58 results about "Bed bug" patented technology

A detection device and method for monitoring infestation by insects such as bed bugs is provided. A suitable device comprises a pair of plates separated by an internal spacing sized to permit entry into the detection device by one or more insects. Also disclosed is a method for readily detecting insects such as bed bugs in a multiple areas such as in multiple hotel rooms, areas where animals are housed, or the like.

A climb-up pitfall trap for attracting and capturing bed bugs and the like comprises a rough exterior surface, a precipice, a smooth interior surface and sensory lures. The sensory lures include heat, carbon dioxide and/or a lure composition. The lure composition comprises a combination of (a) L-lactic acid, and (b) a fatty acid from the group consisting of (1) propionic acid, (2) butyric acid, and (3) valeric acid. The lure composition may also comprise (c) octenol. A method for attracting and capturing bed bugs and the like uses the climb-up pitfall trap in a bed bug infested environment.

A method for attracting bed bugs includes placing a climb-up pitfall trap apparatus that includes a chemical lure composition. The lure composition includes a combination of (a) L-lactic acid, and (b) at least one fatty acid or salt selected from the group consisting of (1) propionic acid, (2) butyric acid, and (3) valeric acid, and (c) 1-octen-3-ol, and (d) a suitable ketone, and (e) a suitable aliphatic sulfide. The trap may also include in conjunction with the lure composition a carbon dioxide source and/or a heat source to compose a lure arrangement.

A bed bug trap includes heat, carbon dioxide and/or semiochemicals (pheromones and/or kairomones), to attract and trap bed bugs. The trap may be combined with the appearance and/or function of another appliance, such as an air freshener. The release of semiochemicals may be combined with the release of air freshening compositions. The bed bug trap may provide one attraction mode, or two attraction modes, namely one which uses heat, carbon dioxide and/or kairomones to attract bed bugs seeking a meal, and the other which uses pheromones to attract bed bugs seeking a safe harbor, i.e. a hiding place. The bed bug trap may be combined with a wide variety of appliances, such as air fresheners, alarm clocks, clock radios, humidifiers, desk or table lamps, power bars, etc..

The bed bug trap has more than one trapping area, each trapping area associated with one or more discrete bed bug sources, such that finding a bed bug in one particular trapping area indicates that the bed bug must have arrived there from one or more specific sources, whereas finding a bed bug in another particular trapping area indicates that the bed bug must have arrived there from one or more other specific sources. The bed bug trap may also be provided with bed bug attracting means, which may include heat, and/or chemical attractants, and/or carbon dioxide. In some embodiment, the bottom surface of the trapping area may be sloped towards one or more accumulation areas for easier inspection.

A device for entrapping crawling insects such as bed bugs, ants, spiders, etc. is disclosed. The device generally includes an elongated strip having at least one cavity longitudinally propagating along the strip and an insect-immobilizing substance disposed in the cavity. In embodiments, the strip may be fabricated for affixing and/or snug or snap fitting to objects being protected from the crawling insects, and the cavities may contain adhesives (e.g., gelatinous-based adhesives), pesticides, or a combination thereof.

The present invention describes a bug interception device that is designed to capture crawling bugs, for example, arthropods such as bed bugs, as they walk around an infested structure. One or more embodiments of the present disclosure may be found in a circular device, for example, a device with a circular footprint as it sits on the floor. One or more embodiments of the present disclosure may be found in a pyramid device, for example, a device with a square footprint and a three dimensional shape resembling a pyramid. One or more embodiments may include one or more outer access surfaces adapted to allow bugs to crawl up onto the device. One or more embodiments may include one or more rims adapted to cause bugs to fall into a capture well.

Disclosed herein are devices and methods for the chemical-based thermal control of pests, particularly bed bugs. Disclosed herein are devices capable of heat generation for thermal-based pest control within an enclosed body, typically an item of luggage. Disclosed herein are components for minimizing heat loss associated with thermal-based pest control. Disclosed herein are methods of chemical-based heat generation for thermal-based pest control.

An autonomous drone integrated with wide bandwidth, high energy acoustic wave generators sent to evict and eradicate agricultural pests within a patrolling area. The drone hovering close to a plant bombards its leaves and fruits with high energy acoustic waves via frequency and tone determined by an onboard synthesizer through acoustic power amplified to drive the sideways and bottom mounted acoustic wave generators. Agricultural pests such as caterpillar, beetle and the like are bombarded with powerful acoustic waves causing their bodies to vigorously vibrate and resonate with synthesizer frequency to dislodge or kill the pests. Other insects such as moths are forced airborne by a propeller's strong downdraft and are electrocuted by integrated high voltage screens. Inside a hotel room, the drone hovers close to a surface of a bedding mattress, bombarding the surfaces with powerful acoustic waves tuned to frequencies that cause bed bugs to resonate and die.

The invention is in the technical field of insect control and relates to the use of a compound comprising a polyfluorobenzyl moiety for controlling insecticide-resistant pests such as mosquitoes and bed bugs.

The invention relates to a sleep accessory for catching bed bugs, having a closed frame for supporting at least one person, a base being arranged on the frame, which base closes the frame on one side, wherein at least one bed bug trap is arranged on the frame, which bed bug trap continuously encloses the entire frame, a peripheral groove being arranged on upper edges of the frame. According to the invention, all the inner frame sides of the frame and an inner base side of the base and a transition region from the inner base side to the inner frame sides are substantially gap- and/or crack-free, in particular smooth, and the bed bug trap is arranged on a base of the groove.

Killing of bed bugs is accomplished by bringing the bed bugs into contact with a toxic amount of at least one of the compounds of the structure (I)

wherein

X is —OH, ═0, or —O(O)CR, wherein R is selected from H and a branched or straight chain, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbyl group with zero to three double bonds and from 1 to 11 carbon atoms;

R₁ is H or CH₃;

• • R₂ is H or CH₃;
  • R₃ is H or a branched or straight chain, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbyl group with zero to three double bonds and from 1 to 11 carbon atoms; and

wherein the compounds of structure (I) contain from 6 to 20 total carbon atoms in the compounds.