Fruit Pesticides Toxic to Honey Bees

Highly toxic (severe losses may be expected if bees are present during spraying, or become active in the orchard within a few days after spraying):

azinphosmethyl (Guthion), beta-cyfluthrin (Baythroid XL), bifenazate (Acramite), carbaryl (Sevin), chorpyrifos (Lorsban, Nufos, Yuma), cyfluthrin (Tombstone), deltamethrin (Battalion, Decis), diazinon, dimethoate (Cygon), emamectin benzoate (Proclaim), esfenvalerate (Asana, Adjourn), fenpropathrin (Danitol), formetanate hydrochloride (Carzol), gamma-cyhalothrin (Proaxis), imidacloprid (Provado, Pasada), indoxacarb (Avaunt), lamda-cyhalothrin (Warrior, Lambda-Cy), methomyl (Lannate), methidathion (Supracide), paraquat (Gramoxone), permethrin (Ambush, Perm-UP, Pounce), phosmet (Imidan), pyridaben (Nexter), spinosad (SpinTor, Entrust), spinetoram (Delegate), spirodiclofen (Envidor), thiamethoxam (Actara), zeta-cypermethrin (Mustang Max)

Moderately toxic (These materials should be applied only during the late evening or early morning. They should not be applied directly on bees in the field or on colonies)

acetamiprid (Assail), clothianidin (Clutch), endosulfan (Thionex), oxamyl (Vydate), spirotetramat (Movento)

acequinocyl (Kanemite), abarmectin (Agri-Mek, Abba, Temprano), azadirachtin (Aza-direct), Bacillus thuringiensis, buprofezin (Centaur), captan, clofentezine (Apollo), CM granulovirus (Cyd-X, Carpovirusine), diflubenzuron (Dimilin), dodine (Syllit), etoxazole (Zeal), fenbutatin oxide (Vendex), fenpyroximate (Portal), ferbam, flonicamid (Beleaf), hexythiazox (Savey, Onager), Isomate, kaolin (Surround), maneb, methoxyfenozide (Intrepid), novaluron (Rimon), Ovex (Ovotran), pheromones, pyriproxyfen (Esteem), thiram, thiacloprid (Calypso), wettable sulfur, most herbicides