Patent ID: 8232229

Claim:
An aqueous pesticide formulation comprising a) at least one pesticidal agent; b) polyvinyl alcohol (PVA); c) a graft copolymer wherein the graft copolymer is an acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, acrylate, methacrylate or methyl methacrylate polymer with chains of another polymer extending from the acrylate polymer backbone; and d) a plasticizer wherein i. the amount of the pesticidal agent is from about 20% to about 50% by weight of the total formulation; ii. the total amount of the PVA and the graft copolymer is from about 1.0% to about 3.0% by weight of the total formulation; iii. the PVA to the graft copolymer ratio is from about 5-to-1 to about 1.5-to-1 parts by weight; and iv. the amount of the plasticizer is from about 5.0% to about 15.0% by weight of the total formulation.