Phorate is a stable, clear, pale yellow mobile liquid. Phorate is soluble and miscible with carbon
tetrachloride, dioxane, vegetable oils, xylene, alcohols, ethers, and esters. Phorate get hydrolysed
in the presence of moisture and by alkalis, toxic oxides of carbon, sulphur, and phosphorus.
Phorate may be used in foliar or soil treatments on alfalfa, barley, beans, brassicas, coffee,
corn, cotton, grapes, hops, lettuce, oats, peanuts, potatoes, rice, sorghum, soybeans, sugarcane,
sugar beets, tomatoes, watermelon, wheat, and on ornamentals and pine nursery stock. Phorate
has applications for the control of a wide variety of crop pests such as mites, aphids, greenbugs,
thrips, leafhoppers, sorghum shoot fly, leaf miners, corn rootworms, psyllids, cutworms,
Hessian fly, foliar nematodes, wireworms, flea beetles, whiteflies, pine tip moth, and others.
