Entrapment Insecticide a New Tool Soon for Specialty Crop Growers

Attune Agriculture, a leader in hydrocolloid based agricultural products, has announced its new line of insecticides, Entrapment^®, has received EPA registration and will soon be available for use in all states, including California. Entrapment is a new class of insecticide that uses a purely physical mode of action to control insect and mite pests on a wide range of crops without causing phytotoxicity.

Entrapment’s new active ingredient, Rhexalloid^®, transforms every spray droplet into a potential trap on the leaf surface. The tightly anchored “traps” capture or immobilize small insects and mites that come into direct contact with the droplet while not trapping larger beneficials. Entrapment is a non-systemic, contact insecticide that does not disrupt the metabolic or nervous system pathways of pests which minimizes the potential for insect resistance. This makes Entrapment a valuable new tool in all insect resistance management strategies.

Entrapment’s unique spectrum of activity provides effective control of aphids, thrips, psyllids, whiteflies, scales, leafhoppers, mites, plant bugs, flea hoppers, chinch bugs, and small caterpillars. The EPA registered label includes most crops: fruit, nut, vegetable, row crop, greenhouse, and turf & ornamental.

Extensively field tested by reputable third-party ag research facilities across the U.S., Entrapment’s proprietary technology provides control of invasive pests equal to, or better than, chemical standards:

• Apple: 19.3% better codling moth control, compared to a standard chemical rotation
• Almond: 34% better navel orangeworm control, compared to a standard chemical rotation
• Cotton: 13.6% better plant bug control, compared to the chemical standard
• Greenhouse Tomato: 40.9% better whitefly control, compared to the chemical standard

For more information, visit Attuneag.com.