Flupyradifurone(FPF) is a novel butenolide insecticide developed for foliar, soil and seed treatment applications (Nauen et al., 2015). FPF was commercially introduced to the market in 2014 as an integrated pest management (IPM)-friendly tool (Bordini et al., 2021), and is registered for use in a wide variety of fruit and vegetable crops and defined broad acre crops. It targets some of the world′s most destructive sucking pests including aphids, psyllids, scales, leafhoppers, mealy bugs, and is particularly important for the control of whiteflies such as Bemisia tabaci, a vector of serious phytopathogenic viruses such as tomato yellow leaf curl virus and cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus (Castle et al., 2017; Roditakis et al., 2017).
