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To: Ron who wrote (48939)11/22/2025 12:47:30 PM
From: S. maltophilia  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 49016
 
The chemicals mentioned:

cyclobutrifluram: Cyclobutrifluram acts by inhibiting mitochondrial complex II electron transport and succinate dehydrogenase inhibition (SDHI).

sciencedirect.com

en.wikipedia.org

The paper above seems to claim it's harmless, but

Declaration of competing interest
The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: All authors are employed by Syngenta who manufacture and market cyclobutrifluram.
Acknowledgements
All work in this paper was funded by Syngenta. The authors would like to thank the staff at BioChem agrar (Gerichshain, Germany) for the conduct of the soil organism studies and the honeybee studies with formulations and staff at Eurofins (Niefern-Oschelbronn, Germany) for the conduct of the honeybee studies with the active ingredient.

isocycloseram: It's story may be more marketable:

...Among the most concerning harms from isocycloseram is reduced testicle size, lower sperm count, and liver toxicity. While the agency found that people would not be exposed to enough isocycloseram in their diet to cause these harms, it opted not to implement a child-safety buffer to account for the fact that children are more sensitive to ....

biologicaldiversity.org

Isocycloseram:https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/87323565

Cyclobutrifluram: pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov