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What is a Kontos?

• Kontos is an exciting new insecticide/miticide
  providing growers, flexible, broad-spectrum
  control of a wide range of Nursery and Greenhouse
  pests.

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What is a Kontos?...Really.

• Kontos was the Greek name for a type of long
  wooden cavalry lance. The kontos was developed in
  the early-mid 1st century AD from shorter
  spear-type weapons.

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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• Active Ingredient Spirotetramat
• Mode of Action Group 23, Tetramic Acids
• REI 0 hr as a drench, 24 hr as foliar
• Signal Word Caution
• Formulation 2 lb per gallon suspension
  concentrate.
• Package 6 x 250mL

Under certain conditions, please consult the
label
Kontos is a trademark of Bayer Corp.
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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• Mode of Action
• Lipid biosynthesis inhibitor
• Active primarily by ingestion
• Does have some contact activity
• Primarily active on immature stages of insects
  and mites.
• Reproduction of adult insects and mites may be
  reduced.
• No known cross resistance

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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• Unique Full Systemic Movement
• Kontos is fully systemic, moving through phloem
  and xylem to all plant tissues including new
  shoot, leaf and root growth

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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• Safe on Many beneficials
• Coccinelids harmless to slightly harmful
• Cecidomyiids harmless
• Anthacorids, Geocorids, etc. harmless
• Aphelinids, Aphidids, Trichogrammatids, etc.
  harmless
• Spiders harmless to slightly harmful
• Chrysopids harmless
• Syrphids harmless
• Phytoseiid mites harmless to moderately
  harmful.

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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• May be used on ornamentals, non-bearing fruit and
  nut trees and vegetable transplants grown in
• Greenhouses
• Container and field nursery
• Interiorscapes

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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• Vegetable Transplants

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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• Application methhods
• Foliar spray
• Including low volume applications
• Soil Drench
• Irrigation
• Including drip, micro, overhead, ebb and flood
• Aerial application

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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• Key pests controlled
• Adelgids
• Aphids
• Leafhoppers
• Mealybugs (Best performance when populations are
  low)
• Psyllids
• Spittlebugs
• Spider Mites (effective prevention of population
  buildup)
• Whiteflies (including Q biotype)

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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• Other pest activity and upcoming label additions
• Thrips
• Trials show good control of Thrips but needs to
  be part of a good rotational program.

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Mean number of Phenacoccus madeirensis mealybugs
per 5 coleus leaves
DAT
Foliar spray rates are per 100 gallons of water
Scott Ludwig, Texas AM 2008
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Mean number of Melon Aphids on Photinia 1 5
weeks after Treatment
Foliar (F) rates are per 100 gallons of water
drench (D) rate is per 500 1-gallon pots
WAT
Jim Bethke, California 2006
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Kontos vs. Bemisia tabaci Whitefly on
Poinsettia Carlos Bogran,Texas AM, 2008
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10
x nymphs / leaf
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6
4
2
0
Water
0.85
1.7
2.5
3.4
1.7
3.4
UTC
Tristar 2.3 oz/100 gal
Kontos spray (fl oz/100 gal)
Kontos drench (fl oz/1000 pots)
Safari 24 oz / 3200 pots
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Western Flower Thrips (6 trials)

• Low initial infestation
• 1.7 oz spray, 75-85 control 7 DAT, 85-100
  control 14 DAT (Flowers) 95-100 control 28 DAT
  (Leaves)
• 1.7 oz drench, 63 control 7 DAT, 96 control 14
  DAT (Flowers) 95-100 control 35 DAT (Leaves)
• High initial infestation
• 1.7 3.4 oz spray, no control 7 DAT, 52-66
  control 14 DAT (Buds Flowers)
• 3.4 oz drench, no control 7 DAT, 86 control 14
  DAT (Buds Flowers)

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Two-spotted Spider Mites (2 Trials)

• High initial infestation
• 1.7 3.4 oz spray, 85 control 6 DAT, 99 13
  20 DAT
• 1.7 3.4 oz drench, 80-85 control 6 DAT, 99 13
  20 DAT
• Low initial infestation
• 1.7 3.4 oz spray 2 apps 14 days apart -
  95-99 control 13-42 DAT1
• 1.7 3.4 oz drench, 95-99 control 13-42 DAT

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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• Application Rates
• Foliar applications 1.7 to 3.4 fl. oz./100 gal.
  or 5 to 8 fl. oz/acre.
• A spray adjuvant with spreading/penetrating
  charecteristics may improve leaf uptake and
  systemic activity of the active ingredient.

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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• Application Rates
• Aerial applications 5 to 8 fl. oz / acre in a
  minimum of 5 GPA.
• Drench applications 1.7 fl oz for herbaceous
  crops. 3.4 fl. oz. for woody crops.
• Drench rates vary depending on container size.
  Please consult the label.

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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• Tank Mixing
• Kontos is physically and biologically compatible
  with most common pesticides and fertilizers.
• In the absence of local knowledge of desired tank
  mix, please contact OHP or consult the label for
  instructions on conducting a compatibility test.
• Tank mixes, including adjuvants, should also be
  tested for plant safety.

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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• Restrictions
• Do not apply more than 25 fl. oz. per acre of
  nursery per season.
• Do not apply more that 5 fl. oz. per acre per
  season to vegetables.
• To reduce run off potential, avoid outdoor
  applications when rainfall is expected in 48
  hours.

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Spirotetramat Tolerance Testing (2008) Florida,
6.8 fl oz 1x 148 Total Cultivars Tested
Host plant Result Host plant Result Host plant Result
Anthurium (2) Clean Epiphyllum Clean Philodendron (5) Clean
Aralia (4) Clean (1)? Fern (9) Clean Pilea (4) Clean
Begonia (4) Clean Ficus (8) Leaf burn (1) Plectranthus Clean
Cactus Clean Fittonia (4) Clean Pothos (4) Clean
Calathea (2) Clean Gunura Clean Pseudanthus Clean
Codonanthe Clean Hemigraphis Clean Raphidophora Clean
Coffee Plant Clean Hoya (8) Leaf spots (3) Rheo discolor Clean
Columnea (5) Clean Hypoestes Clean Rhipsalis (6) Clean
Crassula Clean Ivy (12) Clean Sansaviera Clean
Croton (11) Leaf drop (4) Lipstick (8) Clean Schefflera (2) New leaves
Crown of thorns Clean Maranta (2) Clean Sellaginella Clean
Cryptanthus Clean Muehlenbeckia Clean Siderasis Clean
Cryptocereus Clean Nephythytis (2) Clean Soleirolia Clean
Dieffenbachia (5) Clean Neanth. palm Leaf necrosis Spider Plant (2) Clean
Dischidia (2) Clean Parthenocissus Clean Stromanthe Clean
Dracaena (3) Clean Peperomia (9) Meristems (4) Tradescantia Clean
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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• KONTOS is not recommended for use on the
  following varieties
• geraniums (Pelargonium spp.), orchids, hoya,
  Dracaena, Cordyline, Schefflera, neanthebella
  palm, and ferns.
• Do not make more than one application per season
  to
• Hydrangea, Impatiens spp., crotons (Codieum
  spp.), Fuschia hybrids, Petunia, Peperomia,
  stock, or cyclamens (Cyclamen spp.).
• Extensive phyto screening has been done with
  Kontos, however, it is always a good idea to test
  tank mixes prior to commercial applications.

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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• Application tips
• Apply early in the cropping cycle, prior to heavy
  infestations
• Root system must be present for effective control
  as a drench.
• Applications may benefit from the addition of a
  surfactant.

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Kontos
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Kontos Insecticide/Miticide

• New systemic insecticide from the tetramic acid
  class of chemistry.
• Can be applied as a foliar spray or drench.
• Controls a wide range of sucking insects and
  mites.
• Xylem and Phloem Systemic providing for top to
  bottom plant protection.

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