🔬What is EXIREL?
EXIREL® is a state-of-the-art systemic insecticide, used especially in:
- orchards🍎
- grapevine🍇
👉 It is one of the most modern FMC products for combating difficult pests.
⚗️ Active substance
- Cyantraniliprol – 100 g/l
👉 It belongs to the group:
- diamide antranilice (IRAC 28)
⚙️ Mode of action
- It acts through:
- ✔ ingestion
- ✔ contact
👉 Mechanism:
- activates ryanodine receptors → deregulates insect muscles
- causes:
- paralysis
- stopping feeding
- death in 3–6 days
👉 Very important:
- insects stop eating within a few hours
🎯 Combat spectrum
Effective against:
- apple maggot (Cydia pomonella)
- moths (various lepidoptera)
- thrips
- aphids
- mustards
- defoliating larvae
👉 Controls both:
- sucking insects
- as well as chewers
🌱 Approved crops
In Moldova and Europe:
- apple, pear, quince
- plum, cherry, sour cherry
- grapevine
📊 Doze orientative
- 0.5 – 0.9 l/ha (depending on crop and pest)
✅ Advantages
- ✔fast action (stop feeding)
- ✔ high efficiency on resistant pests
- ✔ long-lasting protection (14–21 days)
- ✔ action on all stages (egg, larva, adult)
- ✔ relatively selective for beneficial entomofauna (good for IPM)
⚠️ Recommendation
- Application at the beginning of infestation
- Ideal in integrated programs (IPM)
- Alternating with other chemical groups (anti-resistance)
- Avoid treatments during bee flight
