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Bifenthrin
General Information
- Fact Sheet: Synthetic Pyrethroids.pdf
- Product Names:
Dexol Lawn Insecticide (Value Gardens Supply)
Bifen Nursery Insecticide Granules (Value Gardens Supply)
Menace (Nufarm)
Ortho Home Defense Indoor/Outdoor Insect Killer (The Scotts Co)
Rosepride Rose & Flower Insect Killer (The Scotts Co.)
Ortho Fire Ant Killer (The Scotts Co)
Ortho Home Defense Max Wasp & Hornet Killer (The Scotts Co)
Ortho Bug B Gon (The Scotts Co)
Talstar (FMC Corp)
Capture (FMC Corp)
Biflex (FMC Corp)
Double Threat Insecticide (FMC Corp)
Hero Insecticide (FMC Corp)
Triple Crown (FMC Corp)
Brigadier Insecticide (FMC Corp)
Allectus (Bayer)
Whitmire Total release Insecticide (BASF)
Turf Builder with Fire Ant-X (The Scotts Co)
Southernmax (The Scotts Co)
Scotts Turf Fertilizer with Ortho Max Pro (The Scotts Co)
Southern Preen Plus (Lebanon Seaboard Corp)
MGK (McLaughlin Gormley King Co)
Tundra (Winfield Solutions)
Sergeants Bifenthrin Shampoo for Dogs (Sergeant's Pet Care Products)
Discipline (AMVAC Chemical Corp)
Wisdom (AMVAC Chemical Corp)
SmartChoice (AMVAC Chemical Corp)
Empower Granular Insecticide (Helena Chemical Corp)
Pro-Mate Bifenthrin plus Fertilizer (Helena Chemical Corp)
The Andersons Fertilizer Bait Granules (The Andersons Lawn Fertilizer Division)
Chemsico Fire Ant Killer (Chemsico)
Crosscheck Insecticide (Lesco Inc)
Sniper (Loveland Products Inc)
Bisect (Loveland Products Inc)
Swagger (Loveland Products Inc)
Turf Pride Fertilizer (Howard Fertilizer & Chemical Co)
CRC Fire Ant Killer Granules (CRC Industries Inc)
Fanfare (Makhteshim Agan)
Mana (Makhteshim Agan)
Aloft (Arysta LifeScience)
Up-Star (United Phosphorus Inc)
Firebird Pro (United Phosphorus Inc)
Maxxthor (Ensystex II)
Wet & Forget Bug Killer (Wet & Forget USA Ltd)
Reclaim (Inova Chemicals)
Kylix Lawn Care (Syntelus)
- Chemical Class: Pyrethroid insecticide
- Uses: Agricultural and nonagricultural and residential sites including corn, cotton, soybeans, fruit, vegetables, herbs, nuts, ornamentals, Crhistmas trees, conifers, golf courses, lawns, rights of ways, wood treatment, food habdling sites.
- Alternatives: Organic agriculture, Organic Christmas trees
- Beyond Pesticides rating:
Health and Environmental Effects
- Cancer: Possible (, )
- Endocrine Disruption: Yes ()
- Reproductive Effects: Not documented
- Neurotoxicity: Yes ()
- Kidney/Liver Damage: Not documented
- Sensitizer/ Irritant: Not documented
- Birth/Developmental: Yes ()
- Detected in Groundwater: Not documented
- Potential Leacher: Not documented
- Toxic to Birds: Not documented
- Toxic to Fish/Aquatic Organisms: Yes ()
- Toxic to Bees: Yes (, )
Residential Uses as Found in the ManageSafe™ Database
Additional Information
- Regulatory Status:
- Supporting information:
- Studies:
- Temporal and spatial trends in sediment contaminants associated with toxicity in California watersheds. (Siegler K, Phillips BM, et al. 2015. Environ Pollut 206:1-6.)
- Predicted transport of pyrethroid insecticides from an urban landscape to surface water. (Jorgenson B, Fleishman E, et al.2013. Environ Toxicol Chem. 32(11):2469-77.)
- Early Life Exposure to Environmentally Relevant Levels of Endocrine Disruptors Drive Multigenerational and Transgenerational Epigenetic Changes in a Fish Model. Major, K.M., DeCourten, B.M., Li, J., Britton, M., Settles, M.L., Mehinto, A.C., Connon, R.E. and Brander, S.M., 2020. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, p.471.
- Bifenthrin-induced neurotoxicity in rats: involvement of oxidative stress.. Syed F, Awasthi KK, Chandravanshi LP, et al 2017. Toxicol Res (Camb). 7(1):48-58.