Water insecticides

Extraction Procedure. We modified the extraction procedure of Nelson et al (10). Brie acidified with 2 ml of 5% trichloracetic acid (TCA) was extracted 3 times with 20 ml of petroleum ether. The combined extracts were reduced to 5 ml in a rotating evaporator, returned to the separatory funnel, and combined with 60 ml each of acetonitrile and distilled water. The acetonitrile-water-insecticide mixture was extracted twice with 60 ml of petroleum ether and anhydrous Na2S04 was added to the combined 120 ml extract. The extract was evaporated just to dryness and the residue was dissolved in benzene for analysis by gas-liquid chromatography (GLC). Extraction efficiencies in spiked experiments were 73% (aldrin) and 83% (dieldrin). 

Control small infestations by spraying them off the plant with water. Insecticidal soap will also control mealybugs be sure to cover the plant thoroughly. 

Water-Soluble Films. Water-soluble films can be produced from such polymers as poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVOH), methylceUulose, poly(ethylene oxide), or starch (qv) (see Cellulose ethers Polyethers Vinyl polymers). Water-soluble films are used for packaging and dispensing portions of detergents, bleaches, and dyes. A principal market is disposable laundry bags for hospital use. Disposal packaging for herbicides and insecticides is an emerging use. 

Sulfur and its compounds are among the oldest and most widely used pesticides. Elemental sulfur is especially effective as a dust for the control of mites attacking citms, cotton, and field crops and as a protectant against chiggers, Trombicula spp., attacking humans. Sulfur also is a valuable fungicidal diluent for other dust insecticides and is used in wettable form as a spray mixture. Time sulfur has been a standard dormant spray for the control of the San Jose Quadraspidiotuspemiciosus and for other scales and various plant diseases. Time sulfur is a water-soluble mixture of calcium pentasulfide,... 

Pyrethroid Esters of Benzene Acetate. These insecticides have more extensive stmctural optimization in both acid and alcohol moieties. Fenvalerate [51630-58-17, a-cyano-(3-phenoxyphenyl)methyl (+)-(2R,5)"Ct"isoprop5i-4-chlorophenylacetate (24) d 1.17, vp 1.4 p.Pa at 25°C), a mixture of four isomers, is soluble in water to 0.3 mg/L The rat oral LD q is 450 mg/kg. Esfenvalerate [66230-04-4] is the (+)-2-(i, 5)-isomer (mp 59°C). The rat LD qS are 75, 458 (oral), and the rabbit dermal LD q is 2000 mg/kg. These pyrethroids are widely used general-purpose insecticides for field, vegetable, and fmit crops. 

Cyclodienes. These are polychlorinated cycHc hydrocarbons with endomethylene-bridged stmctures, prepared by the Diels-Alder diene reaction. The development of these insecticides resulted from the discovery in 1945 of chlordane, the chlorinated adduct of hexachlorocyclopentadiene and cyclopentadiene (qv). The addition of two Cl atoms across the double bond of the ftve-membered ring forms the two isomers of chlordane [12789-03-6] or l,2,4,5,6,7,8,8-octachloro-2,3,3t ,4,7,7t -hexahydro-4,7-methano-lJT-indene, QL-trans (mp 106.5°C) and pt-tis (32) (mp 104.5°C). The p-isomerhas signiftcantiy greater insecticidal activity. Technical chlordane is an amber Hquid (bp 175°C/267 Pa, vp 1.3 mPa at 25°C) which is soluble in water to about 9 fig/L. It has rat LD qS of 335, 430 (oral) and 840, 690 (dermal) mg/kg. Technical chlordane contains about 60% of the isomers and 10—20% of heptachlor. It has been used extensively as a soil insecticide for termite control and as a household insecticide. 

Dieldrin [60-57-1] or l,2,3,4,10,10-hexachloro-l,4,4t ,5,8,8t -hexahydro-6,7-epoxy-l,4- <7o, Aro-5,8-dimethanonaphthalene (34) (mp 176°C, vp 0.4 mPa at 20°C) is formed from aldrin by epoxidation with peracetic or perben2oic acids. It is soluble in water to 27 / g/L. Aldrin and dieldrin have had extensive use as soil insecticides and for seed treatments. Dieldrin, which is very persistent, has had wide use to control migratory locusts, as a residual spray to control the Anopheles vectors of malaria, and to control tsetse flies. Because of environmental persistence and propensity for bio accumulation, registrations in the United States were canceled in 1974. 

Endrin [72-20-8] is l,2,3,4,10,10-hexachloro-l,4,4t ,5,8,8t -hexahydro-6,7-epoxy-l,4- <7o, <7o-5,8-dimethanonaphthalene (35) (mp 245 dec, vp 0.022 mPa at 25°C) and is soluble in water to 23 / g/L. It is produced by a Diels-Alder reaction of hexachloronorbomadiene with cyclopentadiene, followed by epoxidation. This reaction produces the endo,endo isomer of dieldrin, which is less stable and more toxic with rat LD q values of 17.8 and 7.5 (oral) and 15 (dermal) mg/kg. It is used as a cotton insecticide but because of its high toxicity to fish it has been restricted. 

The rat LD qS are 13, 3.6 (oral) and 21, 6.8 (dermal) mg/kg. Parathion is resistant to aqueous hydrolysis, but is hydroly2ed by alkah to form the noninsecticidal diethjlphosphorothioic acid and -nitrophenol. The time required for 50% hydrolysis is 120 d ia a saturated aqueous solution, or 8 h ia a solution of lime water. At temperatures above 130°C, parathion slowly isomerizes to 0,%diethyl 0-(4-nitrophenyl) phosphorothioate [597-88-6] which is much less stable and less effective as an insecticide. Parathion is readily reduced, eg, by bacillus subtilis ia polluted water and ia the mammalian mmen to nontoxic 0,0-diethyl 0-(4-aminophenyl) phosphorothioate, and is oxidized with difficulty to the highly toxic paraoxon [511-45-5] diethyl 4-nitrophenyl phosphate d 1.268, soluble ia water to 2.4 mg/L), rat oral LD q 1.2 mg/kg. 

The successful employment of any insecticide depends on its proper formulation into a preparation that can be appHed for insect control with safety to the apphcator, animals, and plants. Insecticides are commonly formulated as dusts, water dispersions, emulsions, and solutions. The preparation and use of such formulations involves accessory agents such as dust carriers, solvents, emulsifiers, wetting and dispersing agents, stickers, and deodorants or masking agents (1). 

Application. The useflilness of any insecticide is substantially dependent upon its proper appHcation and this is deterrnined by the properties of the insecticide, the habits of the pest to be controlled, and the site of the appHcation to be made. The three general methods of applying insecticides are spraying, with water or oil as the principal carrier dusting, with a fine dry powder as the carrier and fumigation, where the insecticide is appHed as a gas (1). 

Sprays are the most common means of insecticide appHcation and generally involve the use of water as the principal carrier, although volatile oils sometimes are used. With the older inorganic insecticides, suspensions in water were used at dilutions of 0.1 ndash 0.2%. The development of the more effective organic insecticides has allowed the widespread use of concentrate sprays in which the toxicant is contained at 10 ndash 98% and the amount of carrier to be appHed is enormously reduced. The use of concentrate or ultralow volume sprays has brought about a revolution in spray equipment away... 

Pesticides. Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides (qv) are often found in feed or water consumed by cows (19,20) subsequently, they may appear in the milk, where they are not permitted. Tests for pesticides are seldom carried out in the dairy plant, but are most often done in regulatory or private specialized laboratories. Examining milk for insecticide residues involves extraction of fat, because the insecticide is contained in the fat, partitioning with acetonitrile, cleanup (FlorisH [26686-77-1] column) and concentration, saponification if necessary, and determination by means of paper, thin-layer, microcoulometric gas, or electron capture gas chromatography (see Trace and residue analysis). 

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