SPEAR® T insecticide

A revolutionary insecticide for greenhouse and nursery crops including fruits, vegetables, and nursery flowers.

SPEAR® T insecticide safeguards greenhouse and nursery crops as well as the surrounding environment, workers and beneficials. The product controls major greenhouse pests – aphids, spider mites, spotted-winged drosophila, thrips, and whiteflies – with the same efficacy as conventional insecticides, backed with the safety and sustainability standards of biologicals.

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MOA:

New IRAC Group 32 provides resistance management

PERFORMANCE:

Equivalent control to traditional chemical synthetics

TARGETING:

Highly specific to greenhouse pests, friendly for pollinators/beneficials

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SAFETY:

Excellent safety and environmental profile and a low risk of phytotoxicity

EASE:

Flexible for operations with a 0-Day PHI, 4-Hour REI and MRL exemption

A revolutionary insecticide for greenhouse and nursery crops including fruits, vegetables, and nursery flowers.

SPEAR® T insecticide safeguards greenhouse and nursery crops as well as the surrounding environment, workers and beneficials. The product controls major greenhouse pests – aphids, spider mites, spotted-winged drosophila, thrips, and whiteflies – with the same efficacy as conventional insecticides, backed with the safety and sustainability standards of biologicals.

Crops

Brassicas

Bulbs

Cucurbits

Fruiting Vegetables

Legumes

Nursery Flowers

Pests controlled

Greenhouse pests such as:

  • APHIDS (green peach, cotton/melon+)
  • PLANT-FEEDING MITES (broad, lewis, two-spotted spider+)
  • PSYLLIDS
  • SPOTTED-WING DROSOPHILA
  • THRIPS (onion, tobacco, western flower+)
  • WHITEFLIES (greenhouse, sweet potato+)

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Product information

EPA REG # 88847-6
AI GS-OMEGA/KAPPA-HXTX-HV1A
FORMULATION 2% LIQUID
IRAC GROUP 32
SIGNAL WORD CAUTION
REI 4 HOURS
PHI 0 DAYS
PACKAGE SIZE 1 GAL, 4X1 GAL CASE
USE RATE 1 -3 GAL/ACRE
SURFACTANT For best performance, use with a NIS or spreader/sticker at 0.125% v/v

Hear from our customers

With not having to worry about phytotoxicity due to the clean safety profile as well as worker protection with the 4-hour REI and 0-day pre-harvest interval my production process in both my retail business and herb production has become much easier.”
Rick Ouding
owner of Kalamazoo Specialty Plants in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Spray applications of VST006340 [Spear-T], which is the liquid formulation, tested on the two spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) provided excellent control. A compound with a novel mode of action that provides quick contact kill of mite populations would be very beneficial to agricultural and ornamental growers as the two spotted spider-mite has developed resistance to many of the current compounds available."
John Trumble
Distinguished Professor of Entomology, UC Riverside
This novel code confirms that SPEAR® targets the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and does so in a different way from any existing class of insecticides.This novel code confirms that SPEAR® targets the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and does so in a different way from any existing class of insecticides."
Bob Kennedy, PhD
Vestaron’s Chief Science Officer

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