A variety of agricultural uses (<100 crops) including vegetables, tree fruits, grapes, other fruits, tree nuts, beans, potatoes, corn, soybeans, other oilseeds, wheat, other cereal grains, and cotton. Other uses include nursery uses.
Xylem-mobile. According to Cranshaw (n.d.), dimethoate moves readily into the sap stream after foliar application, and has soil systemic activity. Longer persistence has been reported by Lewis and Tzilvakis (2017) for dimethoate residues in or on plants (half-life 29 days) than indicated in the persistence half-life field, which reports terrestial field dissipation.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2015. Registration Review - Preliminary Ecological Risk Assessment for Dimethoate. 144 pp. Also, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2021. ECOTOX User Guide: ECOTOXicology Knowledgebase System. Version 5.3. Available: http:/www.epa.gov/ecotox/
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2015. Registration Review - Preliminary Ecological Risk Assessment for Dimethoate. 144 pp. Also, Cranshaw, W. n.d. “Management Recommendations for Insect Pests of Trees and Shrubs.” XCM-38. Colorado State University Cooperative Extension. 78 pp.
Lewis, K.A., J. Tzilivakis, D. Warner, and A. Green. 2016. An international database for pesticide risk assessments and management. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal 22(4):1050-1064. . Also, Lewis, K. and J. Tzilivakis. 2017. Development of a Data Set of Pesticide Dissipation Rates in/on Various Plant Matrices for the Pesticide Properties Database (PPDB). Data 2(3):28.