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US 5,927,004 AGranted
Beneficial insect compositions and method of making same
OwnerRussell Stockerinventor
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The compositions of the invention are the in-situ prepared spray coated beneficial insects, which may be the beneficial insect alone, or within the confines of a host. The method of making the compositions of this invention relates to the mixing of a binder solution with a predertermined quantity of a beneficial pest for either direct delivery onto a plant or the collection thereof onto a substrate for strategic relocation in futuro. All of these activities can be carried out by introducing the beneficial insects into a hopper, metering the addition thereof into an airstream using a spur gear or other limiting device, introducing mucilage or some other non-lethal binder onto the moving insects and ejecting the binder coated insects into an airstream for delivery to a target, a specific plant, or to a piece of paper or other stratum.
A method of coating parasitized insect eggs with a binder solution which method comprises:
A method of coating an insect member selected from the group consisting of parasitized insect eggs and beneficial insects with a binder solution which comprises:
A method of coating an insect member selected from the group consisting of parasitized insect eggs and beneficial insects with a binder solution which comprises metering an insect member into a moving airstream, monitoring the metering of the member to ensure an even flow, injecting a binder solution into the airstream to coat the insects, expelling the coated insect member from the airstream without collection.
A method of coating parasitized insect eggs with a binder solution, which method comprises:
A method of coating live beneficial insects with a binder solution which method comprises:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.