Use
Esfenvalerate is a synthetic pyrethroid
Insecticide used to control wide range of pests such as
moths, flies, beetles, and other insects. It is used on
vegetable crops (soya beans, sugar cane), tree fruit, cotton,
maize, sorghum and nut crops, and noncrop lands. It also isused on a wide variety of household pests. It is usually
mixed with a wide variety of other types of pesticides such
as carbamate compounds or organophosphates and has the
naturally occurring compound fenvalerate for use in the
United States Esfenvalerate is almost identical to fenvalerate.
Much of the data for fenvalerate is applicable to the pesticide esfenvalerate (E:0207) because the two compounds contain the same components. The only differences in the two
products are the relative proportions of the four separate constituents (isomers). Esfenvalerate has become the preferred
compound because it requires lower applications rates than
fenvalerate, is less chronically toxic, and is a more powerful
insecticide. A United States Environmental Protection
Agency Restricted Use Pesticide (RUP).
Incompatibilities: Oxidizers (chlorates, nitrates, peroxides,
permanganates, perchlorates, chlorine, bromine, fluorine,
etc.); strong acids. Moisture may cause hydrolysis/
decomposition.