75 results about "Fire ant" patented technology

Pest-combating compositions containing pest-control actives are formulated for sustained pest-combating efficacy, utilizing actives fatty acids, undecanone, and / or soy methyl ester in varying combinations. Pest-combating includes both repellency and killing of pests. In specific formulations, the pest-combating composition includes any one, two or three of the active agents soy methyl ester, fatty acid and undecanone. Fatty acids may be unmodified or may be modified by transesterification or methanolysis of the oleochemical or conversion of the fatty acids to alkyl esters. The composition may be constituted as a spray composition, lotion, paste, or other compositional form. Pests that may be usefully combated with such composition include aphids, ants, bed bugs, bees, beetles, centipedes, caterpillars, chiggers, cockroaches, crickets, cutworms, earwigs, fleas, flies, fire ants, gnats, grasshoppers, hookworms, japanese beetles, june bugs, lice, locust, maggots, mealworms, mealybugs, millipedes, mites, mosquitoes, moths, pillbugs, scorpions, silverfish, spiders, stinkbugs, termites, thrips, ticks, wasps, and white flies.

A pest-combating composition including sodium lauryl sulfate and one or more of C6-12 fatty acids, preferably lauric and / or capric and / or caprylic acid, soy methyl ester, and 2-undecanone, and methods of combating pests utilizing same, are disclosed. The compositions can include a carrier oil such as silicon oil, soy methyl ester, or a vegetable oil, and can be in the form of an emulsion. The composition may be constituted as a spray composition, an aerosol, a lotion, a paste, or another compositional form. Pests that may be usefully combated with such composition include flying insects, including flies, mosquitoes, and wasps, ants, including arthropods such as fire ants, ticks, fleas, cockroaches, silver fish, thrips, gnats, aphids, Japanese beetles, and agricultural and horticultural arthropods and insects including beetles (potato and bean), flea beetles, fleahoppers, squash bugs, slugs, leaf hoppers, harlequin bugs, milk weed bugs, spiders, mites, lice, rodents, and deer.

The invention relates to a poison bait for exterminating red fire ants, belonging to the field of chemical insecticide, which comprises the components with the following weight percent: insecticide technical product 0.5-1.0%, attractant 40-48%, bait carrier 50-60%, preservative 0.5-1.0%, and the insecticide technical product adopts two components of A and B as assistant components, and attrahent adopts three components of animal albumin powder, edible vegetable oil and flavoring agent as assistant components. The inventive bait formulation mixing insecticide technical product and attrahent is strong in attractive effects, good in palatability, stable in field performance, large in moving load, the medicament in the ant group is evenly transmitted to each grade of the red fire ants, ergates can be killed directly, causing grubs to develop irregularly of die, causing queen ants to be sterile or killing the queen ants. The poison bait is friendly on environment, high in security, which is suitable for comprehensive control on the red fire ants in the field, fruit forest, home, school and the like.

An insecticide organic fertilizer composition eradicates insects such as imported fire ants (IFA). The insecticide organic fertilizer composition comprises an aqueous homogenized manure extract having an active ingredient, a surfactant, a solvent, and a fatty acid. Active ingredients include botanical insecticides which are subject to degradation after a preselected period of time upon delivery to a soil area. The botanical insecticide is selected from the group consisting of rotenone, pyrethrum, sabadilla (varatrine), neem (azadirachtin), ryania (ryanodine), and mixtures thereof, with rotenone being the preferable botanical insecticide selected. Advantageously, the combination of these components and component amounts renders the botanical insecticide's active ingredients, including rotenone, stable in the aqueous organic manure extract for a predetermined period of time. During this predetermined period of time, the insecticide organic fertilizer composition biologically interferes with IFA's pheromone distress signals. Upon application of the insecticide organic fertilizer composition to an IFA mound, the IFAs began to exhibit a state of sluggishness and gradually begin to die over time rather than relocating, effectuating effective eradication after treatment. In addition, the biotanical insecticide functions to fertilize and nourish soil near the vicinity of the mound.

The invention relates to a medicine for killing solenopsis invicta buren and the use method thereof. The medicine comprises 0.0025%-5.0000% of insecticidal active constituent according to mass percent, which is selected from one of or the mixture of the following component: fipronil, fluorine insects amines, spinosad, Arab-Israeli (Iraq) ivermectin, vants hydrazone, imidacloprid, rotenone, matrine, Yanggakdo twisting glycosides, cicuta alkali, boric acid; 15%-25% of glucide, 10%-25% of thickening agent, 0.005%-6% of menstruum, 0.01%-0.03% of preservative and the rest of water. The use method of the solenopsis invicta buren baits is that: pouring suitable quantity baits agent into a container with nozzle, and diluting the baits agent with water, then agitating the anthill lightly, and sprinkling the water-based baits agent on the body surface of the ergates and the soil above the anthill surface after a mass of ergates come out of the anthill. The manufacturing process of the medicine is simple, the cost is lower, and the use method is suitable for large-scale spraying.

A pest-combating composition including sodium lauryl sulfate and one or more of C6-12 fatty acids, preferably lauric and / or capric and / or caprylic acid, soy methyl ester, and 2-undecanone, and methods of combating pests utilizing same, are disclosed. The compositions can include a carrier oil such as silicon oil, soy methyl ester, or a vegetable oil, and can be in the form of an emulsion. The composition may be constituted as a spray composition, an aerosol, a lotion, a paste, or another compositional form. Pests that may be usefully combated with such composition include flying insects, including flies, mosquitoes, and wasps, ants, including arthropods such as fire ants, ticks, fleas, cockroaches, silver fish, thrips, gnats, aphids, Japanese beetles, and agricultural and horticultural arthropods and insects including beetles (potato and bean), flea beetles, fleahoppers, squash bugs, slugs, leaf hoppers, harlequin bugs, milk weed bugs, spiders, mites, lice, rodents, and deer.

A composition is disclosed from controlling an insect population including an insect food stuff and an insecticidally effective amount of at least one Gram negative bacteria, viable, dead or alive, and / or an extract thereof, where the composition is applied to an area accessible to the insects and results in insect death. The compositions are ideally suited for the control of fire ants, cockroaches, carpenter ants and termites. For fire ant and cockroach control, the food stuff is a carbohydrate rich material, while for carpenter ant and termite control, the food stuff is a cellulosic rich material. The composition is applied to the area as a single treatment or as a periodic treatment in an amount have from about 5×109 to about 1×1013 bacteria or extracts from that number of bacteria.

A biopesticidal composition for controlling insects (e.g., pecan weevils, the diaprepes root weevil, fall armyworm, fire ants), containing an agriculturally acceptable carrier and an effective insect (e.g., pecan weevils, the diaprepes root weevil, fall armyworm, fire ants) biopesticidal amount of a fungus selected from the group consisting of Beauveria bassiana having the identifying characteristics of Beauveria bassiana NRRL 30593, Metarhizium anisopliae having the identifying characteristics of Metarhizium anisopliae NRRL 30594, Beauveria bassiana having the identifying characteristics of Beauveria bassiana NRRL 30601, Beauveria bassiana having the identifying characteristics of Beauveria bassiana NRRL 30600, or mixtures thereof. Also, a method for controlling insects (e.g., pecan weevils, the diaprepes root weevil, fall armyworm, fire ants), involving applying an effective insect biopesticidal amount of the composition to the insects or to the plants, areas or substrates infested with the insects.

A fire ant trap for eradicating fire ants at a mound includes a domed enclosure having a lower rim peripherally engaging the mound and secured thereat by stakes. A tubular auger is threaded at the top end and has a perforated beveled tip that rotates into the top of the mound. A fire ant agent is dispensed to the tip from an upper fill opening that is sealed by a removable cap.

A method for eradicating fire ants by permeating the soil in a fire ant mound with a combination of very small particles, vegetable oil, and Pyrethrin. The particles tend to infiltrate and disable the joint structure of the ants, eventually killing them. One particularly effective composition includes diatomaceous clay—commonly known as fuller's earth.

A sealant for sealing around electrical conductors and / or conduits extending through an opening in a pad into a transformer housing. The sealant includes an insecticide dispersed throughout the sealant to kill the ants or insects attempting to enter the transformer housing through the pad opening.

The present invention provides a method, apparatus and system for treating fire ant mounds. The invention comprises a pressure vessel for holding water and steam, a water heating coil for heating water and a steam heating coil for heating steam. A heat source contemporaneously heats the water heating coil, the steam heating coil and the pressure vessel. Steam is generated, superheated and is supplied to a probe for applying steam to fire ant mounds. A nozzle containing countersunken ports may be attached to the probe. A sliding hammer to aid insertion and extraction may be fixed to the probe. An articulated protective shroud attached to the probe remains in contact with the ant mound surface.

A bait composition for the control of fire ants based on fact that an ant pyrazine attractant contained therein will attract foraging fire ants and the fire ants will be stimulated by the phagostimulant to eat the bait and distribute active ingredients also contained therein throughout the colony. Furthermore, the bait composition can be used directly or modified as a surveillance composition for monitoring and detecting fire ants based on the fact that a pyrazine attractant contained therein will attract foraging fire ants to a trap containing a fast acting, non-repellent insecticide that keeps attracted workers in the trap as a measure of fire ant presence.

The invention discloses a method for controlling fire ants by using RNA interference and an application in reduction of the insecticide resistance of the fire ants. A dsRNA is designed and synthesized through dsCYP6Al-like and dsCYP4Cl-like CDs areas; the silence effects of a target gene and other homologous P450 genes are determined and the sensitivity of an exogenous compound is determined through a feeding method; and the detoxification metabolism action of the fire ants P450 on the exogenous compound is specified. The silence effects are detected through a qRT-PCR technology. The result shows that the silence effects of RNAi-mediated dsCYP6Al-like and dsCYP4Cl-like on dsCYP6Al-like and dsCYP4Cl-like mRNAs are significant after the dsRNA is fed for 24h; and compared with a control group, the silence efficiency reaches 64.6% and 77.1% separately.

Below ground kits, methods, apparatus and configurations for controlling arthropods such as termites, ants, and roaches. An embodiment has alternating layers of a first layer consisting of a mixture of a non-edible foraging matrix mixed with a slow-acting and non-repellant toxicant, where the first layer is adjacent to another layer of non-toxic edible / attractant materials allow for the treatment of different arthropods. The non-edible foraging matrix can be selected from at least one of: soil, gravel, rocks, pebbles, shale, and mixtures thereof. The nontoxic layer can include materials such as foam and cellulose. Different arthropods such as termites, fire ants, carpenter ants, and roaches can be treated with the subject embodiments.

A mechanized system for exterminating and several embodiments thereof are presented. Steam is generated and transported to a movable applicator. The applicator is positioned over a designated area of ground and the steam is applied exterminating the insects on and / or under the designated area of ground.

Unique Solenopsis invicta viruses (SINV) have been identified and their genome sequenced. Oligonucleotide primers have been developed using the isolated nucleic acid sequences of the SINV. The viruses are used as a biocontrol agent for control of fire ants.

Pest-combating compositions containing pest-control actives are formulated for sustained pest-combating efficacy, utilizing actives fatty acids, undecanone, and / or soy methyl ester in varying combinations. Pest-combating includes both repellency and killing of pests. In specific formulations, the pest-combating composition includes any one, two or three of the active agents soy methyl ester, fatty acid and undecanone. Fatty acids may be unmodified or may be modified by transesterification or methanolysis of the oleochemical or conversion of the fatty acids to alkyl esters. The composition may be constituted as a spray composition, lotion, paste, or other compositional form. Pests that may be usefully combated with such composition include aphids, ants, bed bugs, bees, beetles, centipedes, caterpillars, chiggers, cockroaches, crickets, cutworms, earwigs, fleas, flies, fire ants, gnats, grasshoppers, hookworms, japanese beetles, june bugs, lice, locust, maggots, mealworms, mealybugs, millipedes, mites, mosquitoes, moths, pillbugs, scorpions, silverfish, spiders, stinkbugs, termites, thrips, ticks, wasps, and white flies.

A pesticide consisting of a mixture of sulfur well water and seven edible ingredients, which becomes lethal to fire ants and termites when mixed together, in a liquid, granular, spray or paste form.

A mechanized exterminator and several embodiments thereof are presented. A support disc with rollers attached rotates when power is applied causing rollers to roll over a base. The operation of the of the exterminator disturbs the insects causing them to enter the exterminator where the rollers will crush them. Solar, battery and / or wind power can be used to power the exterminator. The exterminator is cost-effective and environmentally safe. The exterminator severely impacts the strength and health of the colony minimizing its ability to reproduce.

A controlled pesticide delivery system includes a film-forming alkanol solution of at least one amphiphilic polymer and at least one pesticide composition for the treatment of at least one pest in gardens, landscapes, forests, and wooden structures, targeting at least one pest selected from fire ants, tent caterpillars, gypsy moths, wood-boring beetles, and bark beetles during at least one phase of their life cycles.

Unique Solenopsis invicta viruses (SINV) have been identified and their genome sequenced. Oligonucleotide primers have been developed using the isolated nucleic acid sequences of the SINV. The viruses are used as a biocontrol agent for control of fire ants.

This invention is the modification of widely available plastic household plumbing caps to serve as poison bait stations for killing colonies of little fire ants which have infested southern states and Hawaii creating misery for residents due to their bites. The modification consists of inserting into the caps metal screens with wire spacing adequate to allow passage of the tiny ants into the caps but preventing the bait granules from falling out. The bait stations so formed restrict the poison bait access to little fire ant or smaller insects and are protective of the environment and animals.

The invention relates to an agent for killing red imported fire ants and a using method thereof. The red imported fire ant agent contains the following components in percentage by mass: 0.0025 to 10 percent of spinosad, 15 to 25 percent of sugar, 10 to 25 percent of thickener, 0.005 to 6 percent of solvent, 0.01 to 0.03 percent of preservative and the balance of water. The using method of the redimported fire ant agent comprises the following steps of: pouring a proper amount of bait into a container with a nozzle, thinning the bait to the required concentration by adding water, lightly agitating an ant nest, and spraying the liquid bait on the body surfaces of worker ants and the surface soil of an ant hill after a large amount of worker ants rush out. The red imported fire ant agent issimple in production process, convenient for transportation and suitable for large-scale spraying, has low environmental pollution and low harm to an agent applying person, and has no strict requirement for the temperature during applying.

A mechanized exterminator and several embodiments thereof are presented. A drive mechanism operates a support mechanism having rollers attached thereto and which roll over a base, crushing insects such as fire ants. The drive mechanism may be powered by battery or other forms of electricity or may be solar or wind powered. The exterminator is cost-effective and environmentally safe. The exterminator severely impacts the strength and health of the colony minimizing its ability to reproduce.

A Unique Solenopsis invicta virus (SINV 3) has been identified and its genome sequenced. Oligonucleotide primers have been developed using the isolated nucleic acid sequences of the SINV 3. The virus is used as a biocontrol agent for control of fire ants.

The present invention is drawn to a safe, cost-effective, environmentally-friendly and ecologically-sound bioengineered pest eradication product and uses thereof. Immunological and genetic engineering techniques are used to generate monoclonal antibodies as well as viruses (phage) that display scFv heavy and / or light chain Ig fragments which exhibit high-avidity specific binding to cells of the microvilli of the midgut of imported fire ant queens. The specific monoclonal antibodies and phage displayed antibody Fab fragments are conjugated to a toxin for targeted delivery and destruction of imported fire ant queens, but not native species.