New Zealand’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has approved raising the number of applications of Syngenta’s thiamethoxam-based neonicotinoid insecticide, Actara, from four per year up to a maximum of eight in a single area for the control of brown marmorated stink bugs (BMSB – Halyomorpha halys). The Authority had invited comments on the issue in October last year following a request for the change from the country’s Ministry for Primary Industries. The move is in response to an infestation of BMSB in New Zealand, with the Authority rating it as a “most serious” biosecurity threat.
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