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US 2012/0148653 A1Published application
Pesticidal compositions and methods of use thereof
AssigneeEcoBlend, LLC
InventorAllen Jones
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InventorAllen Jones
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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.
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An article or region, to which has been applied a pest-combating composition in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion, a water-in-oil emulsion, a micelle formulation, or an aerosol formulation, comprising an effective, pest-combatting amount of sodium lauryl sulfate and one or more C6-12 fatty acids.
A method of combating pests, at a locus containing or susceptible to the presence of same, said method comprising applying to at least a portion of said locus a pest combatting composition, in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion, a water-in-oil emulsion, a micelle formulation, or an aerosol formulation, comprising an effective, pest-combatting amount of sodium lauryl sulfate and one or more C6-12 fatty acids.
A method of killing and/or repelling pests on an article or region in contact with, or susceptible to the presence of same, said method comprising applying to at least a portion of the article or region a pest combatting composition, in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion, a water-in-oil emulsion, a micelle formulation, or an aerosol formulation, comprising an effective, pest-combatting amount of sodium lauryl sulfate and one or more C6-12 fatty acids.
A pest-combatting composition comprising sodium lauryl sulfate, a thixotropic agent or thickening agent, and one or more C6-12 fatty acids.
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