flonicamid
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Flonicamid is a synthetic pyridine organic compound used as an insecticide against aphids, whiteflies, and thrips. It disrupts insect chordotonal organs that can affect hearing, balance, movement to cause cessation of feeding, by inhibiting nicotinamidase. It is in IRAC group 29. It is typically sold as wettable granules that are mixed with water before spraying.
Research
203 papers- Flonicamid metabolite 4-trifluoromethylnicotinamide is a chordotonal organ modulator insecticide(†).Pest management science · 2022
- Microbial degradation mechanisms of the neonicotinoids acetamiprid and flonicamid and the associated toxicity assessments.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024
- Enhancement of tolerance against flonicamid in Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) through overexpression of CYP6A14.Pesticide biochemistry and physiology · 2023
- Taste detection of flonicamid in Drosophila melanogaster.Insect biochemistry and molecular biology · 2025
- Risk Assessment of Flonicamid Resistance in Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae): Resistance Monitoring, Inheritance, and Cross-Resistance Potential.Journal of medical entomology · 2021
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Flonicamid is a synthetic pyridine organic compound used as an insecticide against aphids, whiteflies, and thrips. It disrupts insect chordotonal organs that can affect hearing, balance, movement to cause cessation of feeding, by inhibiting nicotinamidase. It is in IRAC group 29. It is typically sold as wettable granules that are mixed with water before spraying.
==Regulation== Products containing this active ingredient have been banned in Denmark because flonicamid can degrade into trifluoroacetic acid, which can then contaminate groundwater and not decompose.
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