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Calypso Insecticide Bayer CropScience

Calypso

Overview

Bayer would like to provide notice of the discontinuation of Calypso® insecticide in the Canadian marketplace after the 2024 season. Calypso products, regardless of brand, are not permitted to be sold to growers after the 2024 growing season and are not permitted to be used after the 2025 growing season. 

Product Summary

Insecticide

Product Type

  • Insecticide
Crops

Crops

Pests Controlled

Pests Controlled

Pests Supressed

Pests Suppressed

Groups and Active Ingredients

Groups and Active Ingredients

  • Thiacloprid - Group 4
Formulation Type

Formulation Type

  • Suspension Concentrate
Packaging

Packaging

  • 1.7 L Jug

Application Tips

Overview


  • Broad-spectrum control of chewing and sucking insect pests
  • Excellent ovicidal activity on codling moth and Oriental fruit moth
  • Ideal replacement for Guthion and other old OPs
  • Gentle on beneficials and bees
  • Easy-to-handle liquid flowable formulation
  • Translaminar and locally systemic
  • Controls insect pests by contact action and by ingestion of the treated plant tissue

 

Rate
145-440 mL/ha

 

Application Tips


  • Maximum 3 applications/year
  • Rainfast: 4 hours
  • Stable in water pH 5 to 9
  • Ideal for petal fall/calyx spray for broad-spectrum control
  • For codling moth and OFM, apply a little earlier than you would have applied an OP
  • Pre-harvest interval: 30 days

Active Ingredients

Thiacloprid

Resistance Management

Alternate the use of Calypso with other insecticides having a different mode of action.

Crops

Apples
Crabapples
Loquat
Mayhaw
Pears
Quince

Pests Controlled

Apple maggot
Codling moth
European Apple Sawfly
Leafhopper
Leafminer
Mullein plant bug
Oriental fruit moth
Pear psylla
Plum curculio

Labels and SDS

Province of Registration

British Columbia
New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec