Method and apparatus for controlling pests
AssigneeIda Co., Ltd.
InventorColin T. Metcalfe
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Abstract
A method of controlling pests, such as insects, by trapping and/or killing them wherein at least part of a pest to be trapped or killed is exposed to a composition comprising particles containing or consisting of at least one magnetic material.
Claims28
A method of trapping and/or killing pests, such as insects, wherein at least a part of a pest to be trapped or killed is exposed to a particulate composition comprising particles containing or consisting of at least one magnetic material, in combination with one or more pesticides or behaviour modifying chemicals.
A pesticidal composition in particulate form which comprises composite particles each comprising a core of an inert substance having a pesticide or behaviour modifying chemical impregnated thereon or associated therewith and the core being impregnated or coated with a magnetic material.
A pesticidal composition in particulate form which comprises particles containing or consisting of a magnetic material in admixture with a pesticide or behavior modifying chemical or particles of a magnetic material coated with a pesticide or behaviour modifying chemical.
A pesticide composition as claimed in 15 wherein the pesticide or behaviour modifying chemical comprises at least 0.1% by weight of the cores of the particles.
An insect trap which comprises a housing, a zone of the housing or a zone within the housing comprising a magnetically polarized material and the said zone being coated with a composition comprising particles containing or consisting or a magnetic material of opposite polarity to that of the magnetically polarized material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.