Features of Imidacloprid
1. Imidacloprid is an efficient, systemic, and broad-spectrum insecticide. It has stomach poisoning, contact killing, and antifeedant effects. It effectively controls pests resistant to organophosphates, carbamates, and pyrethroids. It works well against piercing-sucking pests like aphids, leafhoppers, planthoppers, thrips, and whiteflies.
2. It can easily cause resistance in pests. Due to its single action site, pests can develop resistance. Users should limit the number of applications, prohibiting consecutive use on the same crop. If field control effectiveness decreases, it’s important to switch to organophosphate or other types of insecticides.
3. It has good fast-acting effects, showing significant efficacy one day after application, with a residual period lasting about 25 days. One application can protect some crops from pest damage throughout the entire growing season.
4. The effectiveness correlates positively with temperature; higher temperatures yield better insecticidal effects.
5. Imidacloprid is not only used for foliar spraying but is also suitable for root irrigation, soil treatment, and seed treatment. This is due to its stomach toxicity and contact action. While foliar spraying is effective and long-lasting, the residue on stems and leaves remains as the original imidacloprid structure. When treating soil or seeds with imidacloprid, the good systemic absorption allows the plant roots to take up the metabolite, which has higher insecticidal activity. This results in combined insecticidal action from both the original compound and its metabolites, providing superior control. Imidacloprid can also be mixed with fungicides when used for seed treatment.
Product Details of Imidacloprid
| Product name | Imidacloprid |
| Tech grade | 98%TC |
| Formulation | 20%SL,70%WP,70%WDG,60%FS |
| Molecular formula | C9h10cln5o2 |
| CAS No. | 138261-41-3 |
| EINECS No. | / |
| Shelf life | 2 Years |
Application
1. Application Range: Imidacloprid is suitable for vegetables, potatoes, cereal crops, corn, rice, sugar beets, cotton, citrus, and deciduous fruit trees.
2. Target Pests: Imidacloprid cannot be used to control nematodes and mites. It is primarily used to control piercing-sucking pests and their resistant strains, such as aphids, thrips, whiteflies, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and their resistant strains. It also shows good efficacy against some pests from the orders Coleoptera, Diptera, and Lepidoptera, such as leaf miners, leaf-mining moths, yellow-striped flea beetles, and pests from the genus Drosophila.
Due to its excellent systemic properties, Imidacloprid is particularly suitable for seed treatment and granular application. It can provide early and sustained pest control on cereal crops, corn, rice, potatoes, sugar beets, and cotton. For the aforementioned crops, as well as citrus, deciduous fruit trees, and vegetables, foliar spraying can control pests in the later growth stages. Foliar spraying is highly effective against black-tailed leafhoppers, planthoppers (such as brown planthoppers, gray planthoppers, and white-backed planthoppers), aphids (such as peach aphids and cotton aphids), and thrips (such as greenhouse thrips). It also provides control against whiteflies, rice stem borers, rice water weevils, and rice weevils, outperforming thiamethoxam, emamectin benzoate, imidacloprid, and chlorantraniliprole. Additionally, it can be used as a sanitary insecticide and termiticide.
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