ta the thought

, thou pls dont get busted by the chem plods for me as i reckon i got enuff juice for few years now
Yeah. It's just a personal bug bear with me.
Thing is fipronil was a low volume chemical for whomever originally patented it, after it was misused in the USA and caused some mass bee deaths.
(they were aerial spraying crops of canola, and bees would take it back to the nest and kill the nest).
The rights were sold on to several different chemical companies and it got shuffled around the market until a few years ago when it's patent ran out.
Here in Australia chemical registration costs a shotload for each use and it seemed like each time it was nearly through trials for use as a wasp bait it got sold and the trials were dumped.
It got as close as being prepped in tins mixed with meat (looked like little tins of dog food) at one stage - roughly 1998-2000. And then it was sold on again.
It'd be the perfect solution to euro wasps, but the numbers don't add up to get it registered, because there won't be 1000's of litres of chemical sold that way. Although the apvma will issue a clearance to use it for euro wasps - who the f will go to the trouble for each job?
King Island (off tassie) is euro wasp free after the tas dpi got clearance for a mass baiting program there and wiped them out.
Guys from the dpi would go to viticulture field days and give demos in tas. "Now this is off label chemical use, and you shouldn't do it. And this is how you do it, step by step. Nod, nod, wink, wink"
If Matty1 comes along he might add some more to the story, as he might remember more of the details - I'm just happy it works.