Fluoroacetamide as a Systemic Insecticide

Abstract

IT may be of interest to report that we found, as preliminary to many field experiments on the systemic insecticidal activity of fluoroacetamide against aphid pests of a number of flowering plants, that cuttings of rose bushes (unidentified species), infested very seriously with Macrosiphum rosae L. and their cut ends dipped in solutions of the insecticide at certain concentration (with 0.05 per cent wetting agent added), gave the kills indicated (Table 1).