Pesticides provide essential protection in the production of many agricultural commodities.

Pesticides provide essential protection in the production of many agricultural commodities.

Two key hormones, ecdysone and juvenile hormone, control metamorphosis and moulting in insects.

Since the deregistration in many countries of most cyclodiene insecticides, the ongoing availability of endosulfan has become important as an alternative option in resistance management strategies of pest species.

Endosulfan has proved to be a cheap and efficacious insecticide. It provides ongoing value in the protection of conventional and transgenic cotton crops against Heliothis and other Insect pests.