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Method for Mosquito Control

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-10-03
MOSQUITOMATE INC
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The present invention is about a formulation that can be used to control insects. It contains a substance that is harmful to young insects, but does not affect adult insects. Specifically, the substance can be a male mosquito or a combination of pyriproxyfen, methoprene, and microbial larvicides. This formulation can prevent young insects from becoming adults, which can help to reduce the number of harmful or disease-causing insects in a certain area.

Problems solved by technology

Existing insecticidal control methods rely upon field technicians, who fail to find and treat many breeding sites, which can be numerous, cryptic and inaccessible.
Unfortunately, the latter fail to treat many breeding sites and are complicated by variable environmental conditions.

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[0016]The present invention is directed to a method and a formulation for mosquito control. The formulation, in one advantageous form, is larvicide treated males. The treated males are generated from medically important adult male mosquitoes obtained via factory-rearing or captured from the wild. As a demonstration of the chemical class of juvenile active insecticides (Table 1), the adult male mosquitoes are exposed to a larvicide, such as pyriproxyfen (PPF), advantageously in a controlled laboratory or factory environment. PPF is a juvenile hormone mimic which interferes with metamorphosis of juvenile mosquitoes and has relatively little impact on adult mosquitoes. Thus, PPF is commonly used as a mosquito larvicide, but is not used as an adulticide.

[0017]The treated males are subsequently referred to as the Direct Treated Individuals (DTI), and this is the insecticidal formulation. The DTI are released into areas with indigenous conspecifics. Male mosquitoes do not blood feed or tr...

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Abstract

A formulation and method for insect control is provided in the form of insecticide carrying insects which can be introduced in a population to thereby control the insect population. The formulation may include artificially generated adult insect carriers of a larvicide in which the larvicide has minimal impact on the adult insect and which larvicide affects juvenile survival or interferes with metamorphosis of juvenile insects to adulthood. The insects may be either male or female and may include mosquitoes.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 477,781, filed Apr. 21, 2011, herein incorporated by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates to a method and a formulation for mosquito control and, in particular, a method and a formulation for mosquito control which includes, but is not limited to, using mosquitoes or other insects for delivering agents, e.g., insecticides such as a larvicide, to an insect population to thereby control the insect population.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Malaria, dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever, West Nile Virus (WNV) and other encephalites, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), human filariasis, dog heartworm and other pathogens important to animals are on the increase. These diseases are transmitted via insects and, in particular, mosquitoes. Methods for controlling mosquito populations include the use of pesticides and vector control methods.[0...

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IPC IPC(8): A01N63/00A01N43/40
CPCA01N25/00A01N43/40A01N63/00A01N43/22A01N43/90A01N47/34A01N49/00A01N57/14A01N63/04A01N65/00A01N65/26A01N47/28Y02A50/30A01N63/22A01N63/23A01N63/40A01N63/10A01N63/30
Inventor DOBSON, STEPHEN
Owner MOSQUITOMATE INC
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