D-Force Insecticide

D-FORCE HPX made by Waterbury was recently purchased by FMC Corp. and is now manufacturered by FMC under the name D-FORCE Insecticide. Same active ingredient, but with a new look.

D-Force Insecticide has the power of Deltamethrin for above ground termite control, bedbugs, plus 50 other insects. D-Force Insecticide provides 100% control of crawling insects for up to 8 weeks in a 14 oz. aerosol can.

*For best results, be sure that the plastic tabs on either side of the application are broken, and hold the can in either a completely vertical or completely horizontal position.

How D-Force HPX Works

D-Force is a ready-to-use, pressurized (aerosol) insecticide with the active ingredient Deltamethrin. Deltamethrin is a synthetic pyrethroid that kills by acting as a high-power poison to the insect's central nervous system. Once poisoned, the insect’s nerve cells become excited, causing paralysis and eventual death. D-Force is designed to kill insects either by direct spray or by contact with the dry residual for up to 8 weeks after application.

Target Pests

Ants, Bees, Bedbugs, Carpet Beetles, Centipedes, Cockroaches, Crickets, Firebrats, Fleas, Flour Beetles, Grain Beetles, Ground Beetles, Gnats, Midges, Mole Crickets, Moths, Pillbugs, Silverfish, Sowbugs, Spiders, Ticks and Many Other Crawling Insects, Carpenter Ants and Carpenter Bees.

PESTS CONTROLLED:

Ants, Bees, Bedbugs, Carpet Beetles (Black, Furniture, Varied), Centipedes, Chocolate Moths, Cigarette Beetles, Clover Mites, Cluster Flies, Cockroaches (including Asian Cockroaches), Crickets, Drugstore Beetles, Earwigs, Elmleaf Beetles, Firebrats, Fleas, Flour Beetles (Red and Confused), Grain Beetles (Rusty, Merchant, Saw-toothed), Ground Beetles, Gnats, Hornets, Lesser Grain Borers, Midges, Mole Crickets, Moths, Mud Daubers, Pillbugs, Rice Weevils, Silverfish, Sowbugs, Spiders, Spider Beetles, Ticks (including Lone Star and Dog Ticks), Tobacco Moths, Wasps, Webbing Clothes Moths, Wood Infesting Pests: Termites (Subterranean, Formosan, Drywood), Carpenter Ants, Carpenter Bees

Target Uses of D-Force

D-Force Insecticide is a convenient, ready-to-use product with the same active ingredient as the popular Suspend SC insecticide concentrate. D-Force treats the most common household crawling and flying insect pests, including ants, cockroaches, spiders, silverfish, pantry pests, bed bugs, carpenter bees, swarming termites, and many more. The convenience of an aerosol is ideal for small areas, such as apartments, or for detailed treatments such as cracks and crevices.

D-Force can be used in a variety of areas, including residential and commercial buildings and food-handling establishments. Use indoors as a spot or crack and crevice treatment, or outdoors for perimeter pests, as a spot treatment, or for surface applications for flying or crawling pests. D-Force should not be used as a broadcast treatment or as a substitute for insecticide concentrates when treating large areas.

ACTIVE INGREDIENT: Deltamethrin 0.06%

Application Instructions

This has residual action which keeps on killing for up to 8 weeks after you spray. Remove pets, birds and cover fish aquariums before spraying. Hold container upright. Do not spray up into air. Remove protective cap and direct spray away from face. Hold can 12-15 inches from surface being sprayed. Press button down and spray as directed. Spray surface until slightly wet.

Food/Feed Handling Establishments:

For control of all labeled pests, applications are permitted in food/feed and non-food/non-feed areas of food/feed handling and processing establishments as a general surface, spot or crack and crevice treatment. *1 second spray per spot.

• This product is authorized for use in Federally Inspected Meat and Poultry Plants as a crack and crevice treatment. Do not use in commercial food/feed handling establishments, restaurants, or other commercial establishments while food is commercially prepared, processed, or served. In the home, all food processing surfaces should be covered during treatment or thoroughly washed before use. Exposed food/feed should be covered or removed.
• Food/Feed handling establishments are defined as places other than private residences in which exposed food/feed is held, processed, prepared or served. Included also are areas for receiving, storing, packing (canning, bottling, wrapping, boxing), preparing, edible waste storage and enclosed processing systems (mills, dairies, edible oils, syrups) of food/feed. Serving areas where food/feed is exposed and the facility is in operation are also considered food/feed areas.

Non-Food/Non-Feed Areas:

Examples of non-food/non-feed areas include garbage rooms, lavatories, floor drains (to sewers), entries and vestibules, offices, locker rooms, machine rooms, boiler rooms, mop closets and storage (after packaging, canning or bottling). All areas that insects inhabit or through which insects may enter should be treated.

Spot or Crack & Crevice Applications:

Except in federally inspected meat and poultry plants, spot or crack and crevice applications may be made while the facility is in operation provided exposed food is covered or removed from area being treated prior to application.

Because this is a ready-to-use product, yield will vary depending on application. For pests that require multiple treatments, such as bed bugs, many users require one can per room being treated.

Standard Application Rates:

• Food-handling establishments: 1 second spray per spot
• Other treatments: Hold can 12-15 inches from surface being treated. Spray surface until slightly damp. Do not overtreat.

For use in the following areas:

Food Handling Establishments, Including Food Service, Manufacturing and Processing Establishments, Such as Restaurants, Cafeterias, Supermarkets, Bakeries, Breweries, Dairies, Meat, Poultry & Egg Processing & Packaging Plants, Canneries, Feed Handling Establishments Including Feed Manufacturing and Processing Establishments. Also For Use In Homes, Tents, Aircraft, Apartments, Atriums, Attics, Automobiles, Basements, Bathrooms, Boats, Bottling facilities, Buses, Cabins, Campers, Candy Plants, Carports, Cat Sleeping Quarters, Clothes Storage, Condominiums, Decks, Dens, Driveways, Garages, Gazebos, Granaries & Grain Mills, Hospitals, Hotels, Industrial Buildings, Kitchens, Laboratories, Lanais, Living Rooms, Mausoleums, Offices, Parlors, Patios, Pet Sleeping Areas, Play Rooms, Porches, Railcars, Recreational Vehicles, Rooms, Schools, Ships & Vessels, Solariums, Storage Areas, Sun Rooms, Trailers, Trucks, Utility Rooms, Verandahs, Warehouses and Wineries.

Indoors

Cockroaches (including adult and immature stages of both non-resistant and organophosphate and carbamate resistant strains), ants, booklice, boxelder bugs, centipedes, crickets, dermestids, firebrats, fleas palmetto bugs, silverfish, sowbugs, ticks and waterbugs: Apply thoroughly to all areas where these pests crawl and hide, especially in cracks and crevices, and hidden areas around sinks and storage areas, behind baseboards, around doors and windows, behind and under refrigerators, cabinets, sinks and stoves, the underside of shelves, drawers, bookcases, and similar areas. When pests are driven out, spray directly.

Ants: Spray freely around ant trails, doors and windows and other places where ants enter the house.

Fleas and ticks on surfaces: Remove pet bedding and destroy or clean thoroughly. Spray pet resting quarters. Adult fleas and larvae contacted by spray will be killed. Put fresh bedding down once spray has dried. Do not spray animals directly. For best results, pets should be treated with an appropriate before returning to the treated area. Spray rugs and carpets when infestations are bad. Test first for staining on an inconspicuous piece prior to use.

Bedbugs: Remove linens and wash before reuse. Apply to mattresses, especially tufts, folds, and edges until moist. Apply to the interior of the frame. Allow to dry before remaking bed. Treat baseboards, molding and spot treat floors. Not recommended as the sole treatment for bed bugs.

Spiders: Apply along and behind baseboards, to window and door frames, corners, pipes, storage localities, attics, crawl spaces and other areas over which these pests may crawl.

Centipedes, Ground Beetles, Pillbugs, Sowbugs and Ticks: Apply around doors and windows and other places where these pests may enter premises. Treat baseboards, storage areas and other locations where these pests are found.

WOOD INFESTING INSECTS: Termites* (Subterranean, Formosan and Drywood)- For control of above-ground termites in localized areas, apply to voids and galleries in damaged wood, and in spaces between wooden structural members and between the sill plate and foundation where wood is vulnerable. Applications may be made to inaccessible areas by drilling, and then injecting with the supplied void injector into the damaged wood or wall voids. These applications are not a substitute for mechanical alteration, soil treatment or foundation treatment but merely a supplement for controlling active infestations of subterranean termites. Termite carton nests in building voids may be injected using a void injector. It is desirable to physically remove carton nest material from building voids when such nests are found. This type of application is intended to be a supplemental treatment for control of drywood and above-ground subterranean termites and other wood-infesting insects. Application to attics, crawl spaces, unfinished basements, or manmade voids may be sprayed to control exposed worker and winged reproductive forms of termites. For control of swarming or reproductive stages of termites, spray to the swarm or area on which they collect. The purpose of such applications of this product is to kill workers or winged reproductive forms which may be present at the time of treatment. Such applications are not a substitute for mechanical alteration, soil treatment or foundation treatment but are merely a supplement. This product is not recommended as sole protection against termites. For active indoor termite infestations, get a professional inspection.

Carpenter Ants: For effective control in houses and other structures, apply as general surface, spot, crack and crevice or wall void application. Apply around doors and windows and other places where ants may enter the premises and where they crawl and hide. Spray into cracks and crevices or through small drilled holes into voids where these ants or their nests are present.

For control of carpenter bees in structures, spray the liquid directly into gallery entrance holes. Following treatment, the entrance holes may be left open 24 hours to be certain that returning adult bees are killed. When there is no activity, the hole may be sealed with a suitable sealant.

Outdoors

Point nozzle away from face. Hold can in a slight downward angle, approximately 12-15 inches from surface to be sprayed. For best results, spray when air is calm. Spray with wind if breeze is blowing.

Perimeter Treatment: For control of building infestation to ants, clover mites, crickets and sowbugs (pillbugs). Spray foundation of building where insects are active and may find entrance up to a height of 2 to 3 feet. Apply as a residual spray to outside surfaces of buildings where insects tend to congregate. Spray areas include areas such as screens, window frames, eaves, porches, patios, garages and refuse dumps.

Crawling Insects: Ants, Cockroaches, (including Asian Cockroaches), Centipedes, Crickets, Mole Crickets and Silverfish. Spray infested surface of patio or picnic area, hitting as many insects as possible. Also spray legs of tables and chairs to repel ants. Ants: Apply to ant trails, around doors and windows and other places where ants maybe found.

Lone Star Ticks, Dog Ticks, Crickets, Fleas and Earwigs: Apply thoroughly to infestation in bushes, grass or weeds.

Wasps, Mud Daubers, Hornets and Bees: Spray nests and bees directly. D-Force is not a knockdown agent, so insects will not die immediately.

Flying Insects: Houseflies, Gnats, Mosquitoes and Small Flying Moths: Use only on outdoor surfaces. Spray outside surfaces of window and door frames and other areas where these pests may enter the home. Also spray localized resting areas, such as under eaves, porches, light fixtures and cords, railings, etc. where these insects may rest. Insects coming to rest on treated surfaces will be killed.

Termites: For control of above-ground termites inside trees, utility poles, fencing and decking materials and similar structural members, drill to find the interior infested cavity and spray using void injector. Termite carton nests in trees may be spray injected with product using the supplied void injector. Multiple injection points to varying depths may be necessary. It is desirable to physically remove carton nest material from trees when such nests are found.

D-Force Features

• Protects up to 8 weeks.
• Killing action and residual control
• Indoor/outdoor use
• Broad spectrum insect control
• Includes both a spray and a crack and crevice actuator for versatility
• Residual control in the convenience of a ready-to-use product

Extra Tips

• Keep children and pets out of treatment area until product has dried.
• Not recommended as the sole treatment for listed pests such as bed bugs and termites.
• If using in conjunction with a baiting program, such as for ants or roaches, do not apply spray on top of baits or in areas where baits may be applied.
• Do not use a broadcast spray indoors or outdoors away from structures except as directed.
• Do not apply directly to clothing for webbing clothes moths, bed bugs, or other pests.
• Use the crack and crevice straw for detailed applications such as bed bug treatment.
• When treating outdoors, spray when air is calm.
• D-Force has a slight odor that will dissipate after application.
• D-Force is not a knockdown agent, so insects sprayed directly will not die immediately.

D-FORCE HPX made by Waterbury was recently purchased by FMC Corp. and is now manufacturered by FMC under the name D-FORCE Insecticide. Same active ingredient, but with a new look.

D-Force Insecticide has the power of Deltamethrin for above ground termite control, bedbugs, plus 50 other insects. D-Force Insecticide provides 100% control of crawling insects for up to 8 weeks in a 14 oz. aerosol can. 

*For best results, be sure that the plastic tabs on either side of the application are broken, and hold the can in either a completely vertical or completely horizontal position.