Rgb from Belton, Tx writes
There are flowering plants in the same flower bed as a redbud tree treated systemically with Dominion. After reading about it, I am now concerned about it harming the bees. Should I dig up the plants and put them elsewhere? What is the life of Dominion in the soil? The arborist treated an oak tree and two redbuds systemically. The arborist treating all this wants to treat all my other trees with it, despite the fact that there are flowering crape myrtles and active bees. He told me it is safe. I am now very concerned.
We contacted the manufacturer of the Dominion 2L to verifiy if our suspicions were correct. The Dominion would harm the bees if the Dominion were applied topically as a foliar spray and they came into direct contact with that surface. A systemic application of the Dominion would not harm the bees as it would only bee absorbed by the types of insects that actually feed on the tree down past a certain level of the trees outer layers. You would not need to transplant any of your plants or flowers as this would not affect the bees or the pollen the plants produce. Please let us know if you have any other questions.
Answer last updated on: 07/11/2013
