Insecticides forbidden* period

A forbidden period is also recommended for each systemic insecticide. During this period natural processes of detoxication are going on within the plant. This is different for each plant and depends upon the climate. Broadly speaking, for strawberries in the northern hemisphere during the summer, the recommended interval between spraying and harvesting of strawberries, brussels sprouts, fruit trees and hops is about 5 weeks. 

This text specifies that the use of insecticides and acaricides attacks on all crops and forestry plantations is forbidden during the flowering period and the production of honeydew due to aphid attacks. Moreover, products known to be dangerous to bees should be labelled as being dangerous to bees and other pollinator insects (Table 3.1). 

Art. 8 1. With a view to protecting bees and other pollinating insects, treatments involving insecticides and acaricides are forbidden, whatever the product and application apparatus used, on all crops and forestry plantations visited by these insects during flowering and during the honeydew production period following attacks from aphids. 

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