Product Info

Overview

Ken-Tac 100 Insecticide is a pyrethroid insecticide particularly active against caterpillars, thrips, aphids and industrial pests including flies, spiders, cockroaches and ants. Ken-Tac 100 Insecticide provides a rapid knockdown combined with a good residual effect. Because Ken-Tac 100 Insecticide is not systemic, good coverage is essential to obtain control. 

Withholding Periods:

Brassicas and Tomatoes (Field) – 3 days. Sweetcorn – 7 days. Onions – 14 days. Do not graze or feed livestock on treated maize or sweetcorn stubble within 14 days of treatment. Do not graze pasture within 7 days of treatment or cut for stockfeed within 14 days of treatment. Do not apply to stone fruit after the appearance of the first flower or to kiwifruit after cracking of flower buds (first visible petals).

Resistance Management:

Ken-Tac 100 Insecticide contains the synthetic pyrethroid alpha-cypermethrin. Resistance to this insecticide could develop from excessive use. To minimise this risk, use strictly in accordance with label instructions. Consult http://resistance.nzpps.org/index.php for alternative modes of action and details of resistance management strategies (if any) for the insect pests isted on the label. To minimise resistance problems:

-  Rotate pesticides during the season to use others (i.e., non – pyrethroid) with a different mode of action

-  Avoid unnecessary spraying

-  Maintain good cultural practices

-  Vegetable brassicas: Use in alternation with an insecticide with a different mode of action

-  Aphids: Use in alternation with an insecticide with a different mode of action

-  Corn earworm / Tomato fruitworm: Do not use before 7 January

-  Diamond back moth caterpillars: Refer to NZPPS website 

-  Onion thrips: Do not use before late January. Use in alternation with an insecticide with a different mode of action