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EPN is an insectide and an acaricide effective against orchard pests, including apple flea weevil, plum curculio, and codling moth and for some soil insects. It is also good to use against the following pests: rice stem borer, boll weevils, oriental fruit moth, fruit moths, codling moths, cotton bollworms, peachtree borers, pear psylla, aphids ...
Icerya purchasi (common name: cottony cushion scale) is a scale insect that feeds on more than 80 families of woody plants, [1] most notably on Citrus and Pittosporum. Originally described in 1878 from specimens collected in New Zealand as pests of kangaroo acacia and named by W.M. Maskell "after the Rev. Dr. Purchas who, [he] believe[d], first ...
Imidacloprid is one of the most widely used insecticide in the world. [4] [5] [6] Its major uses include: Seed treatment – Imidacloprid is a popular seed treatment insecticide in the world [8] Agriculture – Control of aphids, cane beetles, thrips, [16] stink bugs, locusts, and a variety of other insects that damage crops
The San Jose scale or China scale, (Comstockaspis perniciosus), is a hemipterous insect in the family Diaspididae. [1] It is an agricultural pest as it causes damage and crop losses to many fruit crops. In 1914, this species became the first documented case of insecticide resistance. [2] [3] [4]
BPUs accounted for 3% of the $ 18.4 billion world insecticide market in 2018. [3] Lufenuron, was the largest selling BPU in 2016, selling for $ 112 million. [4] BPUs are active against many types of insect pests, (e.g. lepidoptera coleoptera, diptera) in agriculture, [1] [5] as well as being used against termites and animal health pests such as ...
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More than 100 insect species prey on H. zea, usually feeding on eggs and larvae. [24] The insidious flower bug (Orius insidiosus), a pirate bug, feeds on the eggs of H. zea, thus acting as a biological control agent. [24] Some plants emit a blend of chemicals in response to damage from H. zea, which attract parasitic insects. [25]
Raid is the brand name of a line of insecticide products produced by S. C. Johnson & Son, first launched in 1956. The initial active ingredient was allethrin , the first synthetic pyrethroid . [ 1 ]