Method and compositions for inhibiting the scent tracking ability of biting midges
AssigneesBioSensory, Inc., Bedoukian Research, Inc., The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
InventorsJames A. Nolen, Robert H. Bedoukian, Robert E. Maloney, Daniel L. Kline
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Abstract
The ability of biting midges to locate a target by olfactory emissions of the target is inhibited by dispensing into a spatial area an inhibiting effective amount of at least one inhibiting compound selected from the group consisting of 3-methyl-1-alkene-3-ols of the formula: and 3-methyl-1-alkyn-3-ols of the formula: wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group containing from 1 to about 12 carbon atoms.
Claims19
A method of inhibiting the ability of biting midges to sense a target by olfactory sensing of the target within a three dimensional environmental space having a land or base surface area, the method comprising dispensing into the atmosphere of the three dimensional environmental space where biting midges are present in or expected to be near said space an inhibiting effective amount of at least one inhibiting compound selected from the group consisting of 3-methyl-1-alkene-3-ols of the formula:
- and 3-methyl-1-alkyn-3-ols of the formula:
- wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group containing from 1 to about 12 carbon atoms.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.