System and method for orchard pest control
OwnerJason FERRYinventor
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Abstract
A tarp system for controlling psylla and other orchard pests that includes two or more tarps sized and shaped to fit the width of an orchard row, a roller with handle, a container, oil, a pole apparatus for dislodging pests, and a broom. A method for using the tarp system includes grounding a first tarp below a tree, saturating a roller with oil in the container, rolling oil onto the tarp with the roller, and tapping tree branches over the tarp to dislodge pests on to the tarp, placing a second tarp slightly under the first tarp, sweeping debris from the first tarp to the second tarp, and disposing of the second tarp.
Claims19
A system for treating an orchard for pear psylla pests, the orchard having at least one pear tree, the system comprising:
- oil;
- two or more tarps sized and shaped to fit a width of an orchard row;
- a paint roller with a handle;
- a container sized and shaped to receive the paint roller and the oil;
- a beating pole apparatus sized and shaped for use in manually dislodging psylla pests from the at least one pear tree;
- and
- a tool to clean a second tarp of the two or more tarps.
A method for using a tarp system to control psylla pests in an orchard having at least one pear tree, the tarp system including oil, a tapping tarp sized and shaped to fit a width of an orchard row, a paint roller with a handle, a container sized and shaped to receive the paint roller and the oil, a beating pole apparatus sized and shaped for use in manually dislodging psylla pests from the pear tree, and a push broom, the method comprising:
- spreading the tapping tarp across the ground at a bottom of a tree;
- attaching a pole to the tarp for easy handling;
- filling the container with the oil;
- placing a paint roller into the container until the paint roller is saturated;
- rolling the oil-coated paint roller onto the tapping tarp to coat the tapping tarp with a layer oil;
- and
- tapping on leading branches from the tree that hang over the tarp with the beating pole at least once or twice towards ends of leaders on the tree branches to dislodge the psylla onto the tapping tarp.
A catchment wall system for addressing pear psylla in an orchard having at least one tree, the system comprising:
- an orchard speed sprayer;
- oil suitable to be dispensed from the orchard speed sprayer;
- a mobile trailer;
- and
- a portable screen coupled to the mobile trailer and sized and shaped to be positioned in spaced parallel relationship with the speed sprayer.
A method of using a catchment wall system that includes an orchard speed sprayer;
- oil suitable to be dispensed from an orchard speed sprayer, a mobile trailer, and a portable screen coupled to the mobile trailer sized and shaped to be positioned in spaced parallel relationship with the speed sprayer, the method comprising:
- attaching the portable screen to the mobile trailer, the trailer configured to be pulled or pushed by a tractor in an orchard row;
- loading oil into the speed sprayer;
- positioning the speed sprayer and the catchment wall in spaced parallel relationship on opposing sides of a row of trees in the orchard;
- and
- activating the speed sprayer to spray oil through the tree and onto the portable screen simultaneous with the speed sprayer and portable screen moving in unison down their respective paths.
A wall system for treating an orchard for pear psylla pests, the orchard having at least one pear tree, the wall system comprising:
- a wall mounted on a first movable platform, the wall having an exposed face with a screen mesh configured to entrap the pear psylla pest upon contact of the pear psylla pest with the exposed face;
- and
- a portable sprayer mounted on a second movable platform, the portable sprayer configured to spray an oil and generate a wind on the at least one pear tree with a force to dislodge the pear psylla pest from the at least one pear tree and blow the dislodged pear psylla pest onto the screen mesh on the wall and entrap the pear psylla pest on the screen mesh.
A method of using a catchment wall system that includes a mobile speed sprayer on a first mobile trailer;
- oil suitable to be dispensed from the sprayer, a second mobile platform having a vertical catchment wall with a portable screen, the method comprising:
- attaching the portable screen to the mobile trailer, the trailer configured to be pulled or pushed by a tractor in an orchard row;
- loading oil into the speed sprayer;
- positioning the speed sprayer and the catchment wall in spaced parallel relationship on opposing sides of a row of trees in the orchard;
- and
- activating the speed sprayer to spray oil through the tree and onto the portable screen simultaneous with the speed sprayer and portable screen moving in unison down their respective paths.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.