Product Introduction

Fenitrothion is a non-systemic insecticide with contact and stomach action.  Uses Control of chewing, sucking, and boring insects in cereals, soft fruit, tropical fruit, vines, rice, sugar cane, vegetables, turf, and forestry. Also used as a public health insecticide for control of household insects (flies, cockroaches, and other insects) by application to breeding sites; for control of flies in animal houses; for control of stored product insect pests; for control of mosquito larvae (as a vector control agent for malaria); and for control of locusts.

Mode of action

Active by contact and ingestion for insects. Acts on the insects nervous system. Has some ovicidal activity.

A group 1B, organophosphate, acetylcholine esterase inhibitor.

Non systemic.

Rapid death.

Target crops

Rice, cotton, pear, peach, peans, fruit tree, tea, vegetables

Target pests

Chilo suppressalis, big borer, rice leaf roller, rice bud early, rice leafhopper, rice planthopper, rice thrips, cotton aphid, cotton bollworm, red bollworm, blind bug, cotton thrips, Spodoptera litura, armyworm, sweet potato elephant beetles, tea inchworm, pear cardiner, peach cardin

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