Common name

Diazinon

Product category

Insecticide

Chemical name

O,O-diethylO-2-isopropyl-6-methylpyrimidin-4-ylphosphorothioate

CAS No

333-41-5

Molecular formula

C12H21N2O3PS

Application

Control of sucking and chewing insects and mites on a very wide range of crops, including deciduous fruit trees, citrus fruit, vines, olives, bananas, pineapples, vegetables, potatoes, beet, sugar cane, coffee, cocoa, tea, tobacco, maize, sorghum, alfalfa, flax, cotton, rice, ornamentals, glasshouse crops, forestry, etc.; soil insects (by soil application); phorid and sciarid flies in mushroom cultivation; flies, lice, mites, fleas, cockroaches, bedbugs, ants, and other insect pests in animal houses and household use. Seed treatment for maize, for control of frit flies and also conferring bird-repellent properties. Also used as a veterinary ectoparasiticide.

Formulations

95%Tech, 60%EC,5%GR,2.5%GR

Uses

Diazinon is a non-systemic insecticide used in agriculture to control soil and foliage insects and pests on a variety of fruit, vegetable, nut and field crops.

Diazinon is also used on non-lactating cattle in an insecticidal ear tag. Prior to the cancellation of all residential uses by 2004, diazinon was used outdoors on lawns and gardens, indoors for fly control and in pet collars designed to control fleas and ticks. Uses for individual diazinon products vary widely.

Diazinon products are formulated as dusts, granules, liquids, concentrates, microencapsulations, wettable powders, seed dressings and impregnated materials.

Diazinon was one of the most widely used insecticides for household and agricultural pest control.