IFAS-Gulf Coast Research

Insecticides, Miticides and Molluskicides for Management of Insect, Mite, Snail and Slug Pests of Florida Strawberry
James F. Price, Curtis Nagle, Elzie McCord and Susan E. Webb

Numerous insect and mite pests in Florida affect production and economic returns in strawberry. Crop managers face enormous difficulties in managing these arthropods efficiently. Once the strawberry crop is in the field, there largely remain only three options for management, (1) a few cultural techniques such as removing ripe fruit from the field to reduce infestations of sap beetles, (2) a few biological techniques such as releasing Phytoseiulus persimilis for control of twospotted spider mite, and (3) insecticides and miticides.

There are numerous active ingredients available to strawberry crop managers in Florida. In many cases the selection and effective use of products among these is key to the efficient management of losses to arthropods. Table 1 presents the active ingredients available to strawberry crop managers in Florida, selected products available from each of the active ingredients, reentry and pre-harvest intervals that must be observed, and arthropods presented on product labels that may be important strawberry crop managers in Florida. Other products composed of the active ingredients may be available and other arthropods may be presented on product labels.

The product label communicates the lawful use of the insecticides and miticides and must be read, understood and followed. The label contains very important limitations that may not be presented in Table 1, such as restrictions on numbers of applications. When using a pesticide for the first time, it is important to apply the product first to a small portion of the crop and wait to observe possible detrimental effects, such as leaf distortion and plant stunting.

ACTIVE INGREDIENT	SELECTED PRODUCTS (others may exist)	REI	PHI	SELECTED PESTS CONTROLLED (see label)
Abamectin	AgriMek 0.15 EC Warning	12 hours	3 days	twospotted spider mites
Acequinocyl	Kanenite 15 SC	12 hours	1 day	twospotted spider mites
Azadirachtin	Neemix 4.5% EC Caution	12 hours	0 days	arnyworms, caterpillars, loopers, thrips
	Ecozin 3% EC Warning	12 hours	0 days	aphids, beetles, borers, bugs, fruit flies
	Azatin 3% XL Plus Caution Aza Direct	4 hours 4 hours	0 days 0 days	aphids, armyworms, beetles, caterpillars, and loopers, thrips aphids, armyworms, flies, mites, thrips, whiteflies
Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki	Javelin WG Caution	4 hours	0 days	armyworms, loopers, omnivorous leaftiers,
	Lepinox WDG Warning	12 hours	0 days	armyworms, loopers,
	Biobit HP DiPel ES DiPel DF Deliver Caution	4 hours 4 hours 4 hours 4 hours	0 days 0 days 0 days 0 days	armyworms, loopers armyworms, caterpillars, loopers armyworms armyworms, loopers
Bacillus thuringiensis aizawai	Agree WG Caution	4 hours	0 days	armyworms
Bacillus thuringiensis aizawai	Xentari Caution	4 hours	0 days	armyworms, loopers
Beauveria bassiana	Botanigard ES Mycotrol O Warning	4 hours 4 hours	0 days 0 days	aphids, thrips
Beauveria bassiana	Naturalis L Caution	4 hours	0 days	ants, aphids, armyworms, budworm, loopers, lygus bug, tarnished plant bug, thrips,
Bifenazate	Acramite-50WS Caution	12 hours	1 day	twospotted spider mites
Bifenthrin	Brigade WSB Warning	12 hours	0 days	aphids, armyworms, plant bugs, stink bugs, spider mites
Carbaryl	Sevin 4F Caution Cutworm and Cricket Bait Sevin 80% S Warning Carbaryl 4 L	12 hours 12 hours 12 hours 12 hours	7 days 7 days 7 days 7 days	cutworms, omnivorous leaftiers, tarnished plant bugs armyworms, crickets, ants, grasshoopers armyworms, omnivorous leaftier, tarnished plant bugs omnivorous leaftier, tarnished plant bug
Diazinon	Diazinon 50W Diazinon AG 600 WBC Diazinon AG 500 Caution	24 hours	5 days	Aphids, cyclamen mites
Dicofol	Kelthane 50 WSP Danger	48 hours	3 days	cyclamen mite, twospotted spider mite
Dicofol	Kelthane 50 WSP Danger	48 hours	3 days	cyclamen mite, twospotted spider mite
Endosulfan	Thionex 50W Endosulfan 3EC Danger	24 hours 48 hours	4 days 4 days	tarnished plant bugs, cyclamen mite
Etoxazole	Zeal	12 hours	1 day	twospotted spider mites, lygus, spittlebug, tarnished plant bug
Fenpropathrin	Danitol 2.4 EC Warning	24 hours	2 days	lygus, tarnished plant bug, twospotted spider mite
Fenbutatin oxide	Vendex 50 WP Danger	48 hours	1 day	twospotted spider mite
Hexythiazox	Savey 50DF, Caution	12 hours	3 days	twospotted spider mite
Imidacloprid	Admire 2 Flowable Admire Pro Allas 2F Couraze 1.6F Provado 1.6	12 hours 12 hours 12 hours 12 hours 12 hours	14 days 14 days 14 days 7 days 7 days	aphids, whiteflies
Malathion	Malathion 5EC Malathion 8F Warning	12 hours 12 hours	3 days 3 days	Aphids, field crickets, lygus bugs, thrips
Methoxyfenozide	Intrepid 2F	4 hours	3 days	armyworms, corn earworm
Naled	DiBrom 8-E Danger	48 hours	1 day	leafrollers, spider mites, omnivorous leaftiers, aphids, thrips, lygus
Neem oil	Trilogy Caution	4 hours	0 days	aphids, mites, whiteflies, thrips; see precaution on captan label
Potassium salts of acids (insecticidal)	M-Pede Warning	12 hours	0 days	twospotted mites, aphids, whiteflies
Propargite	Omite 30W, Omite CR, Danger	3 days	Non-bearing plants for 1 yr	twospotted spider mite
Pyrethrins	PyGanic EC 5.0 Caution	12 hours	0	aphids, armyworms, beet armyworms, fruit flies, lygus, tarnished plant bugs, thrips, whiteflies
Pyrethrins + Piperonyl butoxide	Evergreen ED60-6 Caution	12 hours	0	aphids, armyworms, beet armyworms, fruit flies, lygus, tarnished plant bugs, thrips, whiteflies
Pyripexyfen	Esteem 0.86 EC Esteem fire ant bait	12 hours 12 hours	2 days 1 day	banded wing whitefly, greenhouse whitefly, silverleaf whitefly imported red fire ant
(S) methoprene	Extinguish fire ant bait	4 hours	0 days	imported fire ants
Spinesad	Entrust Spintor 2 SC Justice Bait	4 hours 4 hours 4 hours	1 day 1 day 0	armyworms, beet armyworms, thirps, leaf rollers imported fire ants
Spiromesifen	Oberon 2SC	12 hours	3 days	twospotted spider mites, whiteflies
Thiamehtoxam	Actara 25 WG	12 hours	3 days	aphids, leafhoppers, weevil adult, whiteflies

SELECTED PRODUCTS

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SELECTED PESTS CONTROLLED