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Pesticides, Organic Contaminants, and Pathogens in Air
FIGURE 12.1
Avermectins are natural pesticides.
TABLE 12.1
Examples of Biopesticides Marketed by Specialty and Major Crop Protection
Companies (Seiber et al., 2018)
Biopesticide
Company
Use
Type
Spinosad
Dow
Insecticides
Spinosad and
Spinosyns A and D
Avermectins
Merck and others
Anthelmintics, insecticides Macrocyclic lactones
Requiem, Sonata,
Ballad
Bayer Crop Science Insecticide, fungicides
Microbial strains and
mixtures
Serenade
Bayer Crop Science Fungicide
Extract of giant
knotweed
Cidetrak
Trécé
Insect control via mating
disruption; gustatory
stimulation coupled with
an insecticide
Pheromones,
kairomones
Venerate, Grandevo, Marrone
Insecticides, acaricides,
Microbial strains and
Majestene
Bioinnovations
nematicides
mixtures
PFR-97, CYD-X,
Certis USA
Insecticides, miticides
Insecticidal microbes
Gemstar, etc.
and viruses
Source: Seiber, J.N., Coats, J., Duke, S.O., and Gross, A.D. (2018). Pest management with biopesticides. Front. Agri. Sci. Eng. 5(3): 295–300. © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Higher
Education Press. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0).