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How to Manage Pests

UC Pest Management Guidelines

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Cabbage looper moth.

Cotton

Selectivity and Persistence of Key Cotton Insecticides/Miticides

(Reviewed 1/08, updated 1/08)

In this Guideline:
  Persistence to:  
Product (Common Name) Selectivity Pest Natural Enemies Major Target Pests
Acramite (bifenazate) high short short mites
Ammo (cypermethrin) low long moderate loopers, beet armyworm, other caterpillars
Asana (esfenvalerate) low long moderate loopers, beet armyworm, other caterpillars
Assail (acetamiprid) high moderate/long short whiteflies, aphids, lygus****
Bacillus thuringiensis high short short loopers, beet armyworm
Baythroid (cyfluthrin) low long moderate lygus, beet armyworm, looper
Capture, etc. (bifenthrin) low long long lygus***, whiteflies, beet armyworm, looper
Carbine (flonicamid) high moderate short lygus, aphids
Comite (proparite) high moderate short mites**
Centric (thiamethoxam) high moderate short whiteflies, aphids
Courier (buprofezin) high long long whiteflies
Cruiser1 (thiamethoxam) high moderate/long short thrips, mites, lygus
Curacron (prophenofos) moderate short short aphids, beet armyworm, loopers, whiteflies
Danitol (fenpropathrin) low long moderate whiteflies, lygus
Diamond (novaluron) moderate moderate moderate lygus, beet armyworm, loopers
Dibrom (naled) low short short aphids
Dimethoate (dimethoate) moderate short short lygus***, aphids
Dimilin (diflubenzuron) high moderate short beet armyworm, other caterpillars
Fujimite (fenpyroximate) high moderate short mites
Fulfill (pymetrozine) high short short aphids
Gaucho1 (imidacloprid) moderate long moderate aphids, thrips
Gossyplure high moderate none pink bollworm
Intrepid (methoxyfenozide) high moderate moderate beet armyworm, other caterpillars
Kelthane (dicofol) high moderate short mites**
Knack (pyriproxyfen) high long short whiteflies
Lannate (methomyl) low short short loopers, beet armyworm, aphids
Larvin (thiodicarb) moderate moderate moderate beet armyworm, other caterpillars
Leverage (imidacloprid/cyfluthrin) low long moderate lygus, aphids
Lorsban2 (chlorpyrifos) moderate moderate short aphids*, lygus, whiteflies
Lorsban1 (chlorpyrifos) high moderate short seedcorn maggot
Malathion (malathion) low short short grasshoppers
MSR (oxydemeton-methyl) moderate short short lygus***, aphids*
Monitor (methamidophos) moderate short moderate lygus, aphids
Mustang (zetacypermethrin) low long moderate lygus, beet armyworm, looper
Neemix (azadirachtin) moderate short short aphids, whiteflies
Oberon (spiromesifen) high — — mites, whiteflies
Oils low short short aphids, whiteflies
Onager (hexythiazox) high moderate short mites
Orthene2 (acephate) low moderate moderate thrips, lygus, loopers, whiteflies
Orthene1 (acephate) high moderate short thrips, aphids
Provado, etc. (imidacloprid) high moderate short aphids, lygus
Soaps low short short aphids, whiteflies
Steward (indoxacarb) moderate moderate moderate beet armyworm, loopers, lygus****
Success (spinosad) high moderate short beet armyworm, other caterpillars
Sulfur (sulfur) high short short mites
Supracide (methidathion) moderate short short lygus
Temik-at plant (aldicarb) high long moderate mites, aphids, thrips
Temik-sidedress (aldicarb) high long short lygus, aphids, mites
Thimet-at plant (aldicarb) High moderate moderate Mites, aphids, thrips
Thionex, etc. (endosulfan) high moderate short aphids*, whiteflies
Venom (dinotefuran) moderate/high moderate short whiteflies, aphids, plant bugs
Vydate (oxamyl) low moderate moderate whiteflies, lygus
Warrior, etc. (lambda-cyhalothrin) low long moderate lygus, beet armyworm, looper
Zeal (etoxazole) high moderate — mites
Zephyr, etc. (abamectin) high long moderate mites**
1 seed treatment ** resistance in some twospotted and Pacific spider mite populations
2 foliar treatment *** resistance in some lygus bug populations
* resistance in some cotton aphid populations **** suppression

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UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines: Cotton
UC ANR Publication 3444
General Information
Acknowledgements: This table was compiled based on research data and experience of University of California scientists who work on a variety of crops and contribute to the Pest Management Guideline database, and from Flint, M.L. and S.H. Dreistadt. 1998. Natural Enemies Handbook: An Illustrated Guide to Biological Pest Control, ANR Publication 3386.

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