BASF Sultan miticide receives U.S. EPA approval

Ornamental growers now have a new class of chemistry for mite control. BASF today announced it has received U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approval of Sultan miticide – with active ingredient cyflumetofen – for use in greenhouses, nurseries, landscapes, and interiorscapes.

 

Sultan miticide offers growers:

 

“With a quick reproductive cycle, a mite infestation has the potential to destroy an entire crop within weeks,” said Kathie Kalmowitz, Ph.D., market development specialist, BASF. “Sultan miticide offers growers a powerful, targeted and novel tool needed to control mites quickly as part of a chemical program, or when used with beneficials as part of an IPM approach. Programs using biological controls can proceed without disruption while managing damaging spider mite populations.”

 

Sultan miticide will be used as a contact application to key ornamental mites in many annual and perennial crops, including foliage plants such as ficus and palms; woody plants such as hibiscus, butterfly bush and roses; and herbaceous plants such as marigolds, gerbera daisy and chrysanthemum.

 

For more information, visit BetterPlants.basf.us.