Cypermethrin

Brief Introduction
1. Product name: Cypermethrin
2. Other names: Arrivo, demar, Ammo, Barricade, Basathrin, CCN52, Cymbush, Cymperator, Cynoff, Cypercopal, Cyperguard 25EC, Cyperhard Tech, Cyperkill, Cypermar, Demon, Flectron, Fligene CI, Folcord, Kafil, NRDC 149, Polytrin, PP383, Ripcord, Siperin, Stockade and Super.
3. Formulation: 10% EC
4. CAS No.: 52315-07-8, 86753-92-6

Product Features
As a kind of pyrethroid pesticide, cypermethrin has strong contact and stomach poisoning actions. It also comes with repellent action as well as killing effect to the larva of some lepidopteran pests, featuring remarkable efficacy and fast insecticidal effect. As it is a broad-spectrum insecticide, it also controls the pests which are resistant to organophosphorus pesticides.

Application Objects and Methods
1. For cotton pest management
A. To control the cotton aphid, users should spray 225 to 450mL cypermethrin 10% EC mixed with water for each hectare. 1 or 2-time spraying is advisable before the leaves of cotton seedlings curl.

B. Spraying the agrichemical with the dose of 525 to 750mL mixed with 1000 to 1500kg water for each hectare can kill the cotton bollworm and the pink bollworm. It is better to apply the product during the incubation period. Meanwhile, the solution is also effective to the spiny bollworm, yellow cotton moth, thrips tabaci, etc.

2. For vegetable pests control
A. The cypermethrin can kill the cabbage worm, plutella xylostella, aphid, cabbage webworm, bean-pod borer. Spraying should be adopted as the application method. Each hectare land needs to use 300 to 600mL dose mixed with 750kg water. What’s more, regarding to the boring insects, spraying before the boring is strongly recommended.

B. For destroying the aulacophora femoralis, phyllotreta striolata, heliothis assulta, onion thrips, beet armyworm and the prodenia litura, each hectare land should spray 450 to 750mL dose mixed with 750kg water.

3. Serving as oil bearing crops pesticides
A. The cypermethrin is also efficacious to control the cabbage moth and the cabbage webworm. Each hectare land needs to use 600 to 900kg solution and the spraying should be conducted under the proportion that the amount of water is 2000 to 3000 times more than that of the product.

B. Mixing the dosage of 75 to 675mL with 750 to 1050kg water for spraying one hectare is feasible. This solution can kill the soybean pod borer, bean-pod borer, bean sphingid, inchworm, leaf beetle and the flea beetle.

C. If the aim is to kill the leafhopper or the cotton bollworm of peanuts, users can prepare the solution with the dilution of 1000 to 1500 times. Spraying 600 to 750kg solution is advisable for each hectare.

4. For tobacco insect management
Mixing the water with 75mL cypermethrin per hectare for spraying can control the heliothis assulta and the black cutworm.

Attentions
1. The pre-harvest interval of cypermethrin is 15 days for the cotton and the apple tree, and the product can be applied 3 times at most for each growing season of cotton.
2. The silkworm, bee, fish and other aquatic organisms are susceptible to the toxicity of this product.
3. During the process of preparing and applying the solution, please wear protective suits, gloves and masks and prevent the direct contact with skin. Meanwhile, smoking, eating and drinking are strictly forbidden.
4. Please completely clean hands, face and the body exposed to the solution with the soap and a large amount of clean water.

Typical Functions
Cypermethrin is a synthetic pyrethroid, and is classified as restricted used pesticides by the EPA due to its toxicity to fish. This insecticide can be used to control many pests, as listed below.