News & Articles By Michelle Simmons
Bifenthrin is an insecticide that belongs to the pyrethroid group used against pests, such as fire ants, blue grass weevil, army worms, cut worms, centipedes, crickets, earwigs, millipedes, sowbugs, mole crickets, ticks, fleas, and grasshoppers. It is usually applied on non-cropped areas, such as lawns, athletic fields, ornamentals, residences, and commercial buildings. It works by […]
Carbosulfan is an insecticide that belongs to the group of carbamate chemical compounds. It is used to control soil dwelling and foliar pests, such as rice stem borer, millipedes, springtails, wireworms, caterpillars, flea beetles, Colorado beetles, codling moth, scale insects and free-living nematodes. It is usually applied on a wide variety of plants, such as […]
Acephate is an insecticide that belongs to the organophosphate group of chemicals. It is typically used as a foliar spray against chewing and sucking insects, such as aphids, leaf miners, Lepidopterous larvae, sawflies, and thrips on fruits, vegetables, potatoes, sugarbeet, vines, rice, hops, ornamentals, and greenhouse crops like peppers and cucumbers. It can also be […]
Chlorotoluron is a contact and residual herbicide that is used to kill broad-leaved weeds and grasses, which include annual meadow grass, black grass, nightshade, bindweed, chickweed, fat hen, marigold, knotgrass, hemp-nettle, dead-nettle, common poppy, and mayweed. It belongs to the group of urea chemicals and can be applied on cereals, such as wheat, barley, rye, […]
Chlorothalonil is a wide spectrum chloronitrile fungicide that is used to control different crop diseases, which include rust, purple spot, leaf blight, anthracnose, downy mildew, ring spot, stalk rot, botrytis rot, pod blight, and stem blight. It can be applied on several crops, such as cereals, asparagus, beans, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, carrot, onions, celery and […]
Dimethoate is an organophosphate insecticide that is used to control a wide variety of pests, such as aphids, thrips, whiteflies, leaf and plant hoppers, fruit flies, jassids, and spidermites. It is applied on apples, pears, citrus fruits, alfalfa, corn, cotton, pecans, safflower, sorghum, soybean, sugarbeet, turnips, beetroot, tobacco, and cereals like wheat, rye and triticale. […]
Coumaphos is an insectide that belongs to the group of organophosphate compounds. It is used to control a wide variety of insects, such as cattle grubs, screw-worms, lice, scabies, flies and ticks. Moreover, it is used to kill ectoparasites, which are insects that live on the outside of host animals, such as sheep, goats, horses, pigs […]
