Toxicity: acute oral LD50 for rats = 1700 mg/Kg
Chemical group: organophosphate
IRAC = 1B
Introduction:
Fenitrothion is an insecticide used for controlling chewing and sucking pests across various crops. As a synthetic organophosphate acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and endocrine disruptor, it primarily functions as a pesticide. Fenitrothion acts through non-systemic contact and stomach action, functioning as a cholinesterase inhibitor to control pests.
SPECIFIC USE INSTRUCTIONS:
| crop | pest | Dosage |
| Wheat | Harmful bug (Eurygaster integriceps) | 1.2 liters per hectare |
| Cereals | Grasshopper (Locust) Aphid (Diuraphis noxia) & (Schizaphis graminum) | 1.5 liters per hectare |
| Rice | Striped stem borer (Chilo suppressalis) | 1.5 liters per hectare |
| Alfalfa | Bradyporus (Locust) | |
| Sugarcane | Asian grasshopper (Locust) | |
| Pistachio | Pistachio Nematospora vector bugs (Acrosternum spp.) | 1.5 to 2 liters per thousand liters of water |
| Pistachio bark beetle (Chaetoptelius vestitus) |
