Fenthion
Action/Use:
- Insecticide
Use:
For fruit flies, mosquitoes, stem borers, Eurygaster cereal bugs, and other insects in fruit, grapes, olives, vegetables, cotton, tea, sugarcane, rice, etc.
Identification
Common Name(s): Fenthion (ISO, BSI, ESA, BAN); ; MPP (JMAF)
Chemistry
Class: Organophosphate.
Properties: Colorless oily liquid. Specific gravity 1.25 at 20°C. Melting point 7.5°C. Boiling point 87°C at 1.4 Pa. Vapor pressure 0.37 mPa at 20°C. Very readily soluble in dichloromethane, toluene. Readily soluble in 2-propanol. Soluble in n-hexane.
Mode of Action / Resistance Management
Chemical Group: Organophosphate
Mode of Action: Acetylcholine esterase inhibitor
Action Group: IRAC Group 1
Registration
U.S.A.: Registered for use on mosquitoes.
Environmental Guidelines
Water Solubility: 4.2 mg/l at 20° C
Safety Guidelines
Signal Word: WARNING (U.S. Products Baytex*)
Toxicity Class: II
Suppliers and Branded Products
Basic Producers:
AgroDragon Co., Ltd. (Agrothion*)
Bayer CropScience (Baycid*, Baytex*, Lebaycid*, Queletox*)
Hubei Sanonda Co., Ltd. (Faster*)
Pilar AgriScience (Canada) Corp. (Pilartex*)
Formulators' Trade Names:
Agro Chemicals Industries Ltd. (ACI) (Acitex*)
Chema Industries (Medthion*)
Hektas Ticaret T.A.S. (Prestij*)
Insecticidas Internacionales, C.A. (Attilan*)
Koruma Tarim A.S. (Korfen*)
Kuang Hwa Chemical Co., Ltd. (Libersan*)
SAFA TARIM A.S. (Fentex*)
B.V. Industrie- & Handelsonderneming Simonis (Wopro-fenthion*)
