Deltamethrin residues applied in different formulations, in staked cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) crop compartments and the insecticide action on the control of the pickleworm, Diaphania nitidalis (Cramer, 1782) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). / Resíduos de deltametrina, aplicada em diferentes formulações, em compartimentos da cultura do pepino (Cucumis sativus L.) tutorado e ação do inseticida no controle da broca-das-cucurbitáceas Diaphania nitidalis (Cramer, 1782) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae).

André Andrade Franco

The agriculture development, the modernization of cultivation means, trying to meet a demanding market, has been based on the use of agricultural supplies to assure a high quality and quantity production. Such crops demand the use of pesticides, whose residues, especially in fruit and vegetable production, raise worries about the consumers health and of the workers who need to return to the treated crop with these pesticides. The objectives of this study were: a) to study the behavior of deltamethrin residues applied in different formulations in fruits, leaves and soil; b) to evaluate the dislodgeable residues of the insecticide in leaves, as a starting point for occupational exposure studies; c) to correlate deltamethrin concentration in fruit with the pickleworm control and d) to correlate residues in fruit with the maximum residue level (MRL) and the safety interval established by the legislation. The treatments were: a) control ; b) three applications of the emulsifiable concentrate formulation Decis 25 CE.100-1 at the dosage of 30 mL of c.p.100 L-1 water (0.75 g a.i. deltamethrin.100L-1 water); c) three applications of the emulsifiable formulation of Decis Ultra 100 CE at the dosage of 7.5 mL of p.c.100 L-1 water (0.75 g a.i. deltamethrin.100. L-1 water) and d) three applications of the concentrate suspension formulation Decis 200 SC at the dosage of 3.75 mL of c.p.100.L-1 water (0.75 g a.i. deltamethrin 100L-1 water). The fruit and soil samples were taken at (-1); zero; 1; 3; 5 and 7 days after the last application; leaf samples and also those for the studies of dislodgeable residues on them were collected at (-1); zero; 1; 3; 5; 7 and 14 days after the last application. The analytical method consisted of the extraction of deltamethrin residues in ethyl acetate, clean-up of the extracts by gel permeation chromatography (GPC), with elutition made with a mixture of ethyl acetate/cyclohexane. The quantitative determination was made by gas chromatograph. To evaluate the insecticide efficacy six infestation surveys were carried out, based on the percentage of infested fruit . The results indicate that the deltamethrin residues in fruit, though in low levels, were found higher than the MRL (0.03 mg.kg-1), for the three insecticide formulations, even a day after the end of the safety interval (2 days). In the leaves the resulting residues of the applications of SC formulation were always bigger than both CE (10-20 times), being 15-80 times higher in the fruits. In the soil, the residues were also low (0.01-0.05 mg kg-1), and similar in the three formulations, however with low dissipation. The dislodgeable residues of deltamethrin in leaves were higher in SC as compared to both CE (4-20 times), with half-life values of 2.8; 3.8 and 32.2 days, respectively for the formulation Decis 25 CE, Decis Ultra 100 CE and Decis 200 SC. The insecticide in the formulations applied was efficient in the pest control during the whole evaluation period.

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