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US 8,834,908 B2Granted
Pesticidal compositions and methods of use thereof
AssigneeHoms, LLC
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.
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 and wherein said pests comprise a pest selected from the group consisting of bed bugs, flies, mosquitoes, wasps, ants, ticks, fleas, cockroaches, silver fish, thrips, gnats, chiggers, aphids, Japanese beetles, mites, potato beetles, bean beetles, flea beetles, fleahoppers, squash bugs, slugs, leaf hoppers, harlequin bugs, milk weed bugs, spiders, lice, rodents, and deer,
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 an essential oil, sodium lauryl sulfate and one or more C6-12 fatty acids, wherein the essential oil is selected from the group consisting of peppermint oil, menthol, citral, lemongrass oil, and cedar oil wherein the fatty acids comprise one or more of lauric, capric or caprylic acid and wherein said pests comprise a pest selected from the group consisting of bed bugs, flies, mosquitoes, wasps, ants, ticks, fleas, cockroaches, silver fish, thrips, gnats, chiggers, aphids, Japanese beetles, mites, potato beetles, bean beetles, flea beetles, fleahoppers, squash bugs, slugs, leaf hoppers, harlequin bugs, milk weed bugs, spiders, lice, rodents, and deer.
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