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Isca Technologies, Inc.

University of California

Agenor Mafra-Neto

Rodrigo Oliveira Da Silva

Carmem R Bernardi

William H Urrutia

Josue Isaias Ponce

Roy Bridges

Rafael Borges

David Joaquin Harris

David M Harris

Reginald R Coler

Leyza Paloschi De Oliveira

Eamonn Keogh

Compositions and methods for affecting. The compositions are kairomone blends that attract male and female. The compositions may further include a pesticide.

Methods and compositions for controlling tomato leaf miner,

Compositions and methods for affecting Hemiptera. The compositions contain an alkyl ester of (2,4)-decadienoic acid. The compositions attract Hemiptera. The compositions may further include a toxicant.

Compositions and methods to manage hemiptera

Compositions and methods for repelling coleopterans. The compositions contain a substrate and an anti-aggregation pheromone intermixed within the substrate. The pheromone may be verbenone, methyl salycylate, wintergreen oil, or combinations thereof.

Compositions and methods for repelling coleopterans

Compositions and methods for affecting dipteran hematophagous parasites. The compositions contain at least one dipteran semiochemical and at least one phagostimulant. The compositions may further include a pesticide. The semiochemical may be a floral attractant and the phagostimulants may be sugar-based. The compositions may be useful in attracting mosquitoes and/or repelling sand flies.

Compositions and methods for attracting mosquitoes and repelling sand flies

Compositions and methods for repelling coleopterans. The compositions contain a substrate and an anti-aggregation pheremone intermixed within the substrate. The pheremone may be verbenone, methyl salycylate, wintergreen oil, or combinations thereof.

Methods and compositions in which botanical oils, such as wintergreen oil, and/or isolated methyl salicylate are combined with an attractant matrix (pellets) and applied near a nest of leaf-cutting ants. These oils possess fungicidal and fungistatic properties that destroy and inhibit growth of the ant-cultivated fungus&#x2014;the ant colony's sole food source&#x2014;thereby promoting destruction of the colony. These oils are also highly attractive to the ants, exerting no repellent effects, encouraging transport of the fungicidal materials into the nest and ensuring that the fungal colonies come into contact with the materials and suffer mortality.

Methods and compositions for controlling leaf-cutting ant populations

Systems, apparatuses, and methods of classifying flying insects. The methods utilize recording the wingbeat frequency and amplitude spectrum of flying insects and comparing them to known or created insect models to properly classify the flying insect. The error rate of the classification is reduced by utilizing multiple inputs to the classification system, which may include a precise circadian rhythm for the time of year, current environmental conditions, and flight velocity or direction.

Systems and methods for classifying flying insects

Compositions and methods for repelling coffee berry borer. The compositions contain a substrate and a semiochemical capable of affecting the coffee berry borer intermixed within the substrate. The semiochemical may be verbenone.

Compositions and methods for repelling coffee berry borer

The present invention discloses systems and methods for controlling arthropod populations. The systems include a polymeric substrate, a semiochemical that is reactive upon an adult-stage arthropod, and an insecticide that is toxic to an immature-stage arthropod. The semiochemical may be a sex pheromone that disrupts mating behavior of the adult-stage arthropod. The insecticide may be a per os insecticide that only affects the immature-stage arthropod. The arthropod to be controlled may be gypsy moths, in which case the semiochemical may be disparlure and the insecticide may be spinosad. Further disclosed are methods for preparing systems for use in controlling arthropod populations.

Dual action organic formulation to control two stages of insect pests

The present invention is an arthropod trap including a housing and containment chamber. The housing includes external openings, an overhang, and an internal tube and plate with entry ports. Attracted by bait in the containment chamber, arthropods fly in through the external openings, and then travel through the entry ports in the plate into the containment chamber. Alternatively, arthropods can directly enter the containment chamber through optional entry ports. The containment chamber can be a box or other rigid container, or a bag. This trap can be used to contain or monitor the populations of many different types of flying arthropods, including but not limited to flies, wasps, and yellow jackets.

Arthropod containment trap

In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a method of pest management by a grower. The method includes gathering pest sampling data in connection with a crop of the grower. The pest sampling data includes pest identification information gathered using a pest identification sensor. The pest sampling data further includes locational information thereof. The method further includes transmitting the gathered pest sampling data to a pest sampling database. The pest sampling database includes pest sampling data regarding respective crops from a plurality of other growers. The pest sampling database is in electrical communication with pest management analysis software for generation of pest management analysis. The method further includes electronically receiving the generated pest management analysis.

Method for pest management using pest identification sensors and network accessible database

Arthropod trap housing

In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a method of pest management and crop certification of crops by a grower. The method includes gathering pest sampling data in connection with a crop of the grower, the pest sampling data including locational information thereof. The gathered pest sampling data is transmitted to a pest sampling database. The pest sampling database includes pest sampling data regarding respective crops from a plurality of other growers. The pest sampling database is in electrical communication with pest management analysis software for generation of pest management analysis which is received by the grower. The crop is harvested and a crop certification is received regarding the crop based upon the generated pest management analysis.

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Riverside, CA, United States of America

Agenor Mafra-Neto