A Detailed Guide to Using Trichlorfon Insecticide
Trichlorfon is an organophosphate insecticide. It is relatively stable in nature, flammable and toxic, so extra care must be taken when using it. Today, the editor will introduce to you how to use trichlorfon insecticide.
1. Use 8 kg of wheat bran and 0.5 kg of 90% trichlorfon crystals, mix them into a poison bait, and scatter it on the seedbed to trap and kill mole crickets, cutworm larvae, and others.
2. Use a 1000-fold solution of 90% trichlorfon crystals to spray and kill young larvae such as inchworms, hawk moths, tortricid moths, whiteflies, sawflies, meadow moths, large weevils, jasmine leaf borers, leaf miners, tussock moths, slug moths, tiger moths, armyworms, mulberry tussock moths, swallowtail butterflies, and longhorn beetles.
3. Use a 1000-fold solution of 90% trichlorfon crystals to irrigate the roots of flowers and trees, which can control white grubs, noctuid moths, bagworms, and others.
Precautions for using trichlorfon insecticide:
1. It must not be mixed or used at the same time with alkaline drugs, because “trichlorfon” belongs to organophosphate preparations. If it comes into contact with alkaline drugs or alkaline substances, it will increase toxicity, cause livestock poisoning, and may even cause death. Sodium bicarbonate, artificial salt, stomachic powder, sodium salts of various sulfonamide drugs, soft soapy water, hard soapy water, limewater, and others all belong to alkaline drugs and should all be avoided from being mixed or used at the same time with “trichlorfon.” If ordinary water is alkaline hard water, it also cannot be used to prepare trichlorfon solution.
2. The treatment dose must not be exceeded, because the treatment dose of “trichlorfon” is very close to the poisoning dose. A slight carelessness will cause livestock poisoning, or even death, due to an excessive dose. Therefore, to ensure the safety of livestock, first accurately determine their body weight, and then precisely calculate the dosage according to body weight.
3. “Trichlorfon” cannot be used to deworm poultry, because “trichlorfon” belongs to organophosphate preparations, and poultry such as chickens, ducks, and geese are especially sensitive to organophosphate preparations. There are 3 reasons: first, organophosphate preparations can attack the brains of poultry; second, after organophosphate preparations enter the poultry body, they can cause nervous system dysfunction in poultry; third, poultry have a particularly weak hydrolysis effect on organophosphate preparations, that is, their natural detoxification ability against organophosphate preparations is particularly low.