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Label & SDS

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Registration information

  • U.S. EPA Registration number: 239-739
  • U.S. EPA Status: ACTIVE

Description

'Ortho Citrus Fruit Spray' is an insecticide and miticide. Its Federal EPA registration number is: 239-739. It was originally approved by EPA on 02 Oct 1953. It has a 'Warning' signal word. It has the following active ingredients: Malathion (NO INERT USE). It's approved for 70 sites including apples, apricots, avocados, azalea, beans, beets, broccoli, brussels sprouts, buildings, and cabbage. It is also approved for 63 pests and pest groups including but not limited to ants, aphids, bagworm, bean leaf beetle, black scale, blister beetles, boxelder bug, bud moths, cabbage looper, and clover mite.

Original registration date:

  • 02 Oct 1953

Cancellation date:

  • n/a

Alternative names:

  • BASIC SOLUTIONS BY ORTHO MALATHION INSECT KILLER READY-TO-SPRAYAlternate
  • ORTHO CITRUS FRUIT SPRAYAlternate
  • ORTHO CITRUS INSECT CONTROLAlternate
  • ORTHO CITRUS INSECT SPRAY FORMULA IIAlternate
  • ORTHO MALATHION 50 INSECT SPRAYActive
  • ORTHO MALATHION 50 PLUS INSECT SPRAYAlternate
  • ORTHO MALATHION 50 SPRAYInactive
  • ORTHO MALATHION PLUS INSECT SPRAY CONCENTRATEInactive
  • ORTHO MAX MALATHION INSECT SPRAY CONCENTRATEAlternate
  • ORTHO MAX MALATHION PLUS INSECT SPRAY CONCENTRATEInactive
  • ORTHO MOSQUITO-B-GON TREE & SHRUB SPRAY CONCENTRATEAlternate
  • ORTHO? Garden Defense Malathion Insect Killer ConcentrateAlternate
  • ORTHO? Garden Defense Malathion Insect Killer Spray ConcentrateAlternate
  • ORTHO? Garden Defense Malathion Insect KillerAlternate

Registrant:

  • THE SCOTTS COMPANY
    D/b/a The Ortho Group
  • Address:
    Po Box 190
    Marysville, OH 43040

Active ingredients:

  • Malathion (no inert use) 50%
  • Other ingredients 50%

Signal word:

  • Warning

Product type:

  • Insecticide
  • Miticide

Formulation:

  • Emulsifiable Concentrate

Registered target pests:

  • Ants
  • Aphids
  • Bagworm
  • Bean leaf beetle
  • Black scale
  • Blister beetles
  • Boxelder bug
  • Bud moths
  • Cabbage looper
  • Clover mite
  • Codling moth
  • Codling moth (larvae)
  • Crickets
  • Cucumber beetles
  • Earwigs
  • Florida red scale
  • Fourlined leaf bug
  • Fruittree leafroller
  • Grape leafhopper
  • Harlequin bug
  • Harlequin cabbage bug
  • House fly
  • Imported cabbageworm
  • Japanese beetle
  • Japanese beetle (adult)
  • Lace bugs
  • Leafhoppers
  • Leafminers
  • Lygus bugs
  • Mealybugs
  • Mexican bean beetle
  • Mosquitoes (adult)
  • Oak moth (larvae)
  • Onion maggot (adult)
  • Onion thrips
  • Oystershell scale
  • Pear psylla
  • Pickleworm
  • Plum curculio
  • Purple scale
  • Red spider mites
  • Red spider mites (eggs)
  • Redbanded leafroller
  • Roaches
  • Rose leafhopper
  • Scale insects
  • Scales (crawlers)
  • Soft brown scale
  • Spider mites
  • Spiders
  • Spittlebugs
  • Spruce spider mite
  • Squash vine borer
  • Strawberry leafroller
  • Strawberry root weevil
  • Tarnished plant bug
  • Tent caterpillars
  • Thrips
  • Whiteflies
  • Whitefly (larvae)
  • Woolly aphids
  • Wooly hemlock aphid
  • Yellow scale

Registered target sites:

  • Apples (foliar treatment)
  • Apricots (foliar treatment)
  • Avocados (foliar treatment)
  • Azalea (foliar treatment)
  • Beans (foliar treatment)
  • Beets (foliar treatment)
  • Broccoli (foliar treatment)
  • Brussels sprouts (foliar treatment)
  • Buildings (nonagricultural) (outdoor)
  • Cabbage (foliar treatment)
  • Camellia (foliar treatment)
  • Cantaloupes (foliar treatment)
  • Cauliflower (foliar treatment)
  • Celery (foliar treatment)
  • Cherries (foliar treatment)
  • Chrysanthemum (foliar treatment)
  • Citrus (foliar treatment)
  • Collards (foliar treatment)
  • Cucumbers (foliar treatment)
  • Domestic dwellings (outdoor)
  • Domestic dwellings (outdoor) (outbuildings)
  • Eggplant (foliar treatment)
  • Endive (escarole) (foliar treatment)
  • Fencerows
  • Firewood (soil contact nonfumigation treatment)
  • Gardenia (foliar treatment)
  • Garlic (foliar treatment)
  • Grapefruit (foliar treatment)
  • Grapes (foliar treatment)
  • Ixora (foliar treatment)
  • Kale (foliar treatment)
  • Leeks (foliar treatment)
  • Lemons (foliar treatment)
  • Lettuce (foliar treatment)
  • Lettuce (head) (foliar treatment)
  • Lettuce (leaf) (foliar treatment)
  • Limes (foliar treatment)
  • Mangos (foliar treatment)
  • Melons (foliar treatment)
  • Mustard (greens) (foliar treatment)
  • Okra (foliar treatment)
  • Onions (foliar treatment)
  • Onions (shallots) (foliar treatment)
  • Oranges (foliar treatment)
  • Ornamental evergreens (foliar treatment)
  • Ornamental flowering plants (foliar treatment)
  • Ornamental lawns (foliar treatment)
  • Ornamental trees (foliar treatment)
  • Ornamental vegetation (foliar treatment)
  • Ornamental woody shrubs (foliar treatment)
  • Patios
  • Peaches (foliar treatment)
  • Pears (foliar treatment)
  • Peas (foliar treatment)
  • Peppers (foliar treatment)
  • Porches
  • Potatoes (foliar treatment)
  • Pumpkin (foliar treatment)
  • Radishes (foliar treatment)
  • Roses (foliar treatment)
  • Rutabagas (foliar treatment)
  • Spinach (foliar treatment)
  • Squash (foliar treatment)
  • Stocks (foliar treatment)
  • Strawberries (foliar treatment)
  • Sweet potatoes (foliar treatment)
  • Swiss chard (foliar treatment)
  • Tangerines (foliar treatment)
  • Tomatoes (foliar treatment)
  • Turnips (foliar treatment)