Chemical Name: IMIDACLOPRID
Formula: C9H10ClN5O2
Molecular weight: 255.7
C A S Number: [138261-41-3]
Appearance: Colorless crystal
Specification: 95% Tech 70% WS 70% WP
Use: It is used to control sucking insects such as rice-, leaf- and plant hoppers, aphids, thrips and whitefly. It is also effective against soil insects, termites and some species of biting insects, such as rice water weevil and Colorado beetle but has no effect on nematodes or spider mites. It can be used as seed dressing, as soil treatment and as foliar treatment in different crops including rice, cotton, cereals, maize, sugar beet, potatoes, vegetables, citrus fruit, apples and pears, and stone fruit5. In European countries such as France, UK, and Holland, imidacloprid is widely used as an insecticide in sugar beet crops.