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As a landscape superintendent, you have no doubt utilized a number of effective non-chemical methods to rid your grounds of pests. However, when spraying insecticides is the only option, make sure you are utilizing Integrated Pest Management (IPM) guidelines.
To get the best results both aesthetically and economically, use only targeted chemicals for your situation, be certain to properly time pesticide application to the vulnerable stage of the pest, and use biorational pesticides that conserve beneficial insects and minimize plant damage. This process relies not only insect identification and knowledge of the pest insect?EUR??,,????'?????<
To help you do that, below are a number of insecticides currently on the market, listed by toxicity not only with their scientific names, but also with the brand or trade names that might be more familiar. Each of the bug images is marked with corresponding letters for the different insecticides that kill it.
Trade Or Other Names: Bay S276, Disyston, Disystox, Dithiodemeton, Dithiosystox, Frumin AL, Solvigram, and Solvirex. Regulatory Status: Restricted Use Pesticide (RUP) Toxicity: Class I ?EUR??,,????'?????< Label: ?EUR??,,????'?????< Description: A selective, systemic organophosphate insecticide and acaricide that is especially effective against sucking insects and used on ornamentals. Used to Kill: Aphids, leafhoppers, thrips, beet flies, spider mites, and coffeeleaf miners.
Trade Or Other Names: Adios, Bugmaster, Carbamec, Carbamine, Crunch, Denapon, Dicarbam, Hexavin, Karbaspray, Nac, Rayvon, Septene, Sevin, Tercyl, Torndao, Thinsec, Tricarnam, and Union Carbide 7744. Regulatory Status: A General Use Pesticide (GUP). Toxicity: Class I through Class III depending on product formulation. Label: ?EUR??,,????'?????< Description: A wide-spectrum carbamate insecticide used in forests, lawns, ornamentals, shade trees, and other crops. It is also used as a molluscicide and an acaricide. Carbaryl works whether it is ingested into the stomach of the pest or absorbed through direct contact. It is available as bait, dusts, wettable powders, granules, dispersions and suspensions. Used to Kill: Adelgids, caterpillars, galls, beetles, leafminer, leaf sucking bugs, sawflies, and scales.
Trade Or Other Names: Butoflin, Butoss, Butox, Cislin, Crackdown, Cresus, Decis, Decis-Prime, K-Othrin, and K-Otek (1, 83, 86, 61, 20). Regulatory Status: General Use Pesticide (GUP). Toxicity: Class II ?EUR??,,????'?????< Label: ?EUR??,,????'?????< Description: Kills insects on contact and through digestion. Formulations include emulsifiable concentrates, wettable powders, ULV and flowable formulations and granules. With no known incompatibilities with other common insecticides and fungicides, Deltamethrin is a synthetic insecticide based structurally on natural pyrethrins. It rapidly paralyzes the insect nervous system giving a quick knockdown effect when poisoning lasts more than a few hours. It has very broad spectrum control and is considered the most powerful of the synthetic pyrethroids. It is up to three orders more active than some pyrethroids. Used to Kill: Caterpillars on brassicas, aphids, winter moths, codling and tortrix moths, aphids, adelgids, beetles, galls, leafminers, sawflies, tree sucking bugs, mealy bugs, spider mites, weevils, and scales.
Trade Or Other Names: Dimilin, DU112307, ENT-29054, Micromite, and OMS-1804. Regulatory Status: Restricted Use Pesticides (RUP) Toxicity: Class III ?EUR??,,????'?????< Label: ?EUR??,,????'?????< Description: A benzoylphenyl urea, it is used on forest and field crops to selectively control insects and parasites. Diflubenzuron is a stomach and contact poison. It acts by inhibiting the production of chitin, a compound that makes the outer covering of the insect hard and thus interferes with the formation of the insect?EUR??,,????'?????< Used to Kill: Gypsy moths, forest tent caterpillers, several evergreen eating moths, and boll weevils.
Trade Or Other Names: Apistan, Klartan, Mavrik, Mavrik Aqua Flow, Spur, Taufluvalinate, and Yardex. Regulatory Status: Restricted Use Pesticide (RUP). Toxicity: Class II ?EUR??,,????'?????< Label: ?EUR??,,????'?????< Description: A synthetic pyrethroid, it is used as a broad spectrum insecticide used on turf and ornamental insects. It is available in emulsifiable concentrates, suspensions and flowable formulations. Used to Kill: Moths, leafminers, beetles and other insect pests
Trade Or Other Names: Admire, Condifor, Gaucho, Premier, Premise, Provado, and Marathon. Regulatory Status: General Use Pesticide (GUP). Toxicity: Class II ?EUR??,,????'?????< Label: ?EUR??,,????'?????< Description: A systemic, chloro-nicotinyl insecticide with soil, seed and foliar uses. It is most commonly used on turf, and is especially systemic when used as a seed or soil treatment. The chemical works by interfering with the transmission of stimuli in the insect nervous system. Specifically, it causes a blockage in a type of neuronal pathway (nicotinergic) that is more abundant in insects than in warm-blooded animals (making the chemical selectively more toxic to insects than warm-blooded animals). This blockage leads to the accumulation of acetylcholine, an important neurotransmitter, resulting in the insect?EUR??,,????'?????< Used to Kill: Galls, leafminors, sawflies, scales, leaf sucking bugs, rice hoppers, weevils, aphids, adelgids, thrips, whiteflies, termites, turf insects, soil insects, and beetles
Trade and Other Names: Ambush, BW-21-Z, Cellutec, Dragnet, Ectiban, Eksmin, Exmin, FMC 33297, Indothrin, Kafil, Kestrel, NRDC 143, Pounce, PP 557, Pramex, Qamlin, and Torpedo. Regulatory Status: Restricted Use Pesticide (RUP). Toxicity: Class II ?EUR??,,????'?????< Label: ?EUR??,,????'?????< Description: A broad-spectrum synthetic pyrethroid insecticide, it is used against a variety of pests, on ornamental crops. It is used in greenhouses and gardens. It may cause a mite buildup by reducing mite predator populations. Permethrin is available in dusts, emulsifiable concentrates, smokes, ULV (ultra-low volume), and wettable powder formulations. Used to Kill: Aphids, termites, beetles, caterpillars, moths, leafminers, leaf sucking bugs, sawflies, scales, weevils, animal ectoparasites, biting flies, and cockroaches.
Trade Or Other Names: DowAgros?EUR??,,????'?????< Regulatory Status: General Use Pesticide (GUP). Toxicity: Class III ?EUR??,,????'?????< Label: ?EUR??,,????'?????< Description: The first novel fermentation-derived compound was formulated in 1988. has since been formulated into insecticides that combine the efficacy of a synthetic insecticide with the benfiits of a biological pest control organism. Spinosad kills susceptible species by causing rapid excitation of the insect nervous system. Due to this unique mode of action, Spinosad is valued in resistance management programs. Spinosad must be ingested by the insect, therefore it has little effect on sucking insects and non-target predatory insects. Spinosad is relatively fast acting. The insect dies within 1 to 2 days after ingesting the active ingredient and there appears to be no recovery. Its soil absorption is moderately strong and it degrades rapidly in the environment primarily through photolysis. Used to Kill: Fruit flies, caterpillars, leafminers, thrips, sawflies, and leaf beetles. Spinosad does not significantly effect beneficial organisms including ladybugs, green lacewings, minute pirate bugs, sawflies, and predatory mites.
Trade Or Other Names: Avermectin B1a, Affirm, Agri-Mek, Avermectin, Avid, * MK 936, Vertimec, and Zephyr. Regulatory Status: General Use Pesticide (GUP). Toxicity: Class IV – practically nontoxic. Label: N/A Description: A mixture of avermectins containing B1a and B1b, each with very similar biological and toxicological properties. The avermectins are insecticidal/miticidal compounds derived from the soil bacterium Streptomyces avermitilis. Abamectin is a natural fermentation product of this bacterium. It acts as an insecticide by affecting the nervous system of and paralyzing insects. Used to Kill: Spider mites and fire ants.
Trade Or Other Names: Comply, Insegar, Logic, Pictyl, Torus, and Varikill. Regulatory Status: General Use Pesticide (GUP). Toxicity: Class IV ?EUR??,,????'?????< Label: ?EUR??,,????'?????< Description: A non-neurotoxic carbamate insect growth regulator used to control a wide variety of insect pests. Fenoxycarb blocks the ability of an insect to change into the adult stage from the the juvenile stage (metamorphosis). It also interferes with larval molting, the periodic shedding or molting of the old exoskeleton and production of a new, larger one. Used to Kill: Fire ants, fleas, aphids, mosquitos, cockroaches, butterflies, moths, beetles, and leaf sucking insects.
Raleigh, North Carolina
Francisco Uviña, University of New Mexico
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Ash Nochian, Ph.D. Landscape Architect
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