http://www.greens.org/ny/stop-spraying/sumithrin.htm http://www.agrevo.com.au/eh/e023/e023main.htm http://www.agrevo.com.au/eh/e023/e023sum.htm http://www.agrevo.com.au/eh/e023/e023ben.htm http://www.zanus.com/home.html http://www.nypirg.org/mosquito.html http://www.igeba.de/pesticid1.htm http://www.longislandernews.com/9-30-99/li-spray.htm http://www.bonsai-bsf.com/pest/pclasses.html http://www.deh.enr.state.nc.us/Publicinfo/spray_schedule.htm Just a selection of 252 hits at www.alltheweb.com cheers John Mitchell wrote: > In an article in the New York Times about the West Nile virus and the > pesticides and their alternatives being used to knock down the mosquito > population, there is a reference to a pesticide that I can't find any > information about. > Here's the quote from the article, dated April 14th: > "Last summer, Westchester was one of several suburban counties that chose > a different pesticide, sumithrin, sold under the trade name Anvil, for its > attack on mosquitoes." > Using resource links at Dave Green's pollination page, I was unable to > locate any information about sumithrin, and only one reference, in a list, to > a produce called Anvil. However, the pesticide in Anvil in that reference was > said to be hexaconazole. I searched on the Extension Toxicology Network (UC > Davis), and the CDMS label/MSDS information search engine. > Can anybody help me out figuring out what sumithrin or Anvil is, and > whether it is toxic to honeybees?
