SPY is a novel product based on a naturally-occurring active ingredient: Spinosad. This ingredient received one of the U.S. government's top environmental honors: the 1999 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award.
SPY can be applied as scatterbait, or using the pour-on, paint-on methods.
SPY's active ingredient and formulation make it suited for use in all farm animal production facilities, but especially in bioproduction facilities.
SPY also contains sugar and the fly pheremone, tricocene, to attract flies.
SPY is devoid of cross-resistance to other insecticides used in fly control. It will therefore remain effective against all known resistant fly strains.
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Benefits of SPY
Efficacy
Spy has been shown to be 100% effective against even those strains of fly that have become resistant to other types of adulticide control.
| Strain |
Amount of active ingredient applied, and mortality. |
| 250ng |
1000ng |
4000ng |
| WHO (reference) |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| F (multi R) |
10 |
97 |
100 |
| Sp (multi R) |
27 |
100 |
100 |
| M (multi R) |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| Sc (multi R) |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| G (multi R) |
47 |
93 |
100 |
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In the above study, resistant strains of fly were exposed to 250ng, 1000ng and 4000ng of Spinosad, with the WHO strain acting as a reference.
Selectivity
SPY is less active against the natural predators of flies, allowing them to play their important role in the Anti-Fly Program.
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