Chemical Abstracts name

O,O-diethyl O-[6-methyl-2-(1-methylethyl)-4-pyrimidinyl] phosphorothioate

 

Biochemistry Cholinesterase inhibitor.

 

Mode of action Non-systemic insecticide and acaricide with contact, stomach, and respiratory action.

 

Uses Control of sucking and chewing insects and mites on a very wide range of crops, including deciduous fruit trees, citrus fruit, vines, olives, bananas, pineapples, vegetables, potatoes, beet, sugar cane, coffee, cocoa, tea, tobacco, maize, sorghum, alfalfa, flax, cotton, rice, ornamentals, glasshouse crops, forestry, etc., at 300-600 g/ha; soil insects (by soil application); phorid and sciarid flies in mushroom cultivation; flies, lice, mites, fleas, cockroaches, bedbugs, ants, and other insect pests in animal houses and household use. Seed treatment for maize, for control of frit flies and also conferring bird-repellent properties. Also used as a veterinary ectoparasiticide.

 

Phytotoxicity Non-phytotoxic when used as directed. Russetting may occur on green and yellow apple varieties.

 

Compatibility Incompatible with copper-containing compounds.

 

Formulation types 50%EC, 60%EC