Use of neonicotinoids in pest control

US6844339B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Syngenta Crop Protection AG · CH

Inventors

• Bruce Lee · Bad Krozingen, DE
• Marius Sutter · Basel, CH
• Hubert Buholzer · Binningen, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 18, 2002
• Grant date: Jan 18, 2005
• Expiry date: Apr 18, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A01N51/00
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

There is now described a method of controlling pests with nitroimino- or nitroguanidino-compounds; more specificallya method of controlling pests in and on transgenic crops of useful plants, such as, for example, in crops of maize, cereals, soya beans, tomatoes, cotton, potatoes, rice and mustard, with a nitroimino- or nitroguanidino-compound, especially with thiamethoxam, characterized in that a pesticidal composition comprising a nitroimino- or nitroguanidino-compound in free form or in agrochemically useful salt form and at least one auxiliary is applied to the pests or their environment, in particular to the crop plant itself;