BASF to market and sell Pylon insecticide

BASF Professional Turf & Ornamentals will end its marketing agreement with OHP and return Pylon insecticide/miticide to its ornamentals product portfolio. Pylon, which contains the active ingredient chlorfenapyr, is the 1st product in the pyrrole class of chemistry. It has been labeled for use to control insects and mites on greenhouse ornamentals and fruiting vegetables and offers up to 28 days of control of mites, thrips, caterpillars, fungus gnats and foliar nematodes. Pylon will be offered by BASF starting Nov. 1, 2009. The company is working to expand the label for control of additional pests.