Rotenone Uses

Rotenone is acclimated as a pesticide, insecticide, and as a nonselective piscicide (fish killer).

It is commercialized as cubé, tuba, or derris, in individual alertness or in accessory aggregate with added insecticides. In the United States and Canada, all uses of rotenone except as a piscicide are getting phased out.

Rotenone has historically been acclimated by aboriginal peoples to bolt fish. Typically, rotenone-containing plants in the Fabaceae ancestors of legumes are ashamed and alien into a physique of water, and as rotenone interferes with cellular respiration, the afflicted angle acceleration to the apparent in an attack to choke air, area they are added calmly caught.

Rotenone has been acclimated by government agencies to annihilate angle in rivers and lakes in the United States back 1952.

Small-scale sampling with rotenone is acclimated by angle advisers belief the biodiversity of abyssal fishes to aggregate cryptic, or hidden, fishes, which represent an important basic of bank angle communities. Rotenone is the a lot of able apparatus accessible because alone baby quantities are necessary. It has alone accessory and brief ecology ancillary effects.

Rotenone is aswell acclimated in delicate anatomy to amusement scabies and arch lice on humans, and abject mites on chickens, livestock, and pet animals.

Rotenone has been acclimated as an amoebic pesticide dust for gardens. Unselective in action, it kills potato beetles, cucumber beetles, flea beetles, banknote worms, raspberry beetles, and asparagus beetles, as able-bodied as a lot of added arthropods. It rapidly biodegrades beneath balmy conditions, so adverse residues are minimal. A ablaze blanket on the leaves of plants will ascendancy insects for several days.