Fenvalerate 20% EC
Action:
Non- systemic Insecticide/ Acaricide with Contact & Stomach Action
Mode of Action:
Fenvalerate is a pyrethroid insecticide. It has applications against a wide range of pests. It uses include control of chewing, sucking, and boring insects (particularly Lepidoptera, Diptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, and Coleoptera) in fruit, vines, olives, hops, nuts, vegetables, cucurbits, cotton, oilseed rape, sunflowers, alfalfa, cereals, maize, sorghum, potatoes, beet, peanuts, soya beans, tobacco, sugar cane, ornamentals, forestry, and on non-crop land. Used for control of flying and crawling insects in public health situations and in animal houses. Also used as an animal ectoparasiticide.
Chemical group:
Pyrethroid
Toxicological information:
Acute oral LD50 for rats= 451 mg/kg
Biochemistry:
Act on the nervous system of insects, and disrupt the function of neurons by interaction with the sodium channel.
Uses:
| Crop | Pest | Dose |
| Sugar beet | Prodonia | 1 L/ha |
| Alfalfa | Weevil | 1 L/ha |
| Fruit trees | Rounded spot leaf miner
Pear leaf blister moth |
0.5 L/ 1000 liters water |
