“…Like bifenthrin, chlorantraniliprole, imidacloprid, thiamethoxam, and clothianidin have label claim for managing termites of sugarcane crop. The half-lives (DT 50 ) of the insecticides were reported to be 6.6, 9.07, 6.22, and 17.2 days when applied at the rate of 75, 70, 100, and 50 g a.i./ha, and 6.73, 9.35, 7.05, and 17.4 days, respectively when applied at double their recomm e n d e d d o s e r a t e s ( R a m a s u b r a m a n i a n 2 0 1 3 ; Ramasubramanian et al 2012Ramasubramanian et al , 2016b. Thus, among the insecticides having label claim against cane termites, bifenthrin with the half-life of 16.4 days comes next to clothianidin, which had the half-life of 17.2 days.…”