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US 20140148493A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2014/0148493 A1 Tamura et al. (43) Pub. Date: May 29, 2014 (54) AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL Publication Classification INSECTICDE COMPOSITION AND METHOD FORUSING THE SAME (51) Int. Cl. AOIN 43/56 (2006.01) (75) Inventors: Shingo Tamura, Tokyo (JP); Takao AOIN4I/O (2006.01) Aoki, Osaka (JP); Ken Kuriyama, (52) U.S. Cl. Tokyo (JP) CPC ................ A0IN 43/56 (2013.01); A0IN 41/10 (2013.01) (73) Assignee: NIHON NOHYAKU CO.,LTD., Tokyo USPC .......................................................... 514/406 (JP) (21) Appl. No.: 14/125,517 (57) ABSTRACT (22) PCT Fled: Jun. 28, 2012 Provided are an agricultural and horticultural insecticide composition comprising flubendiamide and tolfenpyrad as (86) PCT NO.: active ingredients; and a method for using an agricultural and S371 (c)(1), horticultural insecticide composition, comprising treating (2), (4) Date: Feb. 12, 2014 insect pests directly, treating crops potentially infested with the insect pests, or treating Surrounding soil or cultivation (30) Foreign Application Priority Data medium of the crops with an effective amount of an agricul tural and horticultural insecticide composition comprising Jun. 29, 2011 (JP) ................................. 2011-144372 flubendiamide and tolfenpyrad as active ingredients. US 2014/0148493 A1 May 29, 2014 AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL control cannot be achieved in some cases because of the kind INSECTICDE COMPOSITION AND of insect pest to be controlled, habitat characteristics, devel METHOD FOR USING THE SAME opment of insecticide resistance, etc. Under Such circum stances, the development of novel technologies for efficiently TECHNICAL FIELD controlling insect pests that have been difficult or impossible 0001. The present invention relates to an agricultural and to control is desired. horticultural insecticide composition comprising flubendia mide and tolfenpyrad as active ingredients; and a method for Solution to Problem using the same. 0011. The present inventors conducted extensive research to solve the above-described problems. As a result, the BACKGROUND ART present inventors found that a combined use of flubendiamide 0002 Flubendiamide is a commercially available com (general name) (chemical name: 3-iodo-N'-(2-mesyl-1,1- pound as an agricultural and horticultural insecticide. It is dimethylethyl)-N-(4-1,2,2,2-tetrafluoro-1-(trifluorom known that various combinations offlubendiamide or its rela ethyl)ethyl-o-tolylphthalamide), known as an agricultural tive compound and an agricultural and horticultural insecti and horticultural insecticide, and tolfenpyrad (general name) cide have a complementary effect on the insecticidal spec (chemical name: 4-chloro-3-ethyl-1-methyl-N-4-(p-toly trum and that specific combinations of them produce a loxy)benzylpyrazole-5-carboxamide), similarly known as synergistic effect (for example, see Patent Literature 1 to 5 an agricultural and horticultural insecticide, has advantages and Non Patent Literature 1). Tolfenpyrad is also a commer over a separate use of each compound. Such as remarkable cially available compound as an agricultural and horticultural synergistic effect, expansion of the range of target insect insecticide. It is also known that various combinations of pests, dose reduction, reduction of treatment frequency, etc. tolfenpyrad and an agricultural and horticultural insecticide Thus, the present invention was completed. have a complementary effect on the insecticidal spectrum and 0012 That is, the present invention relates to the follow that specific combinations of them produce a synergistic ing. effect (for example, see Patent Literature 6 and 7 and Non 1 An agricultural and horticultural insecticide composition Patent Literature 1). However, compositions comprising a comprising flubendiamide and tolfenpyrad as active ingredi combination of flubendiamide and tolfenpyrad are not entS. known, and it is not known at all that the insecticidal effect of 2 The agricultural and horticultural insecticide composition such a composition is synergistically greater than that of each according to the above 1, comprising 0.1 to 10 parts by mass compound used separately. of tolfenpyrad per part by mass of flubendiamide. 3A method for using an agricultural and horticultural insec CITATION LIST ticide composition, comprising treating insect pests directly, treating crops potentially infested with the insect pests, or Patent Literature treating Surrounding soil or cultivation medium of the crops with an effective amount of an agricultural and horticultural 0003 Patent Literature 1: JP-A 2001-131141 insecticide composition comprising flubendiamide and 0004 Patent Literature 2: WO 2002/087334 tolfenpyrad as active ingredients. 0005 Patent Literature 3: WO 2004/034786 4. A method for controlling agricultural and horticultural 0006 Patent Literature 4: WO 2005/004603 insect pests, comprising treating insect pests directly, treating 0007 Patent Literature 5: WO 2005/004604 crops potentially infested with the insect pests, or treating 0008 Patent Literature 6: JP-A 03-81266 Surrounding soil or cultivation medium of the crops with an 0009 Patent Literature 7: JP-A 2006-131516 effective amount of an optionally diluted formulation con taining flubendiamide as an active ingredient and an effective Non Patent Literature amount of an optionally diluted formulation containing tolfenpyrad as an active ingredient, the two formulations Non Patent Literature 1: being used separately but in the same period. 5. A method for controlling agricultural and horticultural The Pesticide Manual 14th Edition (British Crop Production insect pests, comprising treating insect pests directly, treating Council) crops potentially infested with the insect pests, or treating Surrounding soil or cultivation medium of the crops with an SUMMARY OF INVENTION effective amount of an optionally diluted formulation con taining flubendiamide as an active ingredient and an effective Technical Problem amount of an optionally diluted formulation containing 0010. In the production of agricultural produce, the dam tolfenpyrad as an active ingredient, the two formulations age caused by various insect pests is still large and treatment being used separately at a given interval. with various insecticides is required for control of the insect 6. A method for controlling agricultural and horticultural pests. Such insecticide treatment imposes a particularly great insect pests, comprising mixing an effective amount of a burden on farmers, and reducing the treatment operation has formulation containing flubendiamide as an active ingredient been strongly desired in terms of occupational health, in and an effective amount of a formulation containing tolfen particular the reduction of farmers workload, as well as in pyrad as an active ingredient, optionally diluting the mixture; terms of economics, in particular the reduction of production and treating insect pests directly, treating crops potentially costs of agricultural produce. To this end, various kinds of infested with the insect pests, or treating Surrounding soil or agricultural and horticultural insecticide compositions have cultivation medium of the crops with the optionally diluted been developed. However, in conventional art, effective pest mixture. US 2014/0148493 A1 May 29, 2014 Advantageous Effects of Invention 0017. The inactive carrier may be a solid or liquid carrier. Examples of the Solid carrier include natural minerals, such as 0013 The present invention relates to an agricultural and quartz, clay, kaolinite (kaolin), pyrophyllite, sericite, talc, horticultural insecticide composition comprising flubendia bentonite, acid clay, attapulgite, Zeolite and diatomite; inor mide and tolfenpyrad as active ingredients; and a method for ganic salts, such as calcium carbonate, ammonium sulfate, using the same. The agricultural and horticultural insecticide Sodium sulfate and potassium chloride; organic Solid carriers, composition and the method have advantages over a separate Such as synthetic silicic acid, synthetic silicates, starch, cel use of each compound, such as remarkable synergistic effect, lulose and plant powders (for example, sawdust, coconut expansion of the range of target insect pests, dose reduction, shell, corn cob, tobacco stalk, etc.); plastics carriers, such as reduction of treatment frequency, etc. Therefore, the present polyethylene, polypropylene and polyvinylidene chloride; invention provides a novel technology for efficiently control urea; hollow inorganic materials; hollow plastic materials; ling insect pests that have been impossible or difficult to and fumed silica (white carbon). These solid carriers may be control by conventional technologies. used alone or in a combination of two or more kinds. DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS 00.18 Examples of the liquid carrier include alcohols including monohydric alcohols, such as methanol, ethanol, 0014 Flubendiamide, which is one of the active ingredi propanol, isopropanol and butanol, and polyhydric alcohols, ents of the agricultural and horticultural insecticide compo Such as ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, propylene glycol, sition of the present invention, can be produced according to hexylene glycol, polyethylene glycol, polypropylene glycol the production method disclosed in Patent Literature 1 etc., and glycerin; polyol compounds, such as propylene glycol but commercial formulations thereof are also available for ether, ketones,
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    The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Ctenoptilum Vasava (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae) and Its Phylogenetic Implication

    Hindawi Publishing Corporation Comparative and Functional Genomics Volume 2012, Article ID 328049, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2012/328049 Research Article The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Ctenoptilum vasava (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae) and Its Phylogenetic Implication Jiasheng Hao,1, 2 Qianqian Sun,1 Huabin Zhao,3 Xiaoyan Sun,2 Yong hua Gai, 2 and Qun Yang2 1 College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China 2 SKLPS, LPS, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China 3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Jiasheng Hao, [email protected] and Qun Yang, [email protected] Received 6 November 2011; Accepted 19 December 2011 Academic Editor: Elena Pasyukova Copyright © 2012 Jiasheng Hao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We here report the first complete mitochondrial (mt) genome of a skipper, Ctenoptilum vasava Moore, 1865 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). The mt genome of the skipper is a circular molecule of 15,468 bp, containing 2 ribosomal RNA genes, 24 putative transfer RNA (tRNA), genes including an extra copy of trnS (AGN) and a tRNA-like insertion trnL (UUR), 13 protein- coding genes and an AT-rich region. All protein-coding genes (PCGs) are initiated by ATN codons and terminated by the typical stop codon TAA or TAG, except for COII which ends with a single T. The intergenic spacer sequence between trnS (AGN) and ND1 genes also contains the ATACTAA motif.