What are the common insecticides? Introduction to 6 types with prices and effects
In agricultural production, insecticides are indispensable agricultural chemicals. They can effectively prevent orchards and vegetable gardens from being invaded by pests, ensuring high yield and high quality of agricultural products. But there are many kinds of insecticides on the market. Do you know which ones there are? Let's learn below about the types and effects of pesticide insecticides.
1. Abamectin
Price: 10-40 yuan/bottle
Effects: Abamectin is generally used on vegetables, fruit trees, flowers, tobacco, cotton, and grain crops. It is mainly used to control pests such as diamondback moth, beet armyworm, tobacco cutworm, aphids, red spider mites, gall mites, scale insects, thrips, and rice leaf roller. It can interfere with the neurophysiological activity of pests, stimulate the insect body to release gamma-aminobutyric acid, block nerve signal transmission, and cause pests to be quickly paralyzed after being affected, stopping activity and feeding, and dying within 24-48 hours.
2. Imidacloprid
Price: 1-3 yuan/bag
Effects: Imidacloprid is a pyridine insecticide with systemic, stomach poison, contact-killing, antifeedant, and repellent effects. It has a broad insecticidal spectrum, high efficacy, long duration, and low residue. Imidacloprid is generally used on melons, fruits, and vegetables, grain, cotton, and oil crops, sugar beets, tea trees, potatoes, deciduous fruit trees, evergreen fruit trees, and ornamental plants, etc. It has good control effects on pests such as aphids, leafhoppers, whiteflies, planthoppers, thrips, psyllids, and mirid bugs.
3. Beta-cyhalothrin
Price: 15-30 yuan/bottle
Effects: Beta-cyhalothrin mainly has contact-killing and stomach-poison effects, and also has a certain repellent effect. It has a broad insecticidal spectrum, high efficacy, is safe, and has a long duration. It mainly acts on cotton, fruit trees, vegetables, tea trees, dry grain crops, etc., and has good control effects on pests of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Thysanoptera, Hymenoptera, Orthoptera, and Diptera.
4. Emamectin benzoate
Price: 12-20 yuan/bottle
Effects: Emamectin benzoate is a very good insecticide. It has both stomach-poison and contact-killing effects, and its insecticidal effect is very good. At present, our country mainly uses it for pest control on economic crops such as tobacco, tea, and cotton, and on vegetable crops. It has good control effects on cotton bollworm, tobacco hornworm, diamondback moth and armyworm, beet armyworm, dryland fall armyworm, tomato hornworm, Colorado potato beetle, Mexican bean beetle, etc.
5. Bacillus thuringiensis
Price: 28-40 yuan/bottle
Effects: Bacillus thuringiensis shows high toxicity to 64 kinds of forest pests, 34 kinds of fruit tree pests, and 12 kinds of tea tree pests. Its main control targets include imported cabbageworm, diamondback moth, tobacco cutworm, corn borer, rice skipper, rice leaf roller, striped stem borer, yellow stem borer, cotton bollworm, cotton anomis flava, tea tussock moth, tea geometrid, pine caterpillar, tent caterpillar, tussock moth, slug moth, and other pests of Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera, etc.
6. Acetamiprid
Price: 10-20 yuan/bottle
Effects: Acetamiprid is a new type of insecticide with contact-killing, stomach-poison, and relatively strong penetrating effects. It acts quickly, uses a small amount, has high activity, a broad insecticidal spectrum, a duration of about 20 days, and good environmental compatibility, etc. It has very good effects on aphids on vegetables, aphids on fruit trees, aphids on crops such as cotton, tobacco, and peanuts, whitefly, tobacco whitefly, thrips on vegetables, rice planthopper, etc.
The above is an introduction to the prices and effects of various insecticides. Different insecticides have different effects on eliminating pests. In order to effectively ensure that pests are completely eradicated, we must choose suitable chemicals, but note that when using chemicals, their timing, dosage, etc. must be well controlled to avoid phytotoxicity.
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