Date: 3/30/99

Time: 10:00

Type: Symposium

Number: 117

New agents for pest management in turf

*F. Baxendale, Department of Entomology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0816
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Concerns over recent and anticipated loss of important pesticide products have prompted the agricultural chemical community to seek novel chemistries and optimize existing compounds for control of turfgrass insect pests. Among the products to emerge from these efforts are Bayer's Merit (imidacloprid), Dow AgroScience's Conserve (spinosad), RohMid's Mach 2 (halofenozide), Rhone-Poulenc's Choice (fipronil), Novartis' 293343 (thiamethoxam) and AgrEvo's DeltaGard (deltamethrin). In general, these materials are characterized by improved toxicological and/or environmental properties including lower mammalian, bird, fish and natural enemy toxicities, enhanced efficacy against target pests, increased specificity and reduced application rates. Several of the new products including Conserve, Mach 2, Merit and Novartis 293343 have been classified as "reduced risk pesticides" by the Environmental Protection Agency. IPM practitioners and turfgrass managers can face both practical and philosophical challenges, however, when attempting to integrate these new chemistries into existing IPM programs.

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