Insecticides: Whats NewWhats Gone

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InsecticidesWhats NewWhats Gone

• Karen Delahaut
• Fresh Market Vegetable Outreach Specialist
• University of Wisconsin

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Why have we lost so many insecticides?

• Look at lifetime exposures
• Eat, drink, breathe, contact
• Not only acute toxicity but also effects on
  reproductive system and whether it causes cancer
• Childrens exposure a priority

RISK Cup
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Diazinon

• Stopped manufacturing in March 2001
• Vegetable uses cancelled include
• Beans (dried)
• Celery
• Cucumbers
• Peas (dried)
• Peppers
• Potatoes
• Radicchio
• Squash
• Swish chard
• Turnips

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Guthionazinphos-methyl

• Controlled beetles, flea beetles, leafhoppers,
  plant bugs, thrips, ECB, hornworms, tomato
  fruitworm
• Remaining uses with label changes
• Lettuce
• Peppers
• Kale, Collards, Mustard greens
• Endive
• Spinach
• Swiss Chard
• Turnips

• Cancelled Uses
• Snap beans
• Peas
• Asparagus
• Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower
• Celery
• Cucumbers Melons
• Eggplant
• Onions
• Peppers
• Potatoes
• Tomatoes

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Dimethoate

• Cancelled uses
• Head and leaf lettuce
• Snap beans
• Peas
• Spinach

• Still being assessed because of worker issues
• Asparagus
• Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower
• Celery
• Endive
• Kale, Collards, Mustard Greens
• Melons
• Pepper
• Potato
• Swiss Chard
• Tomato
• Turnips

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Whats New?
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Danitolfenpropathrin

• Synthetic pyrethroid
• Restricted-use
• 24 hour REI
• 3-7 day PHI
• Toxic to fish bees

• Controls
• Aphids
• Cabbage
• Green peach
• ICW, CL, DBM
• Spider mites
• Tomato fruitworm
• Labeled for
• Cole crops
• Cucurbits
• Tomatoes

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Mustang Maxzeta-cypermethrin

• Synthetic pyrethroid
• Restricted-use
• 12 hour REI
• 1-7 day PHI
• Controls
• Aphids
• Armyworms
• CEW
• CPB
• CRW
• Cutworms
• ECB
• Fleabeetles
• ICW, CL, DBM
• Leafminers
• Loopers
• Adult maggots
• Thrips

• Labeled for
• Alliums
• Bean
• Beet
• Celery
• Cole crops
• Eggplant
• Leafy greens
• Peas
• Peppers
• Spinach
• Sweet corn
• Tomato
• Tomatillo

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Leveragecyfluthrin imidacloprid

• Synthetic pyrethroid chloronicotinyl
• Restricted-use
• 12 hour REI
• 7 day PHI
• Labeled for potato onlycontrols
• Aphids
• CPB
• ECB
• Flea beetles
• Leafhopper
• Tarnished plantbug

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Gauchoimidacloprid

• Chloronicotinyl
• General use
• Seed treatment
• Systemic with long activity
• 12 hour REI

• Labeled for
• Beans
• Sweet Corn
• Controls
• Aphids
• Bean leaf beetle
• Seed corn maggot
• Wireworm
• Does not work on caterpillars

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Actara, Platinumthiamethoxam

• Neonicotynl
• General use
• 120 day plantback restriction for crops not on
  the label
• 12 hour REI
• 0-30 day PHI
• Labeled for
• Cucurbits
• Eggplant
• Pepper
• Potato
• Tomato

• Controls
• Aphids
• Flea beetles
• PLH
• Stinkbugs
• CPB

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Intrepidmethoxyfenozide

• Diacylhydrazine
• General use
• 4 hour REI
• 1-3 day PHI
• Controls
• Armyworms
• ICW, CL, DBM
• Cutworms
• ECB
• Fruitworms
• Hornworms
• Loopers

• Labeled for
• Cole Crops
• Eggplant
• Lettuce
• Pepper
• Potato
• Tomato
• Sweet corn

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Fulfillpymetrozine

• Feeding disruptor
• General use
• 12 hour REI
• 14 day PHI
• Labeled for
• Cucurbits
• Eggplant
• Pepper
• Potato
• Controls
• Bean cabbage, corn leaf, green peach,
• melon, potato aphids

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SpinTor Entrustspinosad

• Biological
• General use
• 4 hour REI
• 1-3 day PHI
• Controls
• Caterpillars
• ECB
• Leafminers
• Loopers
• Some leaf beetles
• Thrips

• Labeled for
• Bean
• Beet
• Carrot
• Celery
• Cole Crops
• Cucurbits
• Eggplant
• Leafy Greens
• Peas
• Pepper
• Potato
• Radish
• Tomato
• Sweet Corn

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Confirmtebufenozide

• Insect growth regulator
• General use
• 4 hour REI
• 7 day PHI
• Labeled for
• Cole crops
• Eggplant
• Lettuce
• Tomato

• Controls
• ICW, CL, DBM
• Cutworms
• ECB
• Fruitworm
• Hornworm
• Loopers

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Agri-Mekabamectin

• Antibiotic
• Restricted-use
• 12 hour REI
• 7 day PHI
• Labeled for
• Cucurbits
• Tomato

• Controls spider mites

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Proclaimemamectin benzoate

• Antibiotic
• Restricted-use
• 48 hour REI
• 7 day PHI
• Labeled for
• Celery
• Cole Crops
• Lettuce

• Controls
• Armyworms
• ICW, CL, DBM
• Loopers

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Avauntindoxacarb

• Sodium channel blocker
• General use
• 12 hour REI
• 3 day PHI
• Labeled for
• Cole crops
• Eggplant
• Lettuce
• Pepper
• Potato
• Tomato

• Controls
• ICW, CL, DBM
• ECB
• Fruitworm
• Hornworm
• Loopers

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Whats Changed?
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Sevincarbaryl

• Can only be used on crops that will be harvested
  mechanically beets, cole crops, sweet corn,
  tomatoes
• EPA is proposing a
• 2 day REI for tomatoes, peppers, eggplant
• 3 day REI for sweet corn
• 4 day REI for beets, carrots, onions, potatoes,
  sweet potatoes, turnips
• 5 day REI for cole crops