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Combi-protec®
Combi-protec® is an adjuvant for use with insecticide treatments to control fly pests such as SWD.
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Crop Type
Fruit, Top Fruit
How to Use
combi-protec® is an approved adjuvant in the UK. Always read the label before use.
Store combi-protec under ambient conditions out of direct sunlight.
combi-protec® is a highly viscous liquid (do not mix directly into spray tank) and therefore requires the following steps to be followed when handling and adding to a spray tank:
Do not fill combi-protec® into the sprayer without pre-mixing.
Half fill a bucket with warm water (dilutes best between 20°C and 40°C [bath water temperature])
Add combi-protec (ratio1:1), stir immediately.
Add insecticide partner.
Add to spray tank with remaining water.
Spray onto dry leaves
Rainfastness:
Avoid spraying less than 24 hours before rain
Reduce spray interval after significant rainfall (>10 mm/day)
Clean sprayer after using combi-protec
Use pesticides safely, always read the label before use.
Advantages
Adjuvant for tank mixing with insecticides against adult fly pests such as spotted-wing drosophila (SWD, Drosophila suzukii).
When present in insectiocide spray droplets, combi-protec stimulates and prolongs adult fly feeding. Increased feeding increases the oral uptake of insecticide reducing time between insecticide exposure and insect death.
Increasing the speed of SWD mortality reduces the time available to mate and lay eggs once the adult SWD have ented the crop area. Reducing pest egg laying reduces crop damage.
Approved adjuvant for increasing the efficacy of insecticides against spotted-wing drosophila (SWD, Drosophila suzukii), a fly pest of many fruits.
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Regulations
It is a criminal offence to use pesticides authorised for professional use without the appropriate certificate and it is a criminal offence to purchase pesticides authorised for professional use for someone else to use if the user does not hold the relevant certificate of competence ((unless the intended end user is working under supervision of a certificated person for the purposes of training).
Combi-protec an approved plant professional protection product.
Use plant protection products safely.
Always read the label and product information before use.
Further detail on warning symbols and phrases is included on the labels and leaflets.

Why use Combi-protec?
combi-protec® increases the feeding of adult spotted wing drosophila (SWD, Drosophila suzukii) fruit flies. When tank mixed and co-applied with an SWD insecticide it therefore increases the rate of insecticide uptake. Increasing insecticide uptake results in faster adult SWD kill therefore giving them less time within the crop to lay eggs and cause crop damage.
Replicated cage studies have shown that time to 90% adult Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD, Drosophila suzukii) mortality of 50% spinosad + combi-protec® was 33 hours faster than 100% spinosad treatment.