BIOPESTICIDES

Biopesticides are an important group of pesticides that can reduce pesticide risks. Biopesticides, in general:
* Have a narrow target range and a very specific mode of action;
* Are slow acting;
* Have relatively critical application times;
* Suppress, rather than eliminate, a pest population;
* Have limited field persistence and a short shelf life;
* Are safer to humans and the environment than conventional pesticides;
* Present no residue problems.

The two types of biopesticides are biochemical and microbial.

Biochemical pesticides may have a similar structure to, and function like, naturally occurring chemicals, and have nontoxic modes of action. Insect pheromones, for example, are naturally-occurring chemicals that insects use to locate mates. Man-made pheromones are used to disrupt insect mating by creating confusion during the search for mates, or can be used to attract male insects to traps. Pheromones are often used to detect or monitor insect populations, or in some cases, to control them.

Microbial insecticides are another kind of biopesticide. They come from naturally-occurring or genetically altered bacteria, fungi, algae, viruses or protozoans.

They suppress pests by:
* Producing a toxin specific to the pest;
* Causing a disease;
* Preventing establishment of other microorganisms through competition; or
* Other modes of action.

An example of a microbial pesticide is Bacillus thuringiensis, or "Bt." Bacillus thuringiensis is a naturally occurring soil bacteria that is toxic to the larvae of several species of insects but not toxic to nontarget organisms. Bacillus thuringiensis can be applied to plant foliage or incorporated into the genetic material of crops. Bacillus thuringiensis, as discovered, is toxic to the caterpillars (larvae) of moths and butterflies. Several strains of Bt have been developed and now strains are available that control fly larvae. These can be used in controlling mosquitoes and blackflies.

bioace BIO-ACE nematicidal fungus
BIO-ACE is an unique organic nematicidal fungus nematicidal funguswhich starts attacking crop damaging nematodes in their second instar stage. Bio-Ace is an advanced strain of a fungus Paecilomyses lilacinus which has the ability to colonize the eggs of a wide range of harmful nematodes.
It can control a wide range of nematodes like root knot, cyst nematode, reniform nematodes and stunt nematodes.
It can be used on all fruits, vegetables, plantation, forest crops, ornamental and horticultural crops.
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bioavard mucor haemelis BIOAVARD mucor haemelis
BIO-AVARD is a formulation of friendly fungus Mucor Haemelis which infects crop eating caterpillars of sugarcane top borer, gram caterpillar, semi looper and white grubs which attack and damage cotton, soybean, jwar, sugarcane, vegetables, fruits and flower crops.
It is eco-friendly, long lasting and economical in use.
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biocross BIOCROSS carnivorous predators
BIOCROSS is another predacious friendly insect that feeds on soft bodied insect pests which attack the field crops.
This friendly insect is called Chrysoperla Carnea. the insect pests controlled by it are many crop eating caterpillars, aphids, jassids, Girdle beetle etc which attack cotton, soybean, sugarcane, vegetables, etc.
Its larvae are voracious feeders and eat away their pray many times their own number.
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biohit trichoderma viride BIOHIT trichoderma viride
BIOHIT is the front rank killer of harmful fungal diseases like fusarium, Rhizoctonia and schlerotium which cause great havoc to all important crops like soybean, cotton, sugarcane, cereals and many more. A formulation of potent antagonistic fungi, Trichoderma viride or Trichoderma herzianum, to control soil borne fungal pathogens that cause diseases in crops. Trichoderma parasitise pathogenic fungi limit their growth and activity. They also produce toxic metabolites and form a protective coating on seeds against soil borne pathogenic fungi.
The hidden fungal diseases spring a surprise with their sudden attack before a farmer can do anything.
But with Biohit - the fungal formulation based on friendly fungus Trichoderma viride strain-14 at hand there is no worry now.
Biohit can be used for seed treatment as well as soil application.
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biomagic metarrhizium anisopliae BIOMAGIC metarrhizium anisopliae
BIO-MAGIC is based on formulation of a friendly fungus Metarrhizum Anisopliae.
It effectively controls White Grubs, brown Leaf Hoppers of paddy, Pyrilla of sugarcane, green semi looper, citrus mealybugs, tobacco cutworms and many more.
Can be sprayed on standing crop or used as soil application.
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biomonarch pseudomonas fluorescens BIOMONARCH pseudomonas fluorescens
BIOMONARCH is a formulation of Pseudomonas flourescens - a very potent microbe that not only cures serious plant deseases like damping off, scab, root & stem rot and blights but also controls some species of nematodes.
BioMonarch also helps plants absorsb available phosphorous and works as catalyst for Trichoderma viride.
Bacteria and fungal propagules on the leaves of crops often serve as nucleation sites for ice formation and ice crystals often form when they are present and the temperature falls below freezing, with resulting damage to the leaf. If these are replaced on plant leaves with competitive antagonists that lack the ice-nucleating protein, frost is prevented, even at temperatures as low as -5 °C. Other strains of Pseudomonos fluorescens are antagonistic to foliar or rhizosphere bacteria and fungi through the production of siderophores and antibiotics.
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biotrapp BIOTRAPP pheromone trap
BIOTRAPP - These mechanical devices catch the grown up stages of nocturnal insects which spread the population of crop-damaging larvae and caterpillars with a suitable lure installed inside the biotraps.

Sex Pheromones: Adult female insects that are ready for mating, emit species-specific chemical odours to attract males. This method of utilising pheromones - produced by insects for their procreation - as tools for their destruction, was introduced by us. Lab-synthesised pheromones are specially packed and supplied as lures, to be used along with suitable traps to deceive, attract and trap male insects.
Monitoring: Installation of traps with suitable pheromone lures @ 2-3 per acre can provide information on pest incidence and intensity in agricultural fields. Based on the number of males caught, the timing and frequency of control measures can be determined.
Mass trapping: Sex pheromones and traps can also be used as a device for reducing the population of target pests. The majority of females present in cropped fields remain unmated and lay infertile eggs as a result of mass trapping of males.
Aggregation Pheromones: Insects also produce chemicals to call others to a location, for eg. when a food source is located. These are called aggregation pheromones and can be effectively used to trap both males and females since both sexes respond to the chemical signal.
These devices catch and collect male moths of destructive pets like helicoverpa, spodoptera, pink bollworm, diamond blackmouth, fruit fly, stem borer and brinjal borers.
A boon to farmers for monitoring insect activity and population to get ready for timely application of plant protection methods.
Our BIOTRAPP's are available/ and being developed for:
  • Aproenema modicella (Groundnut Leaf Miner)
  • Bactrocera cucurbitae (Melon Fly)
  • Bactrocera dorsalis (Fruit Fly)
  • Chilo auricilius (Sugarcane Stalk Borer)
  • Chilo infuscatellus (Sugarcane Early Shoot Borer)
  • Chilo sacchariphagus indicus (Sugarcane Inter-Node Borer)
  • Earias insulana (Spiny Bollworm)
  • Earias vitella (Spotted Bollworm)
  • Helicoverpa armigera (American Bollworm)
  • Hypothenemes hampii (Coffee Berry Borer)
  • Leucinodes orbonalis (Brinjal Fruit & Shoot Borer)
  • Oryctes rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Beetle)
  • Pectinophora gossypiella (Pink Bollworm)
  • Phthorimoea operculella (Potato Tuber Moth)
  • Plutella xylostella (Diamond Back Moth)
  • Rhyncophorus ferrugineus (Red Palm Weevil)
  • Scirpophaga excertpalis (Sugarcane Top Borer)
  • Scirpophaga incertulas (Rice Yellow Stem Borer)
  • Spodoptera litura (Tobacco Caterpillar)
  • Xylotrechius quadripes (Coffee White Stem Borer)
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biotrick wasp BIOTRICK carnivorous predators
BIOTRICK is a card mounted with viable eggs of a friendly wasp - Trichogramma which is an egg parasite of many caterpillars that attack and feed on crops.
The eggs are laid by female Trichogramma wasps under controlled conditions on pieces of cards which are placed in the field where crops are growing. These eggs hatch in time and emerging wasps kill the caterpillar.
Trichogramma are extremely tiny wasps in the family Trichogrammatidae.
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While it is uncommon for an insect?s scientific name, especially one so long and unusual as Trichogramma, to also become its common name, the commercial development of this natural enemy and the fact that it attacks so many important caterpillar pests has earned it a place in the popular vocabulary of many pest management advisors and producers.
Trichogramma wasps occur naturally in almost every terrestrial habitat, and some aquatic habitats as well. They parasitize insect eggs, especially eggs of moths and butterflies. Some of the most important caterpillar pests of field crops, forests, and fruit and nut trees are attacked by Trichogramma wasps. However, in most crop production systems, the number of caterpillar eggs destroyed by native populations of Trichogramma is not sufficient to prevent the pest from reaching damaging levels.
wasp life Biotrick is effective against catterpillars attacking cotton, peas, arhar, tomato, sugarcane, bhindi, paddy, gram and many other crops.
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biowonder beauvaria bassiana BIOWONDER beauvaria bassiana
BIOWONDER is for protecting root and stemm destroying insects.
The entomopathogen invades the insect body. Fungal conidia become attached to the insect cuticle and, after germination, the hyphae penetrate the cuticle and proliferate in the insect's body. High humidity or free water is essential for conidial germination and infection establishes between 24 and 48 hours. The infected insect may live for three to five days after hyphal penetration and, after death, the conidiophores bearing conidia are produced on cadaver. The fungus is insect specific.
Used as foliar sprays. Application rates depend upon the crop and the pests to be controlled. The normal application rate on commodity crops is 750 to 1000 ml of product per hectare, for ornamentals under cover or outdoors 24 to 80 ml per 10 litres and on turf and lawns 32 to 96 ml per 100 square metres.
BIOWONDER protects many crops like soybean, pumpkin, cotton, gram, sugarcane, grapes, sunflower, tomatoes, chillies, brinjals, and flowering plants.
Useful against aphids, beetles, heliothis, etc.
The products may be used alone or tank mixed with other products such as sticking agents, insecticidal soaps, emulsifiable oils, insecticides or used with beneficial insects. Do not use with fungicides and wait 48 hours after application before applying fungicides.
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helicop helicoverpa armigera HELICOP helicoverpa armigera
HELICOP NPV is the front rank killer of harmful insect Helicoverpa Armigera and is a virus strain of Nuclear Polyhedrosis.
A species-specific, disease-causing organism for use against first and early instar larvae of caterpillar pests. The virus is ingested by feeding caterpillars who become pale and start dying within 2-5 days in the characteristic "head down" position, hanging on only with their abdominal pro-legs.
NPVs of the American bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera) and Tobacco caterpillar (Spodoptera litura) (please also see SPODOCOP) are available in liquid formulations which can be mixed with water and sprayed on crops. NPV is safe to non-target species such as honeybees, fish, mammals and beneficials because of its high-specificity.
This virus comes in a ready to use formulation and when sprayed on crops it poisons the body of the harmful insect in no time.
A small quantity of 250 ml. of Helicop AS per hectare is enough to get rid of the green bollworm larvae.
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indoneem neem azadirachta INDONEEM neem oil
INDONEEM is a formulation based on neem oil, a traditional Indian insect and disease repellent.
Indo-Neem contains Azadirachtin - the wonder ingredient which has both insect and fungal disease repellent activities.
It has been found effective against a wide range of insects and diseases on all crops.
Insects treated with Azadirachtin during the larval and pupal stages, comprising 60-70 percent of their lives, generally die within 3 - 14 days.
Unlike chemical insecticides, it works on the insect's hormonal system, not on the digestive or nervous system, and does not lead to development of resistance in future generations.
The chemical composition of them are extremely complex, thus far there are no recorded cases of insect pests having developed resistance to neem.
Neem contains a complete array of bitter constituents known as meliacin of which Azadirachtin is considered the most potent in its pesticidal properties. It is effective against more than 300 species of pests in agriculture, horticulture, forestry and plantation. Neem formulations are available in various concentrations depending on azadirachtin content.
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indeuce nomuraea rileyii INDEUCE nomuraea rileyii
INDEUCE is a biological formulation based on friendly fungus Nomuraea rileyii. It actson harmful caterpillars by gradually paralysing and thus killing them.
It targets larvae and immature stages of aphids, root aphids (especially on grape vines), Thrips, mealy bugs, jassids, leaf hoppers, whiteflies, leaf rollers, leaf miners, cutworms, chaffer beetles (scarabids), etc.
Indeuce is available in both liquid and powder forms.
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spodocop spodoptera litura SPODOCOP spodoptera litura
SPODOCOP is another strain of nuclear polyhedrosis virus which works against yet another deadly pest Spodoptera litura of cotton, soybean and other oilseed crops.
Spodoptera litura is more active on small larvae than later larval instars. The virus is ingested by the feeding larva and the protective protein matrix is dissolved in the alkaline insect midgut, releasing the virus particles. These pass through the peritrophic membrane and invade midgut cells by fusion with the microvilli. The virus particles invade the cell nuclei, where they are uncoated and replicated. Initial replication produces non-occluded virus particles to hasten the invasion of the host insect but later the virus particles are produced with protein matrices and remain infective when released from the dead insects.
As with all insect baculoviruses, Spodoptera litura SPODOCOP NPV must be ingested to exert an effect. Following ingestion, the virus enters the insect's haemolymph where it multiplies in the insect body, leading to insect death. Please also see HELICOP.
Spodoptera litura acts relatively slowly as it has to be ingested and infect before it exerts any effect on the insect host. It is important to ensure good cover of the foliage to effect good control. Monitoring of adult insect laying patterns and targeted application at newly hatched eggs gives better control than on a mixed population.
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vercitile verticillium lecanii VERCITILE verticillium lecanii
VERCITILE is another friendly fungus Verticillium lecanii based formulation. The fungus inserts its mycelium thru the body wall of all stages of insects and kills the insects by infecting it.
The death of the insect occurs because of release of certain toxic elements like Destraksin Desmethyl, Destraksin etc. which kill the hardy stage like pupae of the insects.
Verticillium lecanii (formerly known as Cephalosporum lecanii) was first described in 1861 and is a cosmopolitan fungus found on insects. It is a common pathogen of scale insects in tropical and subtropical climates. V. lecanii is known as a "white-halo" fungus because of the white mycelial growth on the edges of infected scale insects. The conidia (spores) of V. lecanii are slimy and attach to the cuticle of insects. The fungus infects insects by producing hyphae from germinating spores that penetrate the insect's integument; the fungus then destroys the internal contents and the insect dies.
The fungus eventually grows out through the cuticle and sporulates on the outside of the body. Infected insects appear as white to yellowish cottony particles. Diseased insects usually appear in 7 days. However, due to environmental conditions, there may be some considerable lag time from infection to death of insects. V. lecanii works best at temperatures of 15 to 25°C and a relative humidity of 85 to 90%. The fungus needs high humidity for at least 10 to 12 hours. This can be a problem as many plant pathogenic fungi (e.g. Botrytis) favor these same environmental conditions. V. lecanii spores are damaged by ultra-violet radiation. In greenhouses, heating pipes may reduce the effectiveness of the fungus, because this creates a microclimate where the air is drier and humidity is lower. In addition, V. lecanii is generally not useful in interiorscapes due the low humidity conditions in these environments.
The fungal mycelium of V. lecanii produces a cyclodepsipeptide toxin called bassianolide, which has been shown to kill silkworm. The fungus produces other insecticidal toxins such as dipicolinic acid. The activity of V. lecanii depends on the strain of the fungus. V. lecanii strains with small spores infect aphids, whereas fungal strains with large spores infect whiteflies. Certain strains have also been reported to be pathogenic on rust fungi.
Higher doses of the fungus result in faster kill. Virulence depends on the density of spores and rate of sporulation, which is dependent on environmental conditions. Fungal virulence varies with the method of conidial production. Less virulent conidia are obtained from fermented media as compared to shaken liquid or solid media. Formulated products from conidial production can last up to 1 year. These products are easy to wet and dilute for spraying. Also, the fungus can stick to the surface of leaves and host insects. Studies have shown that combining entomopathogenic fungi with an insecticide may enhance its performance as the fungi create wounds that makes it easier for the insecticide to enter the insect.
VERCITILE is effective against hardy insects like scales, aphids, thrips, hoppers etc.
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