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Spinosad

General Information

• Product Names:

  Captain Jack’s Deadbug Brew Flower& Vegetable Garden Dust (Bonide)
  Regard (Syngenta)
  Secure (Bayer)
  Double Threat (FMC)
  Natular (Clarke Mosquito Control Products)
  Consero (Loveland)
  Tracer (Dow)
  Entrust (Dow)
  Conserve (Dow)
  Success (Dow)
  Spintech (Dow)
  Conserve Fire and Ant (Dow)
  Blackhawk (Dow)
  Splat-Mat (Dow)
  Extinosad PSP (Elanco)
  Green Light Lawn & Garden Spray (Swiss Farms Products)

• Chemical Class: Unclassified
• Uses: Controls tobacco budworm, cotton bollworm, cotton leafperferator, European corn borer, armyworms, loopers, saltmarsh caterpillar, thrips.
• Alternatives: Least Toxic Controls
• Beyond Pesticides rating: Toxic

Health and Environmental Effects

• Cancer: Not documented
• Endocrine Disruption: Not documented
• Reproductive Effects: Not documented
• Neurotoxicity: Not documented
• Kidney/Liver Damage: Not documented
• Sensitizer/ Irritant: Not documented
• Birth/Developmental: Not documented
• Detected in Groundwater: Not documented
• Potential Leacher: Not documented
• Toxic to Birds: Not documented
• Toxic to Fish/Aquatic Organisms: Yes (1)
• Toxic to Bees: Yes (1)

Residential Uses as Found in the ManageSafe™ Database

• Bagworms
• Head Lice
• Fleas
• Gypsy Moths
• Mosquitoes
• Snails and Slugs
• Tree-boring Caterpillars

Additional Information

• Regulatory Status:
  • EPA Fact Sheet
• Supporting information:
  • PAN Pesticides Database: Spinosad
• Studies [compiled from the Pesticide-Induced Diseases Database]
  • A Th2-type immune response and low-grade systemic inflammatory reaction as potential immunotoxic effects in intensive agriculture farmers exposed to pesticides . Lozano-Paniagua, D. et al. (2024) ‘A th2-type immune response and low-grade systemic inflammatory reaction as potential immunotoxic effects in intensive agriculture farmers exposed to pesticides’, Science of The Total Environment, 938, p. 173545. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173545.
  • Toxicity of the insecticides spinosad and indoxacarb to the non-target aquatic midge Chironomus riparius. Monteiro, H. R., Pestana, J. L. T., Novais, S. C., Soares, A. M. V. M., & Lemos, M. F. L. (2019). Toxicity of the insecticides spinosad and indoxacarb to the non-target aquatic midge Chironomus riparius. The Science of the total environment, 666, 1283–1291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.303