4. ACTIVE INGREDIENTS: THIODICARB 375g/L or 800g/kg
5. COST: $31.51 per L or kg.
6. CHEMICAL GROUP: 1A.
7. RELATED PESTICIDES:
CARBARYL 500g/L
CARBARYL 800g/kg
Methiocarb 20g/kg
Methiocarb 750g/kg
METHOMYL 225g/L
PIRIMICARB 500g/kg
THIODICARB 375g/L or 800g/kg
8. GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
A contact or ingested broad spectrum insecticide. Rates in HerbiGuide are for the 375g/kg formulations. Multiply rates by 1.07 for 350g/kg forms and by 0.47 for 800g/kg forms.
9. APPLICATION METHODS AND TIPS:
Thorough coverage in essential. Spray in the evening when bees are not foraging.
Compatible with most other pesticides.
Incompatible with spraying oils, some emulsifiable concentrates and alkaline solutions such as Bordeaux mixture or lime sprays.
10. ADJUVANTS, WETTERS, OILS:
11. EQUIPMENT:
Must achieve a droplet density of at least 60 droplets per square centimetre.
12. SPRAYER WASH OUT AND DECONTAMINATION:
13. WATER OR CARRIER DATA:
Use only with water that has a pH of 3-8.5.
Use mixed spray solution within 6 hours.
Ground sprayers: 50 L water/ha minimum.
Aerial: 20 L water/ha for most crops, 30 L/ha for cotton, 50 L water/ha for maize.
14. WEATHER:
15. RAINFASTNESS:
3 hours
16. SOIL:
17. PLANT HEALTH and OTHER EFFECTS:
Sorghum and Milo damaged.
Apples, carnations and zinnias injured.
Cotton injured if applied when wet.
18. WITHHOLDING PERIODS:
Brassicas: Cutting and grazing - 21 days.
Brassicas: Harvest - 7 days.
Cotton: Cutting and grazing - 21 days.
Cotton: Harvest - 21 days.
Maize: Cutting and grazing - 7 days.
Maize: Harvest - 7 days.
Pulses (dried): Cutting and grazing - 21 days.
Pulses (dried): Harvest - 21 days.
Sweetcorn: Cutting and grazing - 21 days.
Sweetcorn: Harvest - 7 days.
Tobacco: Cutting and grazing - 21 days.
Tobacco: Harvest - Not required when used as directed.
Tomatoes: Cutting and grazing - 21 days.
Tomatoes: Harvest - 1 day.
All Crops (except maize): Cutting and grazing - 21 days.
Brassicas: Cutting and grazing - 21 days.
Brassicas: Harvest - 7 days.
Cotton: Cutting and grazing - 21 days.
Cotton: Harvest - 21 days.
Maize: Cutting and grazing - 7 days.
Maize: Harvest - 7 days.
Pulses (dried): Cutting and grazing - 21 days.
Pulses (dried): Harvest - 21 days.
Sweetcorn: Cutting and grazing - 21 days.
Sweetcorn: Harvest - 7 days.
Tobacco: Cutting and grazing - 21 days.
Tobacco: Harvest - Not required when used as directed.
Tomatoes: Cutting and grazing - 21 days.
Tomatoes: Harvest - 1 day.
All Crops (except maize): Cutting and grazing - 21 days.
19. PLANT BACK PERIODS or RECROPPING INTERVALS:
20. MODE OF ACTION:
Active by contact and ingestion for insects. Acts on the insects nervous system.
Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.
21. PESTICIDE RESISTANCE:
22. TOXICITY:
Poison schedule - S6
Mammalian toxicity - Moderately toxic.
Acute oral LD50 - mg/kg
Acute dermal LD50 - mg/kg
Vapour inhalation - LD50 mg/L
Skin - irritating.
Eye - irritating
Main exposure routes - Handling concentrate. Air blast application. Other application methods.
Birds -toxic. LD50 is mg/kg.
Fish - toxic. LC50 is ppm.
Invertebrates - toxic. LC50 is ppm.
Bees - Highly toxic initially but safe once spray has dried.
Summary:
Details:
Poison schedule - S
Mammalian toxicity -
Acute oral LD50 - mg/kg (rats), [For comparison table salt is 3000 mg/kg]
Acute dermal LD50 - > mg/kg (rabbit).
Skin -
Eye -
Vapour inhalation - LC50 - > mg/L air (rat).
Chronic oral toxicity NOEL - ppm for two years.
Not mutagenic or teratogenic (i.e. does not cause cancer or reproductive problems).
Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) -
23. TOXICITY SYMPTOMS:
Initial symptoms include headache, nausea, lack of appetite and fatigue during exposure or several hours later. Dizziness, vomiting, stomach pains, contracted pupils, muscle weakness, twitching, tremor, slow heart beat, blurred vision and sweating may occur with higher exposure levels.
Continual low level exposure may cause influenza like symptoms.
24. FIRST AID:
Contact a doctor or poison information centre on 008 119 244.
Give atropine (0.6mg) tablets every quarter hour then every half hour until signs of flushed face, dilated pupils, dry mouth and fast pulse appear. Medical attention must be sought after taking atropine.
Remove contaminated clothing and wash skin.
If breathing has stopped apply resuscitation
Poisoning usually occurs through skin absorption. Effects are cumulative and dangerous levels may develop before symptoms become noticeable. If you are exposed to organophosphate for more than 30 hours per month then levels of acetylcholinesterase enzyme should be regularly checked. If levels drop below 60% of normal then work with organophosphates should stop until levels improve. This may take several weeks.
25. PROTECTIVE CLOTHING:
26 RE ENTRY PERIODS and OTHER SAFETY ISSUES:
1 day.
27. PROPERTIES:
Product appearance -
Shelf Life -
Product Flammability -
Half life in water - days at pH5 and 35 C.
Water solubility at 25 C. - ppm at pH
Oil solubility -
Octanol:Water ratio at 25 C. - at pH 5.
Vapour Pressure at 25 C. -
Dissociation constant - pKa.
Melting point - C.
Boiling point -
Molecular weight -
Density -
Use mixed spray solution within 6 hours.
28. ENVIRONMENTAL FATE:
Summary -
Birds - toxicity.
Fish - toxicity LC50 > ppm.
Invertebrates - toxicity.
Bees - High toxicity. Dangersous to bees but safe to bees once the droplets have dried on the foliage.
Safe to most beneficial insects.
It has a half life in soil of .
It has an EPA classification for soil mobility that ranges from
Ground water contamination
Accumulation in milk and tissues.
29. COMPATIBILITY:
See HerbiGuide for compatability with other herbicides, insecticides and fungicides.
See HerbiGuide for a full list of pesticide compatibilities.
Compatible with most EC formulations of profenofos.
Compatible with chlorfenapyr, demton-s-methyl, indoxacarb, mepiquat, monocrotophos.
Not compatible with manganese, zinc, copper and copper based products.
May not be compatible with spray oils or oil based sprays.
30. REGISTERED CROPS, INSECTS and DISEASES.
See Herbiguide Species Solutions Tab for registered uses.