Method and Apparatus for Asphyxiating Arthropods
OwnerGordon Dyerinventor
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Abstract
The present invention is about turning the gaseous envelope that encoats, protects certain arthropods from their external environment against them. It teaches to apply radiation to the arthropods body in order to dysfunction the exacting geometry needed to maintain this protective envelope. This absorbed radiation thus makes the arthropod vulnerable to pesticides and other chemical agents. It also interferes with the arthropods ability to adequately breathe through their plastron covering by forcing it to increase its rate of metabolism via this absorbed radiation.
Claims20
A method of damaging the biological processes of an arthropod having a plastron, functioning proteins, membranes, neurons, and a cellular oxygen respiratory demand, the method comprising:
- irradiating the arthropod with arthropod-absorbable radiation.
An apparatus used to damage plastron-bearing arthropods, comprising:
- a housing that has at least one piece and is capable of defining a confined space and that has interior and exterior surfaces that are capable of having holes;
- at least one of the surfaces is capable of having an anterior and posterior orientation relative to an animal having a cornea, skin, an eyelid margin, and a meibomian gland;
- the surface is capable of movement;
- and, radiation emitters that depend from at least one of the interior surfaces of the housing that direct the emitted radiation interiorly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.