Ectopharma Limited

Rentokil Initial Plc

Andrew Carver

John S Campbell

Matthew Green

John Campbell

The present disclosure provides an apparatus for indicating pest activity that includes an activity indicator and an activity sensor. The activity sensor includes a substrate that is a material attractive to a target pest species, and a sensing element formed on and/or within the substrate. The sensing element is couplable to a power source and the activity indicator, and outputs a signal to the activity indicator. The signal is influenced by pest activity on and/or within the substrate, and the activity indicator indicates a state of the signal received from the sensing element. The state of the signal changes responsive to deposit of a pest excretion on the sensing element. The present disclosure also provides a pest activity reporting system incorporating the apparatus that conveys a state of the signal to a remote location. The present disclosure also provides an activity sensor for use in the apparatus.

Apparatus for indicating pest activity

Pesticides based on hydroxy-substituted hydrocarbyl compounds, particularly vicinal diols, are available to control arthropod ectoparasites such as, the, and, by introducing to the locus of an infestation of the pest, a composition containing as active ingredient a vicinal diol.

Pesticides based on vicinal diols

Pesticides based on vicinal diols, are available to control arthropod ectoparasites such as, the, and, by introducing to the locus of an infestation of the pest, a composition containing as active ingredient a vicinal diol.

Pesticides based on vicinal diols, are available to control arthropod ectoparasites such as, the Blattidae,, and, by introducing to the locus of an infestation of the pest, a composition containing as active ingredient a vicinal diol.

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West Lothian, United Kingdom

Andrew Carver