Peter B quoted:

>The neonicotinoids are the only major new class of insecticides developed
> in the past three decades. Worldwide annual sales of neonicotinoids are
> approximately one billion dollars, accounting for 11%–15% of the total
> insecticide market....
> Source:
> NEONICOTINOID INSECTICIDE TOXICOLOGY:
> Mechanisms of Selective Action
> Motohiro Tomizawa and John E. Casida
> Annu. Rev. Pharmacol. Toxicol. 2005. 45:247–68

That may have been true in 2005, but it is not true now. Dow has a new
product marketed as "Delegate", which is spinetoram. It is not a
systemic. But it is also not a neonic, organophosphate, organochloride,
carbamate or inorganic product. It is apparently a new class of
insecticide according to their marketing and it has a new IRAC (insect
resistance...) classification.

This is a link to California's regulatory people again, this time regarding
spinetoram:

http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/registration/ais/publicreports/5946.pdf

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