Lack of insecticide protection of corn from year to year costs farmers a significant share of the crop, remind experts UKRAVIT: because only generalized data, pests can cause loss of up to 20-30% of the crop, which can significantly hit the wallet of the farmer. This was reported by the company’s press service.
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – July 26, 2021 – Agriculture
“According to our technical support managers from different regions, the stem (corn) butterfly is currently in flight, laying eggs, regenerating and feeding on inhabited planets, and in the southern region’s crops are additionally damaged by cotton moth caterpillars; in addition, aphids grow and damage corn everywhere, says Oleksandr Myhlovets, head of the UKRAVIT agronomic department. – In addition to direct physical damage, these and other pests can harm the crop and indirectly: they are carriers of viral diseases, and in the places of damage can develop diseases, including fusarium wilt. In the absence of control measures, all this in the complex can negatively affect both quantitative and qualitative indicators of the future level of harvest.
To protect corn crops from stem (corn) butterfly, cotton moth, and other common pests, Alexander recommends the use of highly effective insecticides:
📌Venon (clothianidin, 200 g / l + alpha-cypermethrin, 100 g / l);
📌 Hummingbird (thiacloprid, 280 g / l + novaluron, 120 g / l).
Due to the combination of active substances from different chemical groups, Venon provides high efficiency against a wide range of sucking and leaf-eating pests of corn, including those resistant to pyrethroids, and at the same time does not cause resistance in them. Clothianidin is the insecticide that blocks postsynaptic cholinergic receptors, causing overexcitation of nerve cells, resulting in paralysis of the pest, and he dies. Alpha-cypermethrin blocks the exchange of sodium and potassium ions in the presynaptic membrane, ie disrupts the permeability of cell membranes, and acts as an inhibitor of sodium channels. Excessive release of acetylcholine occurs during the passage of nerve impulses through the synaptic chain, and the pest dies due to strong nervous overexcitation.
Venon provides a quick “knockout effect” and at the same time – guarantees a long period of protective action. And due to the systemic action, it protects even the untreated young leaves of plants.
The innovative combination of active ingredients of the insecticide Colibris ensures the destruction of pests at all stages of development and prevents the risk of resistance. Thiacloprid acts on nicotine-acetylcholine receptors of pests, which leads to a violation of their nerve impulse transmission; this provides a rapid “knockout effect” (convulsions and paralysis), resulting in pests die. Novaluron disrupts the biochemical processes of the formation of chitin – a component of the cuticle of pests, which makes it impossible for larvae to move from one stage to another and leads to their death.
The hummingbird controls a wide range of pests from the order Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Homoptera, and Diptera, and provides both a rapid knockout effect and a long period of protective action. It is an effective and reliable solution against populations of pests resistant to pyrethroids and organophosphorus, and at the same time – is safe for beneficial insect species.
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Source: Ukrgate
