| Customization: | Available |
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| CAS No.: | 63-25-2 |
| Formula: | C12H11NO2 |
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Carbaryl is a wide-spectrum carbamate Insecticide which controls over 100 species of insects on citrus, fruit, cotton, forests, lawns, nuts, ornamentals, shade trees, and other crops, as well as on poultry, livestock and pets. It is also used as a molluscicide and an acaricide. Carbaryl works whether it is ingested into the stomach of the pest or absorbed through direct contact. Carbaryl is formulated as a solid which varies from colorless to white to gray, depending on the purity of the compound. The crystals are odorless. This chemical is stable to heat, light and acids under storage conditions. It is non-corrosive to metals, packaging materials, or application equipment.
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Active ingredient
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Carbaryl
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Chemical name
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1-naphthalenyl methylcarbamate
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Classification
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Pesticide / Agrochemical
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Biochemistry
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Weak cholinesterase inhibitor.
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Mode of action
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Insecticide with contact and stomach action, and slight systemic properties.
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Usage
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Control of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and other chewing and sucking insects, at 0.25-2.0 kg/ha, on more than 120 different crops, including vegetables, tree fruit (including citrus), mangoes, bananas, strawberries, nuts, vines, olives, okra, cucurbits,
peanuts, soya beans, cotton, rice, tobacco, cereals, beet, maize, sorghum, alfalfa, potatoes, ornamentals, forestry, etc. Control of earthworms in turf. Used as a growth regulator for fruit thinning of apples. Also used as an animal ectoparasiticide. |
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Mammalian Toxicology
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Oral Acute oral LD50 for rats 264, female rats 500, rabbits 710 mg/kg. Skin and eye Acute percutaneous LD50 for rats >4000, rabbits >2000 mg/kg. Slight eye irritant, mild skin irritant (rabbits). Inhalation LC50 (4 h) for rats 3.28 mg/l air.
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