Eco Oil Organic Miticide Insecticide

Eco Oil ineffective and useless - another New Age hype – One large review already, showing Eco Oil for what it is - an expensive panacea for those sucked in by the usual lifestyle promoters. Have applied it to my roses three times, and the aphids have come back worse than ever. They are thriving on the stuff, which is not doubt composed of Manuka Honey and all the other "yummies" so loved by our New Agers. Maybe the aim is to focus their attention on the product, rather upon the tender shoots upon which they have piled themselves. That is being kind, though. Used to use White Oil but seems to be out of stock at the moment where I live. One star for not killing ladybirds, though sadly they seem to have now disappeared.

ECO OIL ORGANIC MITICIDE INSECTICIDE - a misleading waste of money - DO NOT BUY!!! – ECO OIL ORGANIC MITICIDE INSECTICIDE https://ocp.com.au/ Based on our experience, OCP (Organic Crop Protectants) Eco-Oil is an expensive and totally ineffective product against aphids in our fruit orchard (primarily citrus), unlike white oil which is far less expensive and worked very well. Here’s OCP’s blurb from their own ad copy touting it as an alternative to mineral (white) oil products and its general effectiveness against various sap sucking insects including aphids (probably the most common garden insects people need to control)…

“eco-oil controls a BROAD RANGE of insects, including scale, mites, APHIDS, whitefly and leafminer. Because eco-oil uses light botanical oils that boil off plant surfaces fast, there is less risk of burning foliage with eco-oil than with white oil and other mineral/petroleum oil sprays“

“FIRSTLY IT KILLS SAP-SUCKING INSECTS LIKE APHIDS, mites, scale, whitefly, mealybugs, and citrus leafminer.“ [capitalised words my emphasis]

Unfortunately, we didn’t read the reviews on Bunnings and elsewhere which confirmed often, that this product doesn’t control aphids and other insects indicated on the label (see also photos attached). It was also reported to burn foliage; another advantage that Eco-Oil states it minimises. You’d reasonably expect based on OCP’s statements that any oil based product with aphids on the label would work “on a broad range of insects” and “aphids” (as white oil and even home made pest oils do), but that is a false claim and implication by the makers of Eco-Oil.

Here’s the response I received from OCP re Eco-Oil’s failure. It confirms THEY KNOW it doesn’t work on most aphids and even recommended we buy another product by Yates, which conveniently is owned by the same parent company!!!

“Thank you for contacting OCP.

Eco oil is registered for the control of Citrus leaf miner on Citrus trees but unfortunately not for aphids.

It will control some types of aphid on other host plants but not on Citrus.

For the control of aphids and many other pests on your Citrus, you can apply the following product:

'Yates Nature's Way Citrus & Ornamental Spray'. Controls a wide variety on insects pests on many edibles and ornamentals.

https://www.yates.com.au/yates-750ml-natures-way-citrus-ornamental-spray/

It is a registered Organic Garden product distributed by Yates.

OCP/eco organic garden is part of the Dulux group, which Yates is also a part of. Both brands operate separately but do share some behind the scenes resources.”

Based on this response, apparently Eco-Oil will ONLY work on the few species mentioned (except that NO ACTUAL species are mentioned!) on the label, despite the generalised and ambiguous label/company advertising and claims.

THERE IS ZERO MENTION THAT IT WILL NOT WORK ON VIRTUALLY ALL COMMON SAP SUCKING INSECT SPECIES.

How can we trust a company that makes such ambiguous and misleading product claims or recommend it to anyone else?