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TABLE 10.8
Insecticides Approved for Use at UK MSWLFs, their Chemical Grouping and Target Pest

Pest Active Ingredient Approved Insecticide Chemical Group
Ants, beetles, bugs, cockroaches, Fenitrothion Antec Kurakil Organophosphorus
crickets, earwigs, fleas, mites, EC-Kill
moths, silverfish
Flies Chloropyrifos-methyl Smite Organophosphorus
Diflubenzuron Dimilin Flo Insect growth regulator
Fenitrothion Antec Durakil Organophosphorus
EC-Kill
Pyrethrin Multispray Pyrenthroid
Pybuthrin 33
Trichlorfon Dipterex 80 a Organophosphorus
Bioresmethrin Blade Pyrethroid
General insect control Alphacypermethrin Fendona ASC Pyrethroid
Bendiocarb Various products Carbamate
Bioalletrin bioresmethrin Pybuthrin 33 BB Pyrethroid
Bioresmethrin Biosol RTU Pyrethroid
Safe kill RTU
Chlorpyrifos-methyl Smite Organophosphorus
Chlorpyrifos-methyl Multispray Organophosphorus
Permethrin pyrethrins Pyrethroid
Cypermethrin Various products Pyrethroid
Deltamethrin Crackdown Rapide Pyrethroid
S-bioallethrin
Diazinon Knox Out 2 FM Organophosphorus
Fenitrothion Various products Organophosphorus
Fenitrothion resmethrin Turbair beetle killer Organophosphorus
Permethrin Pyrethroid
Fenitrothion tetramethrin Killgerm Organophosphorus
Pyrethroid concentrate
Permethrin Various products Pyrethroid
Permethrin bioallethrin Various products Pyrethroid
Permethrin S-bioallethrin Various products Pyrethroid
Pirimiphos-methyl Actellic 25 EC Organophosphorus
Actellic Dust
Propoxur Killgerm Propoxur 20 EC Organophosphorus
Pyrethrins Various products Pyrethroid
Tetramethrin Killgerm Py-kill W Pyrethroid
Tetramethrin d-phenothrin Various products Pyrethroid
Tetramethrin resmethrin Swat A Pyrethroid
a Off-label approval — although approved, off-label uses are not endorsed by the manufacturers and such treatments are
made entirely at the risk of the user.
Reprinted with kind permission of the British Crop Protection Council, 1999.

advantage of providing continuous control of house fly populations. Costs for biological control
were a fraction of what they would have been for chemical control. In addition, the reduced use of
insecticides allowed populations of other naturally occurring parasites and predators to build up
(Ellis and Blood-Smyth, no date).