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US 11,140,893 B2Granted
Method for stopping swimming or crawling of adhesion-stage larvae
AssigneeThe Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
InventorsToshiharu Yanagawa, Shinsuke Saito, Keiji Yamashita, Kyoko Kamiya, Yoshio Hayashi
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method of stopping larvae of sessile invertebrates in the settlement stage from swimming or crawling in water, by irradiating light comprising the spectrum of 409 to 412 nm and a part of 400 to 440 nm, to the larvae in the settlement stage.
Claims15
A method of stopping a larva of Pteriomorphia in a settlement stage from swimming or crawling in water, comprising the step of:
- irradiating light consisting of a part of a spectrum of 400 nm to 440 nm to the larva in the settlement stage, wherein the light irradiating the larva in the settlement stage has a peak wavelength in a range between 409 nm and 412 nm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.