Abstract: A method for reducing the rate of degradation of stored agrochemicals, particularly pesticides, is provided which essentially involves incorporating a stabilizing compound into the agrochemical in preparation for storage, with the stabilizing compound selected from the group consisting of a diol and a triol. In the preferred embodiment, a pesticide having the active ingredient METASYSTOX.RTM. has an improved shelf life with the addition of about 2 parts by weight of propylene glycol to about 25 parts by weight of METASYSTOX.RTM..

Abstract: Stabilized pesticide compositions for use particularly as insecticides comprise gallic acid or the propyl ester thereof in combination with an oxime carbamate of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 can be R.sub.2 -R.sub.4 or X; R.sub.2 -R.sub.4 can be H, lower alkyl, lower alkenyl, lower alkynyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl with the proviso that R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may be connected to form a cycloaliphatic ring;R.sub.5 can be R.sub.2 -R.sub.4 or X with the proviso that when R.sub.5 and X are OR.sub.8, SR.sub.8, S(O)R.sub.8, SO.sub.2 R.sub.8, or NR.sub.8 R.sub.9, R.sub.5 and X may be connected to form a heterocyclic ring;R.sub.6 -R.sub.7 can be hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkenyl or lower alkynyl;X=SR.sub.8, S(O)R.sub.8, SO.sub.2 R.sub.8, OR.sub.8, OSO.sub.2 R.sub.8, NR.sub.8 R.sub.9, NO.sub.2, CN, SCN, N.sub.3 or halogen; andR.sub.8 =H, lower alkyl, lower alkenyl lower alkynyl, aryl or substituted aryl, carbamyl, substituted carbamyl, acyl, or substituted acyl; and R.sub.