with 0 025 tween 20 in h2o diluents to obtain the solution at 200 ppm test compound a hand held aspirator type sprayer was used for spraying a solution to both sides of cotton leaves until runoff reference plants solvent check were sprayed with the diluent only containing 10 by volume of acetone solvent treated plants were held in a holding room for 9 days at approximately 25 u00b0 c and ambient relative humidity rh prior to grading evaluation was conducted by counting the number of live 3 4 nymph stage per plant under a microscope percent control was measured by using abbott 39 s correction formula w s abbott u201c a method of computing the effectiveness of an insecticide u201d j econ entomol 18 1925 pp 265 267 as follows the results are indicated in the table entitled u201c table 2 biological data for green peach aphid myzupe and sweetpotato whitefly crawler wf bemita u201d see table section the following examples serve to explain embodiments of the present invention in more detail these examples should not be construed as being exhaustive or exclusive as to the scope of this invention these examples are for illustration purposes and are not to be construed as limiting the disclosure to only the embodiments disclosed in these examples starting materials reagents and solvents that were obtained from commercial sources were used without further purification anhydrous solvents were purchased as sure seal u2122 from aldrich and were used as received melting points were obtained using a thomas hoover unimelt capillary melting point apparatus or an optimelt automated melting point system from stanford research systems and are uncorrected examples using u201c room temperature u201d were conducted in climate controlled laboratories with a temperature ranging from.