A wide variety of agricultural uses (>100 different crops) including vegetables, tree fruits, grapes, other fruits, tree nuts, beans, potatoes, corn, soybeans, canola, other oilseeds, wheat, oats, barley, other cereal grains, cotton, sugar beet, peanuts, and other crops. Landcape uses include turf, trees, and landscape plantings. Other uses include nursery uses and non-crop uses, including mosquito control.
More than 50 different crops, including: sugar beet, carrot, potato, onion, leeks, scallions, broccoli, soybean, various beans and peas, barley, buckwheat, corn (field, pop, and sweet), millet, oats, rye, sorghum, wheat, triticale, mustard, canola/rapeseed, cotton, sunflower, safflower, peanut, squash, cucurbits, tomato, pepper, and other crops
Xylem and phloem-mobile. According to EPA (2016), imidacloprid is absorbed via the roots, stems, and foliage. For certain crops (squash, cucurbits, tomatoes and peppers), seed treatment is allowed only if the plant is destined for export to Mexico. See Gaucho 600 seed treatment registered crops.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2016. Preliminary Pollinator Assessment to Support the Registration Review of Imidacloprid. 305 pp. Also, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2021. ECOTOX User Guide: ECOTOXicology Knowledgebase System. Version 5.3. Available: http:/www.epa.gov/ecotox/
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2016. Preliminary Pollinator Assessment to Support the Registration Review of Imidacloprid. 305 pp. Also, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2020. Imidacloprid Proposed Interim Registration Review Decision, Case Number 7605. 77 pp.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2016. Preliminary Aquatic Risk Assessment to Support the Registration Review of Imidacloprid. 219 pp.