Confidor® is the first compound of the group of active ingredients from the chloronicotinyl insecticides (syn. neonicotinoids). Confidor® has an excellent systemic and broad-spectrum activity combined with low application rates and long-lasting efficacy. Confidor® can be applied by: foliar, soil and stem application particularly against sucking insects for fruits, vegetables, grapes and arable crops.
Distributor: Lidorr Chemicals
Pests
Key Indicators
- Silverleaf whitefly
- Corn leaf aphid
- Melon aphid
- Spotted tentiform leafminer,
- Codling moth,
- Pear phylloxera
- Peach twig borer
- Black vine thrips,
- Florida wax scale
- Green Cicada
- Olive fruit fly,
- Leopard moth
- Eradication of adult whiteflies to prevent propagation of tomato yellow leaf curl virus
- Aphids: Melon aphid, Green peach aphid, Spirea aphid, Pea aphid, Bean aphid
- Gall wasps
- Narcissus bulb fly
- lesser and greater
- Red scale
- Florida wax scale
- Spherical mealybug
- Citrus leafminer
- Wooly apple aphid
- Spotted tentiform leafminer
- Pear phylloxera
- Vine mealybug
- Cicadas
- Yellow pecan aphid
- Dubas bug
- Red palm weevil
- Banana aphid
Mode of Action
- Confidor® has an acute, contact and stomach effect and has a mode of action, different to organophosphates, carbamates and pyrethroids, acting on the same target side as acetylcholine receptor agonists.
- It acts by interfering with the transmission of impulses in the nerve system of insects. It acts by exciting certain nerve cells acting on a receptor protein.