Chemically Speaking - July 2006

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Pesticide Registrations and Actions

Agricultural

• On June 2, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) conditionally registered the insect pheromone Checkmate BAW-F® to disrupt mating of the beet armyworm moth on root and tuber vegetables, leafy vegetables, cole crops, fruiting vegetables, cotton, alfalfa, and other crops where the beet armyworm is a pest.  The EPA Reg. No. for the Suterra LLC product is 56336-43.  (PREC Agenda, 7/6/06).
• Dow AgroSciences has voluntarily cancelled the use of spinosad (Spintor®) insecticide on collards and other leafy brassica crops in Georgia as a safeguard against growing diamondback moth resistance to the chemical.  A program to educate growers on preventing resistance has been running for several years, but the problem has not abated, largely due to misuse and overuse of spinosad by a small minority of growers.  (IR-4 email, 6/28/06). 
• On July 6, the FDACS acknowledged that BASF Corporation has added use on citrus and nut trees, carrot, and mint (spearmint and peppermint) to their Prowl® H2O label (EPA Reg. No. 241-418).  (FDACS letter of 7/6/06).