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. 2014 Nov 28;5(4):942–951. doi: 10.3390/insects5040942

Table 1.

Insecticides used in the study.

Product % Active ingredients How Applied
Natural, 25(b), or Green Products
Alpine dust (BASF Corp., Florham Park, NJ, USA) 95.0% diatomaceous earth 0.32 oz per 10 ft2
0.25% dinotefuran
BBT-2000 (herbal product; primarily cedar and soybean oil) (Swepe-Tite LLC, Tupelo, MS, USA) 4.0% cedar oil Per label, “as a fine mist”
1.0% soybean oil
Cimexa (Rockwell Labs, Kansas City, MO, USA) 100% amorphous silica gel 2 oz per 100 ft2
Cimi-Shield Protect (PestBarrier Inc., Carson, CA, USA) 2.38% soybean oil Per label, “mix with distilled water, place in never-used spray container, shake vigorously, fan spray from 24 inches, 3 linear ft per second”
13.18% calcium silicate
9.14% aluminum sodium silicate
7.52% iron oxide
7.38% sodium sulfate
7.32% magnesium silicate
4.20% potassium sulfate
2.38% sodium benzoate
EcoRaider (Reneotech Inc., North Bergen, NJ, USA) 1.0% geraniol Per label, “fan spray until wet”
1.0% cedar oil
2.0% sodium lauryl sulfate
Mother Earth D (Whitmire Micro-Gen, Florham Park, NJ, USA) 100% diatomaceous earth 0.5 oz per 10 ft2
Traditional Residual Products
Invader (FMC Corp., Philadelphia, PA, USA) 1.0% propoxur Per label, “crawling pests, 1 s spray per spot”
Temprid Readyspray (Bayer Corp., Monheim, Germany) 0.025% cyfluthrin and 0.050% imidacloprid Per label for spot treatment, “spray 12 to 18 inches from surface, 4 s per 2 ft2
Transport GHP (FMC Corp., Philadelphia, PA, USA) 22.73% acetamiprid 0.3 oz per gallon water per 1000 ft2
27.27% bifenthrin