Formulation: Powder for Seed Treatment
SafeGuard is a formulated mixture of insecticide and fungicide, which could be used to control insect pests and plant diseases at the same time.
Imidacloprid is used for controlling of sucking insects, including plant hoppers, aphids, thrips and whitefly. Also effective against soil insects, termites and some species of biting insects, Has no effect on nematodes and spider mites.
Used as a seed dressing, as soil treatment and as foliar treatment in different crops, e.g. cotton, cereals, maize, sugar beet, potatoes, vegetables, citrus fruit, pome fruit and stone fruit.
Metalaxyl is used for controlling diseases caused by air- and soil- borne Foliar sprays with mixtures of metalaxyl and protectant fungicides are recommended to control air-borne diseases caused by Pseudoperonospora humuli on hops, Phytophthora infestans on potatoes and tomatoes, Peronospora tabacina on tobacco, and downy mildews on various vegetables, at 200-300 g/ha.
Soil applications of metalaxyl alone are used to control soil-borne pathogens causing root and lower stem rots . Seed treatments control systemic Peronosporaceae on maize, peas, sorghum and sunflowers, as well as damping-off (Pythium spp.) of various crops.
Thiram is a protective fungicide applied to foliage to control: Botrytis spp, soft fruit, lettuce, vegetables and ornamentals; rust on ornamentals; scab and storage diseases on apples and pears; leaf curl and Monilia on stone fruit.
Used in seed treatments alone or in combination with added insecticides or fungicides to control damping-off diseases (e.g. Pythium spp.), and other diseases like Fusarium spp. of maize, cotton, cereals, legumes, vegetables and ornamentals.
Also used as a bird repellent.
Applied at 25-100 g/ha for foliar application, and 50-175 g/100 kg seed for most seed treatments, and 350-700 g/100 kg cotton seed.