The Bayer insecticide Movento, will stop selling on October 31, 2024 and the deadline for its use is April 30, 2025 due to its potential negative impact on bees, as a result of its high toxicity for these pollinating insects.
In today’s article on the Artal Blog we want to talk to you about what Movento insecticide is, what its components are, what it is for and what alternatives you have when it can no longer be used on your crops.
What is Movento by Bayer
Movento is an insecticide that was registered for the control of a wide range of sucking insects on various crops, including:
Fruit trees: apple, pear, peach, plum, cherry, citrus, grapes, etc.
Vegetables: tomato, pepper, eggplant, melon, watermelon, strawberry, etc.
Ornamental crops: indoor plants, outdoor plants, trees and shrubs.
Among its components we find spirotetramat. It is a systemic insecticide that belongs to the tetramate class. Developed by Bayer, it is mainly used to protect agricultural crops against whiteflies, aphids, mealybugs and other insects.
Spirotetramat is a compound that acts by inhibiting lipid biosynthesis in insects, leading to the death of pests by disrupting their ability to feed and reproduce
This active substance of the product, spirotetramat, was classified as highly toxic to bees. This means that it can have a lethal effect on these insects, which are essential for pollination and the ecosystem.
Alternatives to Movento insecticide
After the ban on Bayer’s Movento, many European farmers still do not know what to do to counteract its ban, but fortunately there are various alternatives available on the market such as biological plant-based insecticides, as well as different cultural control methods.
Furthermore, it is worth remembering that plants have an immune system that is responsible for their ability to survive for millennia in the presence of pests and diseases, so the use of plant immunotherapy is a very interesting new tool to take into account.
Plant immunotherapy is a new approach in agriculture that uses substances produced by plants or manufactured in the laboratory to improve, activate, strengthen or enhance their immune system, making them more resilient.
ARTAL makes its range of Primtal Stress-Free Technology products available to farmers. These Primtal products, based on the “priming” mechanism, activate the immune system of plants without generating energy costs.
Plant immunotherapy in combination with different crop management strategies in the presence of pests and diseases has proven to be an effective tool for safe, sustainable and highly productive agriculture.