Feb 27, 2008UPI’s Assail Insecticide Label Expanded
Nippon Soda Company has received EPA approval of Assail insecticide for use on cucurbits, stone fruit, tree nuts, legume vegetables, bulb vegetables, strawberries, blueberries and other cane and bush berries. Marketed and distributed by United Phosphorus Inc., Assail insecticide offers broad-spectrum control on a wide variety of chewing and sucking insects and has long been relied upon by growers to protect the quality and yields of many crops including pome fruit and fruiting and leafy vegetables, as well as potatoes, according to a company press release.
Assail contains the active ingredient acetamiprid, and offers application flexibility for growers and a pre-harvest interval (PHI) of 14 days or less, depending on the crop. The product also can be applied during bloom when bees are not actively foraging. Assail is a reduced risk insecticide with an REI of 12 hours, allowing workers to quickly re-enter the orchard or field.
Assail is labeled for control of difficult sucking and chewing pests, including aphids, leaf hoppers, glassy-winged sharpshooters, whiteflies, cherry fruit flies, oriental fruit moths, codling moths, pecan weevils, thrips, beetles, melonworms, blueberry maggots, peach twig borers, pecan nut casebearers and others to help protect the quality and yield of labeled crops. Assail is available in both 30SG and 70WP formulations.
For more information about Assail, call 800-438-6071 or visit www.upi-usa.com.
