Product Introduction

Buprofezin, belonging to an IGR class compound (insect growth regulators). It has contact activity which acts on the nymphal stages of plant hoppers and whiteflies. Mainly used for pest control of rice, fruit trees, tea trees, vegetables and other crops, with persistent larvicidal activity against Sphingidae, some Homoptera and Ticks. It can effectively control leafhoppers and flies on rice, leafhoppers on potatoes, whiteflies on citrus, cotton and vegetables, mealybugs, shieldbugs and mealybugs on citrus.

Mode of action

Buprofezin inhibits chitin formation there by causing abnormal endocuticular deposition & abortive molting. As a result of chitin deficiency the procuticle of the insects loses its elasticity & the insect is unable to complete the molting process which leads to death of insect.

Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) Classification No. 16

Target crops

Rice, Cotton, Chillies, Mango, Grapes 

Target pest

Scale insect, Whiteflies, Aphods, Jassids, Thrips, Yellow mite, Hoppers, Mealy Bug

Application