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12/13/2017
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By Janine Acero
Bioresmethrin — toxicity, side effects, diseases and environmental impacts
Bioresmethrin is a potent contact insecticide effective against a wide range of household insects, plant pests, grain pests and insects found in animal housing. It is applied to houses, industrial premises, public health situations and food storage. Technical grade bioresmethrin is a yellow to brown viscous liquid which partially solidifies on standing. It is soluble […]
12/08/2017
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By Janine Acero
Cycloxydim — toxicity, side effects, diseases and environmental impacts
Cycloxydim is a post-emergence cyclohexene oxime herbicide characterized as a colorless and odorless solid in its pure active form. The technical compound is a yellow paste with a moderate aromatic odor. Cycloxydim inhibits the biosynthesis of fatty acids in plants. Cycloxydim has a molecular formula of C17H27NO3S. List of known side effects As per the online chemistry database PubChem, cycloxydim is […]
12/08/2017
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By Janine Acero
Carbofuran — toxicity, side effects, diseases and environmental impacts
Carbofuran is a broad-spectrum carbamate pesticide that kills insects, mites and nematode worms. It is an odorless, white or grayish, crystalline solid, used against soil and foliar pests of field, fruit, vegetable and forest crops. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initiated a ban on all granular formulations of carbofuran in 1994 to protect birds […]
12/07/2017
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By Janine Acero
Carbaryl — toxicity, side effects, diseases and environmental impacts
Carbaryl is a colorless to white or gray, odorless solid, depending on the purity of the compound. It is used as an acaricide (targeting mites and ticks) and plant growth regulator. Carbaryl is a wide-spectrum carbamate insecticide that controls insect pests on citrus fruits, cotton, forests, lawns, nuts, ornamentals, shade trees, and other crops. It is […]
12/07/2017
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By Janine Acero
Cypermethrin — toxicity, side effects, diseases and environmental impacts
Cypermethrin is a pyrethroid insecticide that mainly affects an insect’s central nervous system, used against a number of insect pests such as aphids, weevils, caterpillars, yellow cereal fly, flea beetles, blossom beetles, pod midge and moth pests on wheat, barley, oats, rye, triticale, peas and beans, brassicas, oilseed rape, sugar beets, fodder beet and mangels, potatoes, […]
12/05/2017
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By Janine Acero
Fluopicolide — toxicity, side effects, diseases and environmental impacts
Fluopicolide is a systemic fungicide of the novel chemical class of acylpicolide fungicides and is applied as a foliar treatment to a wide range of crops, including potatoes, vegetables and grape vines. It controls a wide range of Phycomycete (Oomycete) diseases including downy mildews (Plasmopara, Pseudoperonospora, Peronospora, Bremia), late blight (Phytophthora), and some Pythium species. Fluopicolide is the common name for 2,6-dichloro-N-[[3-chloro-5-(trifluoromethyl)-2-pyridinyl]methyl] benzamide. There are […]
12/05/2017
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By Janine Acero
Flutolanil — toxicity, side effects, diseases and environmental impacts
Flutolanil is a systemic fungicide for use specifically against basidiomycetes. It inhibits the hyphal growth and infection cushion formation. It is effective against silver scurf, daylily rust, snow mold, yellow patch (R cerealis), southern blight (Sclerotium rolfsii), red thread (Laetisaria fuciformis), fairy ring, all strains of brown patch (Rhizoctonia solani) and even Asian soybean rust […]
12/05/2017
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By Janine Acero
Fluopyram — toxicity, side effects, diseases and environmental impacts
Fluopyram is a pyridylethylamide broad spectrum fungicide applied as a foliar and seed treatment used to control a range of Ascomycete and Deuteromycete diseases in many horticultural and arable crops. It also has nematicide activity. Fluopyram inhibits spore germination, germ tube elongation, mycelium growth and sporulation. Within plants, fluopyram shows translaminar activity and some movement within […]
12/05/2017
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By Janine Acero
Dinotefuran — toxicity, side effects, diseases and environmental impacts
Dinotefuran is a systemic insecticide of the neonicotinoid class, in the nitroguanidine sub-class. These include other chemicals like nithiazine, imidacloprid, thiacloprid, thiamethoxam, nitenpyram, accetamiprid and clothianidin. Dinotefuran appears as white to off-white powder or crystals and is highly soluble in water. It is a neurotoxin that disrupts the insect’s nervous system function by inhibiting nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. It […]
12/05/2017
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By Janine Acero
Dinocap — toxicity, side effects, diseases and environmental impacts
Dinocap was first registered in the late 1950s and has been used as a contact fungicide to control fungal pathogens like powdery mildew and, to a lesser extent, as a non-systemic acaricide for control of ticks and mites. It is applied as a foliar treatment on fruits, vegetables, nursery, and ornamental crops, and to limit […]
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