There have been a few insecticide registrations that have come through since previous updates this past winter (summaries from January are available with these links: https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/1/8311/files/2019/02/PAT_Jan2019_1-page-1hvqfhg.pdf and https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/1/8311/files/2019/02/Summary_Jan2019_1-page-22nf965.pdf ).
Torac and Apta from Nichino America both contain tolfenpyrad as the active ingredient; both are in IRAC’s mode-of-action group 21A. Since March 2019, new crops on the new Torac label are onions and other bulb vegetables, lettuce and other leafy vegetables, and celery and other leaf petiole vegetables. Torac controls thrips, aphids, leafhoppers, flea beetles, and some caterpillars. Since February 2019, new crops on supplemental labels for Apta are strawberry and other low growing berries, raspberries and other caneberries, and blueberries and other bushberries. Apta controls thrips, plum curculio, fruitworms, Lygus (tarnished plant bug), and suppresses spotted-wing Drosophila.
Versys is a new insecticide from BASF that contains afidopyropen as the active ingredient, which puts it in IRAC group 9D. On the initial label in October 2018, the target pests were only aphids, as controlled at a low rate of product. A newer label now includes control of whiteflies at a higher rate of product.
Exirel is now allowed on raspberries and other caneberries, as shown on a supplemental label from November 2018. Use on caneberries is with a 1-day pre-harvest interval, for control of spotted-wing Drosophila and adult root weevils. Exirel is from FMC, and contains cyantraniliprole as the active ingredient, in IRAC group 28.
PQZ is a new insecticide product from Nichino America that has been registered since November 2018 but was missed in our earlier updates. PQZ contains pyrifluquinazon as the active ingredient. It is in IRAC group 9B. It controls aphids, whiteflies, and leafhoppers, and is allowed for use on Brassica head and stem vegetables, cucurbits, fruiting vegetables, leaf petiole vegetables, leafy vegetables, tuber and corm vegetables, as well as on pome fruit, stone fruit, and grapes.
Ethos-3D is a new insecticide/fungicide product from FMC that has been registered since 2018 but was missed in our earlier updates. It is for use on sweet corn. It contains bifenthrin (the same AI as in Brigade; IRAC group 3A) as the insecticidal component, and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens as the fungicidal component. It is for application at-planting for control of corn rootworm larvae, Asiatic garden beetle, wireworms, grubs, seedcorn maggot, cutworms, and armyworms.
-Celeste Welty, Extension Entomologist