Product Name  Imidacloprid

 

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

 

Empirical Formula  C₉H₁₀ClN₅O₂

CAS Number  138261-41-3

Molecular Weight   255.7

Formulation     95%TC, 350g/L SC, 70%WS

 

 

Imidacloprid has a wide range of uses – soil, seed and foliar. It is used to control sucking insects such as rice-, leaf- and plant hoppers, aphids, thrips and whitefly. It is also effective against soil insects, termites and some species of biting insects, such as rice water weevil and Colorado beetle but has no effect on nematodes or spider mites. It can be used as seed dressing, as soil treatment and as foliar treatment in different crops including rice, cotton, cereals, maize, sugar beet, potatoes, vegetables, citrus fruit, apples and pears, and stone fruit.