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DITCHLING CORPORATION LIMITED
"Supplying professional Pest Control products since 1964"
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DITCHLING CORPORATION LIMITED
"Supplying professional Pest Control products since 1964"
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HYDRAMETHYLNON is a metabolic toxicant also known as AC217300, Amdro, Combat, Eclipse, Impact, Maxforce, and Siege depending on how, when, where, and by whom, formulated and/or sold.
HYDRAMETHYLNON'S powerful delayed-action makes it an ideal active ingredient for bait products. Whilst traditional insecticides such as organophosphates, carbamates, and pyrethroids affect the nervous system and quickly produce hyperexcitation and convulsions, HYDRAMETHYLNON works gradually as a metabolic poison.
After a single feeding by target insects, there are no immediate symptoms of poisoning; within a few hours, however, the insects become lethargic and stop eating. This condition progresses until the insects die within 24 to 72 hours.
HYDRAMETHYLNON causes death by inhibiting the formation of ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate); ATP provides the energy necessary for completing most biological processes, without ATP insects just die.
HYDRAMETHYLNON is most active against energetic insects, and its speed of kill increases with an increase in temperature and insect activity.
HYDRAMETHYLNON is the active ingredient in MAXFORCE Ant Killer and MAXFORCE Roach KIller Bait in Canada. In the United States MAXFORCE does NOT contain HYDRAMETHYLNON, it has been reformulated with a different active ingredient.
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Resistance Management
For resistance management, please note that MAXFORCE Roach Killer and Ant Killer Baits contain HYDRAMETHYLNON - a Group 20 insecticide. Any insect population may contain individuals naturally resistant to HYDRAMETHYLNON and other Group 20 insecticides. The resistant individuals may dominate the insect population if this group of insecticides is used repeatedly in the same field.
Where possible, rotate the use of MAXFORCE with insecticides from a different group.
and,for Ants DRAX Ant Killer Bait, to which products there is no known resistance
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