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Label & SDS

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Registration information

  • U.S. EPA Registration number: 5905-2
  • U.S. EPA Status: CANCELLED

Description

'Helena Brand 5% Cythion Dust' is an insecticide and miticide. Its Federal EPA registration number is: 5905-2. It was originally approved by EPA on 12 Feb 1958. Its registration got cancelled on 10 Oct 1989. It has a 'Caution' signal word. It has the following active ingredients: Malathion (NO INERT USE). It's approved for 61 sites including alfalfa, apples, apricots, asparagus, beans, beef cattle, blueberries, broccoli, brussels sprouts, and cabbage. It is also approved for 60 pests and pest groups including but not limited to alfalfa weevil, aphids, armyworm, bagworm, blackheaded fireworm, brown apricot scale, cabbage looper, chicken red mite, clover mite, and cotton leafworm.

Original registration date:

  • 12 Feb 1958

Cancellation date:

  • 10 Oct 1989

Alternative names:

  • 5% MALATHION DUSTInactive
  • HELENA BRAND 5% CYTHION DUSTActive

Registrant:

  • HELENA AGRI-ENTERPRISES, LLC, D/B/A HELENA CHEMICAL COMP
  • Address:
    225 Schilling Blvd., Suite 300
    Collierville, TN 38017

Active ingredients:

  • Malathion (no inert use) 5%
  • Other ingredients 95%

Signal word:

  • Caution

Product type:

  • Insecticide
  • Miticide

Formulation:

  • Dust

Registered target pests:

  • Alfalfa weevil (larvae)
  • Aphids
  • Armyworm
  • Bagworm
  • Blackheaded fireworm
  • Brown apricot scale (crawlers)
  • Cabbage looper
  • Chicken red mite
  • Clover mite
  • Cotton leafworm
  • Cucumber beetles
  • Drosophila
  • European red mite
  • Field crickets
  • Flea beetles
  • Flea beetles (adult)
  • Fleas
  • Fourlined plant bug
  • Green apple aphid
  • Horn fly
  • Imported cabbageworm
  • Japanese beetle
  • Japanese beetle (adult)
  • Leafhoppers
  • Lice
  • Lygus bugs
  • Mexican bean beetle
  • Millipedes
  • Mites
  • Mosquitoes
  • Nitidulid beetles
  • Northern fowl mite
  • Onion thrips
  • Orange tortrix
  • Pacific spider mite
  • Pea aphid
  • Pear psylla
  • Pepper maggot
  • Pickleworm
  • Plum curculio
  • Potato leafhopper
  • Poultry lice
  • Rose leafhopper
  • Rose scale
  • Rosy apple aphid
  • Sharpnosed leafhopper
  • Sowbugs
  • Spider mites
  • Spittlebugs
  • Springtails
  • Squash vine borer
  • Strawberry leafroller
  • Strawberry root weevil
  • Tarnished plant bug
  • Thrips
  • Tomato russet mite
  • Twospotted spider mite
  • Vetch bruchid
  • Whiteflies
  • Woolly apple aphid

Registered target sites:

  • Alfalfa (foliar treatment)
  • Apples (foliar treatment)
  • Apricots (foliar treatment)
  • Asparagus (foliar treatment)
  • Beans (foliar treatment)
  • Beef cattle (animal treatment)
  • Blueberries (foliar treatment)
  • Broccoli (foliar treatment)
  • Brussels sprouts (foliar treatment)
  • Cabbage (foliar treatment)
  • Cantaloupes (foliar treatment)
  • Carrots (foliar treatment)
  • Cat kennels (enclosed premise treatment)
  • Cat pens
  • Cat yards (open premise treatment)
  • Cauliflower (foliar treatment)
  • Chickens (animal treatment)
  • Chickens (enclosed premise treatment)
  • Cotton (foliar treatment)
  • Cranberries (foliar treatment)
  • Cucumbers (foliar treatment)
  • Dairy cattle (animal treatment)
  • Dates (foliar treatment)
  • Dog kennels (enclosed premise treatment)
  • Dog pens
  • Dog runs/yards (open premise treatment)
  • Ducks (animal treatment)
  • Ducks (enclosed premise treatment)
  • Geese (animal treatment)
  • Geese (enclosed premise treatment)
  • General outdoor treatment
  • Grapes (foliar treatment)
  • Greenhouse (ornamental) (outdoor)
  • Hog pens
  • Hogs (animal treatment)
  • Houses (outdoor)
  • Kale (foliar treatment)
  • Lettuce (foliar treatment)
  • Melons (foliar treatment)
  • Mustard (greens) (foliar treatment)
  • Onions (seed treatment)
  • Ornamental herbaceous plants (soil treatment)
  • Ornamental lawns (foliar treatment)
  • Ornamental plants (foliar treatment)
  • Ornamental plants (greenhouse-soil treatment)
  • Pears (foliar treatment)
  • Peas (foliar treatment)
  • Peppermint (foliar treatment)
  • Peppers (foliar treatment)
  • Poultry house premises (enclosed premise treatment)
  • Pumpkin (foliar treatment)
  • Raspberries (foliar treatment)
  • Spearmint (foliar treatment)
  • Spinach (foliar treatment)
  • Squash (foliar treatment)
  • Strawberries (foliar treatment)
  • Tobacco (foliar treatment)
  • Tomatoes (foliar treatment)
  • Turkeys (animal treatment)
  • Turkeys (enclosed premise treatment)
  • Turnips (foliar treatment)