Patent ID: 6825227
Filing Date: 2004-11-30
Classification: A01N

Abstract:
A process for killing rice-damaging arthropods in rice plants, comprising applying to said rice plants or to the soil in which they grow, a synergistically arthropodicidally effective amount of a combination of the insecticidal compound fipronil, which is 5-amino-3-cyano-1-(2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-4-trifluoromethylsulfinylpyrazole, as compound (A), and an insecticidal compound (B) which is deltamethrin or cypermethrin, wherein the A/B weight ratio is between 0.1 and 5 when compound (B) is deltamethrin and between 0.05 and 10 when compound (B) is cypermethrin, and wherein from 0.5 to 500 g/ha of compound (A) and from 0.5 to 1000 g/ha of compound (B) are applied.