104 results about "Insect infestation" patented technology

The present invention is directed to controlling pest infestation by inhibiting one or more biological functions in an invertebrate pest. The invention discloses methods and compositions for use in controlling pest infestation by feeding one or more different recombinant double stranded RNA molecules to the pest in order to achieve a reduction in pest infestation through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic pesticidal agents for use in protecting plants from pest infestation.

The present invention relates to control of pest infestation by inhibiting one or more biological functions. The invention provides methods and compositions for such control. By feeding one or more recombinant double stranded RNA molecules provided by the invention to the pest, a reduction in pest infestation is obtained through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic pesticidal agents for use in protecting plants from pest infestation.

A railroad hopper car discharge gate is assembled from unitary stacked frames that provide unimpeded flow of lading during discharge. A low-wear glide system minimizes friction between the gate panels and other components of the apparatus, and an improved sealing system protects lading from contaminants such as rain, dust and insect infestation and provides enhanced vacuum sealing for greater efficiency during vacuum discharge.

The present invention is directed to controlling pest infestation by inhibiting one or more biological functions in an invertebrate pest. The invention discloses methods and compositions for use in controlling pest infestation by feeding one or more different recombinant double stranded RNA molecules to the pest in order to achieve a reduction in pest infestation through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic pesticidal agents for use in protecting plants from pest infestation.

The invention is directed to a plastic fiber article of manufacture having composite-like high strength characteristics. The article of manufacture can be in the form of a panel or board. The panel or board is constructed from low cost fiber materials, industrial grade or high thermal plastic, and other additives to protect the board or panel from ultraviolet light, fugii growth, excessive heat, fire, insect infestation, and / or weathering. The plastic fiber panel or board may be textured and colored to resemble natural wood such as cedar, walnut, or oak. The plastic fiber panel or board is stronger more durable and may be cheaper than natural wood alternative panels or boards.

The present invention concerns methods for controlling insect infestation via RNAi- mediated gene silencing, whereby the intact insect cell(s) are contacted with a double-stranded RNA from outside the insect cell(s) and whereby the double-stranded RNA is taken up by the intact insect cell(s). In one particular embodiment, the methods of the invention are used to alleviate plants from insect pests. Alternatively, the methods are used for treating and / or preventing insect infestation on a substrate or a subject in need of such treatment and / or prevention. Suitable insect target genes and fragments thereof, dsRNA constructs, recombinant constructs and compositions are disclosed.

This invention relates to an improved pallet for material handling, shipping, packaging and the like. In particular this invention relates to a pallet that is lightweight, strong, recyclable, resistant to insect infestation, and preferably made of paper and glue.

The present invention provides lignin-pesticide complexes, methods for making lignin-pesticide complexes, and methods for treating or controlling insect infestations on animals by administering such complexes. Advantageously, the lignin-pesticide complexes of the present invention can be used in feed-through products to control insect infestation on livestock or pets. Various insects such as face flies, house flies, stable flies, and horn flies can be controlled and treated using the feed-through products of the present invention.

The invention concerns methods for controlling insect infestation via RNAi-mediated gene silencing, whereby the intact insect cell(s) are contacted with a double-stranded RNA from outside the insect cell(s) and whereby the double-stranded RNA is taken up by the intact insect cell(s). In one particular embodiment, the methods of the invention are used to alleviate plants from insect pests. Alternatively, the methods are used for treating and / or preventing insect infestation on a substrate or a subject in need of such treatment and / or prevention. Suitable insect target genes and fragments thereof, dsRNA constructs, recombinant constructs and compositions are disclosed.

Formulations and methods for treating and preventing biotic attack, including disease and insect infestation, in plants are disclosed. The formulations include methyl dihydrojasmonate:Formulations according to embodiments of the invention are particularly suitable for controlling insect infestation and disease in roses.

Bed bug infestations are combated by exposure to a disinfecting atmosphere which includes ozone and hydrogen peroxide, at a relative humidity of at least 30%.

The present disclosure generally relates to a multi-component biocide composition comprising a borate component in combination with an azole component to both inhibit mold fungi, decay fungi, such as brown-rot fungi and white-rot fungi, and to resist insect infestation.

An operating and evaluation circuit of an insect sensor is provided, which has a resistor that is dependent on insect infestation, whereby the circuit during stimulation via a transponder generates a current flow through the resistor, detects a change in the resistor as a change in voltage, and compares it with a predetermined threshold. The circuit includes a transponder-stimulated constant current source, which is connected with the resistor so that a constant voltage drops across the resistor.

A process is provided for making thermoplastic-composites from recycled thermoplastics (polyolefins) together with phosphogypsum waste by-product from the phosphate fertilizer wet process or, in an equally preferred embodiment with fluorogypsum waste by-product from fluorine production wet process to produce lumber profiles. The process involves (a) admixing phosphogypsum (calcium sulfate) and / or fluorogypsum (calcium fluoride) waste byproduct and / or Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) gypsum and / or crude gypsum and / or calcined gypsum with thermoplastics and a functionalized compound with or without coupling agents to produce a filled thermoplastic-composite composition, and (b) melt processing the composition to produce a filled thermoplastic-composite article. The articles are preferably in the form of railroad cross ties or construction articles such as common lumber profiles, panels, tiles, poles, utility poles, crossarms for utility poles, roofing tiles, pipeline skids, pilings, marine fender-piles (including light emitting piles), bulkheads, revetments, and are useful for constructing various structures, such as oilfield board roads and equipment mats. The process avoids the accumulation of undesired phosphogypsum / fluorogypsum “stacks” and provides environmentally friendly useful products which require no chemical preservatives to prevent insect infestation or decay from the elements. Tailings from ore processing can also be used as a filler.

The invention is directed to a plastic fiber article of manufacture having composite-like high strength characteristics. The article of manufacture can be in the form of a panel or board. The panel or board is constructed from low cost fiber materials, industrial grade or high thermal plastic, and other additives to protect the board or panel from ultraviolet light, fugi growth, excessive heat, fire, insect infestation, and / or weathering. The plastic fiber panel or board may be textured and colored to resemble natural wood such as cedar, walnut, or oak. The plastic fiber panel or board is stronger more durable and may be cheaper than natural wood alternative panels or boards.

The invention discloses a Chinese medicinal herb health care silk quilt. A group of Chinese medicinal herb packet which is formed by the following prescriptions is sewed in an inner core interlayer of the silk quilt and the prescriptions comprises (mixed according to parts by weight): 4-8 parts of chrysanthemum, 1-3 parts of ginseng, 6-10 parts of astragalus root, 2-6 parts of rhizoma atractylodes, 4-8 parts of caulis polygoni multiflori, 5-10 parts of nacre and at least one of 4-8 parts of eucommia bark, 2-6 parts of pepper mint, 2-6 parts of calamus, 4-8 parts of honey suckle, 4-8 parts of heartleaf houttuynia herb, 4-8 parts of gentiana cacrophylla, 4-8 parts of winter mulberry leaf, 2-6 parts of largehead atractylodes rhizome, 6-10 parts of poria root, 6-10 parts of danshen root, 1-5 parts of angelica, 1-5 parts of rhizoma ligustici wallichii, 2-6 parts of bitter cardamon, 1-5 parts of milkwort root, 2-6 parts of common dodder, 2-6 parts of dried orange peel, 2-6 parts of pubescent angelica root, 2-6 parts of Chinese clematis root and 4-8 parts of scented tea, after the dust removal, the insect infestation and the cleaning are finished, the processed commercial medicinal materials are soaked with honey, dried, crashed into 120-mesh fine powder and packed into a packet which is then sewed into the inner core of the silk quilt.

The invention provides a fertilizing method for planting cigar tobacco. The fertilizing method comprises the following steps of: firstly, early fertilizing base fertilizer: in 20-30 days before transplanting, trenching on the formed land with the interval of 110cm, the depth of 10-15cm and the width of 8-10cm, uniformly paving the base fertilizer at the bottom of the trench and ridging; secondly, applying seedling protecting fertilizer for transplanting: when small cigar seedlings are transplanted, dissolving ammonium nitrate into water, injecting the mixed solution and pesticide as transplanting water into the root parts of the seedlings, wherein 3-5kg of ammonium nitrate is fertilized in each mu; thirdly, irrigating roots by using seedling restoring fertilizer: in about 7 days after the tobacco seedlings are transplanted, irrigating the roots by using 5-7g / mu of potassium nitrate and an insect infestation resisting pesticide and then covering a layer of fine soil around tobacco roots; fourthly, timely applying seedling eccentric fertilizing; fifthly, digging holes and applying and burying growth flourishing fertilizer and irrigating by matching the growth flourishing fertilizer with biogas slurry; and sixthly, carrying out additional fertilizer and spraying at the mature stage. The fertilizing method disclosed by the invention has the advantages of simplicity in operation, standard specification, strong pertinency and greatly-improved yield and quality of cigar tobacco.

A method of preventing infestation of a bed by creeping insects; said method including the application of a barrier to the legs of said bed; said barrier comprising a disc or layer of material inimical to at least a selection of said creeping insects; said disc or layer interposed between an upper end of each bed leg and the underside surface of a bed base of said bed.

Disclosed is a method of designing, manufacturing, packaging, shipping, otherwise handling and delivering to problem insects a low-toxicity, bio-friendly insect-killing bait in a dry powdery form prior to being dissolved, without precipitate, with water or other solvent by agricultural growers or other end users for utilization by them in the long-term delivery Liquid Gravity Feed Elimination System, LGFAES, or an equivalent weather-sheltered, liquid bait station dispenser for the elimination of a broad range of crop-damaging, or otherwise problem, crawling, walking and flying insects using lateral transfer of the insect killing substance within the bait to reach insects that have not been attracted to the delivery device creating exponential destruction to the targeted insect infestation.

Disclosed are low-toxicity, bio-rational insect baits in dry powdery formulation and related methodology wherein the insect bait compounds are designed, manufactured, packaged, shipped and otherwise handled in a dry powdery bait composition form prior to being mixed and dissolved in water or other solvent, without precipitate, by agricultural growers or other end users to produce a low-toxicity, liquid insect bait effective for utilization in the long-term delivery Liquid Gravity Feed Elimination System, LGFAES, or a equivalent delivery device, for the elimination of a broad range of crop-damaging or otherwise problem crawling, walking and flying insects using lateral transfer of the insect killing substance within the bait to reach insects that have not been attracted to the delivery device creating exponential destruction to the targeted insect infestation.

The acoustic chamber for the detection of insects provides for the acoustic detection of insects living within the trunk of a tree. The chamber includes an annular shell disposed around the trunk of the tree to define an annular acoustic or sound chamber. Acoustic sensors are mounted in the shell walls. The acoustic sensors may be microphones that extend from the shell to be in direct contact with the tree trunk, or microphones spaced apart from the tree trunk, or other suitable acoustic transducers. The acoustic sensors are connected to data processing equipment for analyzing sounds picked up by the sensors for acoustic signals indicative of insect infestation.

Apparatus and methods of packing leaf tobacco preserve the integrity of tobacco, help retain freshness and moisture content of tobacco, and also help eliminate insect infestation. A packing container for leaf tobacco includes a carton, and a flexible, non-porous bag located within the carton. The bag includes a closeable opening through which the bag receives a quantity of tightly packed leaf tobacco. The bag is configured to have air extracted therefrom and to maintain a sub-atmospheric pressure therein.

A crawling insect barrier in which the combination of elements functions as a natural device to prevent ants or other crawling insects from accessing a table, cabinet, storage bin, structure, or any area wherein crawling insect infestation is undesirable. In one embodiment, a feather ring comprises a string (elastic or fixed length) to which natural feathers of various sizes and shapes are fastened, to thereby create a natural barrier or boundary that prevents crawling insects from crossing, and thus inhibiting the insects' ability to carry food, mark a path, build a nest, or infest an area. In another embodiment, a band or strap is used as the underlying surface on which the feathers are attached. If the string, band or strap is not elastic, the crawling insect barrier can be attached with adhesive or some other conventional fastener. The invention also includes a corresponding method of making the natural crawling barrier.

Described is a safe and effective method for treating lice and nits (fleas, ticks and other insects) with a low surface tension chemical formulation.

A method and composition for the method for preventing insect infestation that comprises applying to the area to be protected an effective amount of solid material coated with by treatment with a composition comprising a silicone polymer, and an essential oil. A protective effect by reducing the population of harmful biological pests in the locality to be protected is provided. Protection by penetrating the material to be protected with the silicone polymer and optionally an essential oil is also disclosed.

A railroad hopper car discharge gate is assembled from unitary stacked frames that provide unimpeded flow of lading during discharge. A low-wear glide system minimizes friction between the gate panels and other components of the apparatus, and an improved sealing system protects lading from contaminants such as rain, dust and insect infestation and provides enhanced vacuum sealing for greater efficiency during vacuum discharge.

An insect infestation-blocking filter 300 is inserted into a main punctured container 400 with means to create gap thereunder. Filter 300 is placed on bottom 405 thereof to secure the main container's drain holes 406. An extra punctured container 200 with means to create gap thereunder is then stacked into the main container 400. Extra container's legs 204 stand on the filter 300 and press it down to main container's interior bottom 405. A sieve 100 is placed on top of the extra container 200. Sieve's handles 104 lean on extra container's rim 201. a fast-flow washable filter 300 may be used. Additional containers 200, filters 300 and sieves 100 can be added. Structure and materials allow fast drainage of fluids. All materials are washable, durable and reusable. All parts are removable and replaceable. A proper use yields within minutes easy to see evidence of infestation of small insects concentrated into about 7″ diameter.

An antimicrobial solution for disinfecting or removing micro-organisms from a surface used by animals or for use as an animal shampoo is described. The solution is active against bacteria, fungi, and viruses, including enveloped viruses, and skin disorders related to insect infestation.