Bed bug monitoring device
A monitoring device and bed bug technology, which can be used in devices for capturing or killing insects, animal husbandry, adhesives, etc., and can solve problems such as ineffective performance.
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Embodiment 1
[0059] A test arena was constructed from a 60x40x22 cm (L:W:H) polystyrene container. A 60x40 cm piece of filter paper was glued to the bottom to provide a travel surface for bed bugs. At one end of the test platform, a triangular piece of plastic (16 cm high x 25 cm long) was glued halfway between the sides and bottom of the container to create an equal area partition on both sides of the partition. On each side of this divider, place a Ducts to deliver compressed air at a predetermined rate down to the basement which acts as a bedbug trap area. The gap between the top and bottom of the trap area is 2.5 mm.
[0060] The control trap did not contain any bait, while the test trap included two one hundred microliter pipettes. One end of each pipette (Drummond Wiretrol 100 microliters) was sealed with parafilm and the other end was left open. The first pipette contained a 300 ppm solution comprising hexenal and octenal in a weight ratio of 75:25, prepared by dissolving the a...
Embodiment 2
[0065] Using a platform similar to that described in Example 1, using a Figure 1-3 A series of experiments were performed with the bedbug monitor at the dwelling shown in . The bait used was octenal (trans-2-octen-1-al) (3.8 ml of octenal dissolved in 1.393 ml of nonane). In each experiment, 50 bedbugs were placed in the platform and after 2 hours the number of bedbugs present in the dwelling was recorded. The exposed area (ie the traversable surface of the dwelling (formed of ABS plastic film)) was modified as described below.
[0066] As a comparison, Example A was carried out as follows: using the same bait, with traps of deadwood stacks contained within the cover enclosure, but without stops. Each experiment was performed in duplicate and the average results of the two experiments are contained in the table below.
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[0068] The cement / kaolin binder mixture was prepared by adding 30 grams of kaolin clay (average particle size 5-10 microns) to 100 ml of the mi...
Embodiment 3
[0071] 1.5 inch by 2.0 inch flat specimens were prepared by molding polypropylene ("PP-G") containing 20% by weight glass particles. use marl pocket Portable Surface Roughness Meter (Mahr Pocket portable roughness gage) to measure the average surface roughness of the sample. Place the sample on the tilt fixture at an angle of about 70 degrees. An adult bed bug (temperate bed bug) was placed in the center of the sample and visually monitored for about 5 minutes to determine if the bed bug was able to walk / crawl on the surface, or failed to remain on the surface and dropped.
[0072] Additional samples consisting of polyethylene (“PE”), polypropylene (“PP”) that had been sanded with 100 grit sandpaper, and high density polyethylene (35 melt) (“HDPE”) were also evaluated. "). The results of said evaluation are as follows:
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[0075]The above results show that bedbugs can crawl on surfaces with an average surface roughness of at least about 2.5 micro...
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