Agrochemical Pesticide Insecticide Hot sales Imidacloprid 35%SC 350g/l SC 20%SL 200g/l SL 600g/l FS 5%EC

Active ingredient

Imidacloprid

Chemical name

1-[(6-chloro-3-pyridinyl)methyl]-N-nitro-2-imidazolidinimine

Classification

Insecticide / Agrochemical

Formulation

95%Tech, 70%WDG/WP, 50%FS, 35%SC, 20%SL

Biochemistry

Acts as an antagonist by binding to postsynaptic nicotinic receptors in the insect central nervous system.

 Mode of action

Systemic insecticide with translaminar activity and with contact and stomach action. Readily taken up by the plant and further distributed acropetally, with good root-systemic action.

Usage

Control of sucking insects, including rice-, leaf- and planthoppers, aphids, thrips and whitefly. Also effective against soil insects, termites and some species of biting insects, such as rice water weevil and Colorado beetle. Has no effect on nematodes and spider mites. Used as a seed dressing, as soil treatment and as foliar treatment in different crops, e.g. rice, cotton, cereals, maize, sugar beet, potatoes, vegetables, citrus fruit, pome fruit and stone fruit. Applied at 25-100 g/ha for foliar application, and 50-175 g/100 kg seed for most seed treatments, and 350-700 g/100 kg cotton seed. Also used to controls fleas in dogs and cats.

Mammalian Toxicology

Oral Acute oral LD50 for male and female rats c. 450 mg/kg. 

Skin and eye Acute percutaneous LD50 (24 h) for rats >5000 mg/kg. Non-irritating to eyes and skin (rabbits). Not a skin sensitiser. 

Inhalation LC50 (4 h) for rats >5323 mg/m3 dust, 69 mg/m3 air (aerosol).

Certificate of quality

Imidacloprid 70%WP

Item

Appearance

A.I. Content

pH value

Water content

Fineness (through 325 mesh test sieve)

Wetting time

Specification

Off-white loose powder

≥70.0%

6.0-9.0

≤2.0%

≥98.0%

≤60s

Imidacloprid 95% Tech

Item

Appearance

A.I. Content

Loss on drying

Insolubles in dimethyl formamide

Acidity

Specification 

White powder

≥95.0%

≤1.0%

≤0.5%

≤0.5%

Area

Control target

Formulation dose

Application method

PHI

Cotton

Aphids

150-225ml/ha

Spraying

14 days

Paddy

Planthoppers

112.5-150ml/ha

Spraying

14 days

Brassicaceous vegetable

Aphids

90-150g/ha

Spraying

7 days