Insecticide/ neonicotinoid
NOMENCLATURE
Common name imidacloprid (BSI, draft E-ISO); Imidaclopride ((m) F-ISO)
IUPAC name 1-(6-chloro-3-pyridylmethyl)-N-nitroimidazolidin-2-ylideneamine
Chemical Abstracts name 1-[(6-chloro-3-pyridinyl)methyl]-N-nitro-2-imidazolidinimine
CAS RN [138261-41-3]

APPLICATIONS
Mode of action
Systemic insecticide with translaminar activity and with contact and stomach action. Readily taken up by the plant and further distributed acropetally, with good root-systemic action.

Uses
Control of sucking insects, including rice-, leaf- and planthoppers, aphids, thrips and whitefly. Also effective against soil insects, termites and some species of biting insects, such as rice water weevil and Colorado beetle. Has no effect on nematodes and spider mites. Used as a seed dressing, as soil treatment and as foliar treatment in different crops, e. G. Rice, cotton, cereals, maize, sugar beet, potatoes, vegetables, citrus fruit, pome fruit and stone fruit. Also used to controls fleas in dogs and cats.

Formulation types DP; FS; GR; SC; SL; WG; WP; WS.

Selected tradenames: 'Confidor' (Bayer); 'Conidor' (Korea) (Bayer); 'Winner' (Brazil) (Bayer); 'Admire' (USA, Japan) (Bayer, Bayer Corp., Nihon Bayer); 'Gaucho' (Bayer, Bayer Corp. );