil in the past, but I will never use it again. It comes with too many problems. It can seriously damage your plants in sunlight. Plus, it really smells awful. I do not recommend it. I doubt my rosebushes will return to full vigour until next Spring/Summer. The Pyrethin and insecticidal soap treatments for two months were just too harsh on them. Wish I had used Dead Bug Brew first.

I absolutely love this product. It’s become my go-to treatment for dealing with pests on my plants, and it’s consistently given me great results, when used with a 360 sprayer! It’s easy to apply, and after using it as directed, I noticed a significant improvement in my plants with fewer pest problems. It’s been an important part of keeping my indoor garden healthy.

Captain Jack’s products works well. The only pest I still have problems with are small, black nats.

I thought my plants were doomed! Thrips were spreading to every plant in my garden, but the onions! There was no way I was going to chop and trash that many so I bought Deadbug Brew. It took a few weeks and several applications, but all the new leaves look thrip free! Its now been 6 weeks since new healthy leaves started growing and I'd say 90-95% of my plants look free of it. Pic of my poor Marigolds pre-spray.

This stuff actually works. My Brussel Sprouts were under siege (to put it lightly) from cabbage worms. Within hours of applying the diluted mixture there were hundreds of lifeless caterpillars all over the place. Thanks to Captain Jack's I may actually get to harvest Brussel Sprouts this year. Going forward I plan on keeping a 1 gallon pump sprayer dedicated to this stuff and ready to deploy at a moments notice.

My tomato plants were being overrun by thrips and spider mites and this saved the day! Also helped with leaf miners on citrus. This is now my go-to insecticide for edible gardening.

Two of my mature arborvitae had a bad bag worm problem last year. I spent weeks manually removing the bag worm bags from the trees. Spotted one bag this spring and a few tiny bag worm larvae starting to feed. I sprayed this Spinosad insecticide twice, 10 days apart. No bags or bag worms in sight. Spray at the proper time with the proper dilution and it will work great.