Clayton Lanark™ – Aphid control in potatoes.
Posted on 03 July 2025
Clayton offers a wide choice of leading products for potato crops this season. Achieving optimal crop yields relies on effective, early intervention and control of damaging pests.
- Careful planning and product choice will help growers achieve the best results for potato crops this season.
- Reliable, high-performance insecticide targeting cost-effective aphid control to keep input spend down and profitability up.
- Protection against aphids can help to reduce significant damage to yield and quality via prevention of the transmission of plant viruses in your crops including Potato Leaf roll Virus (PLRV) and Potato Virus Y (PVY).
Quick Guide Product Profile: Clayton Lanark™
A powerful, high-loaded formulation for aphid control. An ideal choice for potato crops.
Active Ingredient: 100 g/L lambda-cyhalothrin.
Formulation: CS (Capsule suspension) formulation
Pack size: 1 Litre
Use rate and timing: (Foliar spray) – apply at 75 ml/ha for a maximum of 4 applications per crop at minimum 7-day spray intervals, in at least 400 L/ha water volume. Use sufficient water volume to ensure thorough crop penetration. Timing: apply according to specialist advice at egg hatch and repeat 10-14 days later. The latest time of application is 8 weeks before harvest.
Target pests: Aphids, including Peach-potato aphid (Myzus persicae), Potato aphid (Macrosiphum euphorbiae) and others.
Clayton can provide valuable choice for your insecticide programmes to tackle pests in potato crops this season. All our generic products have been developed, authorised and manufactured in Europe to guarantee the highest quality formulation and performance.
Get in touch with our Technical Team:
Will Ridgewell- Commercial Manager: will@claytonpp.com
Martyn Rogers – Product Development Manager – martyn@claytonpp.com