IDONEO™

Overview

IDONEO is an insecticide from Agritas, built on the Avermectin (Group 6) chemistry. It is used against fall armyworm, bollworm, fruit borer larvae, stem borer, leaf miner, army worm. Registered use on brinjal, cabbage, chili, cotton, maize, okra. Agritas supplies it through the Haryali Markaz network, where the staff know which pests and diseases are moving in your district this week and can tell you whether this is the right product for what you are actually seeing in the field.

Composition

Emamectin benzoate 0.95% + Lufenuron 1.90%, 3% SC

Type

Pesticide · Insecticide

Chemical group

Avermectin (Group 6) + Benzoylurea IGR (Group 15)

Pack size

400 ml, 200 ml

Controls

Recommended crops

Mode of action

Idoneo™ damages the epidermis of the insect, it can affect its nerve conduction. The larvae are paralyzed and stop eating immediately. It destroys egg hatching, valid for 30 days. Its efficient to larvae, it paralyzes pests and thus the pests stop feeding after 20 hours of spraying Idoneo™, pests die after 48-72 hours of spraying.

Dose & application

Targets:
Corn: corn borer, armyworm
Rice: Rice leaf roller, Saponaria japonica, Saponin
Wheat: armyworm, wheat spider
Vegetables: Pieris rapae, Plutella xylostella, Spodoptera exigua, Leafminer, Potato tuber moth, Tomato rust, Thrips
Cotton: Cotton bollworm
Fruit trees: Peach fruit borer, Spodoptera frugiperda, rust, American white moth
Soybean: Soybean meal
Tea tree: tea worm, tea caterpillar, tea leafworm
Flowers: Thrips, Whitefly

Instructions:
20ml add 20-25 water,spray on the leaves.

Why it pays

A pest caught at threshold costs one spray. The same pest left for another fortnight costs three sprays and a share of the crop, because by then it is feeding inside the stem or the boll where nothing reaches it. The value of this product is mostly in the timing, and the timing is free.

Field tips

Cover the underside of the leaf. Most sucking pests sit there, and a spray aimed at the top of the canopy never touches them.

Do not raise the rate because the last spray disappointed. A poor result is far more often bad coverage, the wrong growth stage, or rain within two hours than it is a rate that was too low. Raising the rate mostly builds resistance.

Change chemical group between sprays rather than repeating the same one. A pest sprayed with the same molecule three times in a season is being trained to survive it.

Safety

Wear gloves, a mask and full sleeves. Spray in the cool morning or evening, never into the wind, and wash thoroughly afterwards. Keep children and livestock out of a sprayed field until the spray has dried. Most insecticides kill bees, so do not spray a flowering crop during the day. Never re-use an empty container.