American Cyanamid Company

Fmc Corporation

Other

Basf Aktiengesellschaft

University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.

Alltech Associates, Inc.

American Cyanamid

Eldex Laboratories, Inc.

U. of Ga Research Foundation

Bruce Christian Black

Linda Varanyak

Neil Robert Picha

Lois K Miller

Peter Michael Dierks

Shreya Sheth

Nancy C Fleming

James M Anderson, Jr

Raaidah Saari-Nordhaus

Washington Mendoza

Josef Bystron

William R Baumbach

Michael P Beluch

Albert Laurence Lu

Keith F Woodruff

Carl Hermann Poppe

Michael Frank Treacy

Jonathan Mark Thompson

Sheldon J Nelson

Stephen F Donovan

Martin H Taylor

Max D Summers

Dirk Helgemo

Nathan D Caldwell

Dina L Richman

Robert B Albright

Fakhruddin Ahmed

Dennis K Mc Creary

Guanglin Sun

Jeffrey P Blancuzzi

Kristine Olsen

Kenneth W Johnson

Michael J Manning

Shreya J Shah

Martin Kreitman

In one aspect, this invention relates to pest repellent composition comprising a fatty acid and an anthranilate ester. In another aspect, this invention relates to a method of repelling pests employing such composition.

Insect repellent

In one aspect, this invention relates to a nematode repellent composition comprising an effective nematode repellent amount of a fatty acid and an anthranilate ester. In another aspect, this invention relates to a method of repelling nematodes employing such composition.

Nematode repellent composition

Methods and apparatus for moving aliquot samples of fluid using a shuttle valve are disclosed.

Methods and apparatus for moving aliquot samples of fluid

A fluidic processor includes a first sealing member having a first sealing face, a first compressive face and at least one first sealing member fluid conduit; a second sealing member having a second sealing face, a second compressive face and at least one second sealing member fluid conduit; the second sealing face of the second sealing member being sealingly and slidingly engaged in a substantially fluid tight manner with the first sealing face of the first sealing member; and at least one actuator mechanically engaging at least one of the first sealing member and the second sealing member, or an XY stage, or mechanism that provides motion in two axes on one sealing member only.

Fluidic processor and method of use

A multi-mode injection valve includes a stator having an outer stator face and an inner stator face; a plurality of fluid ports in the outer stator face; a plurality of fluid orifices in the inner stator face, the fluid orifices disposed in fluid communication with the fluid ports, respectively; a rotor having a rotor surface engaging the inner stator face of the stator; a plurality of rotor grooves in the rotor surface of the rotor, each of the rotor grooves adapted for fluid communication with a pair of the fluid orifices depending upon a rotational or angular position of the rotor with respect to the stator; and an actuator unit engaging the rotor, the actuator unit adapted to rotate the rotor relative to the stator.

Multi-mode injection valve

The present invention provides an environmentally safe and highly effective method for killing bed bugs by enclosing infested items, belongings or possessions in a sealed container along with a small amount of certain solvents, the vapors of which kill bed bugs that are present.

Controlling bed bugs with solvent vapors

In one aspect, the present invention is directed to an ampoule for the storage and dispersion of a volatile liquid comprised of (a) an outer shell composed of an impermeable material and defining at least one opening; (b) a porous diffusion member defining an internal reservoir positioned inside said outer shell; (c) a volatile liquid contained within such internal reservoir; and (d) a film member adhered to the outer shell and covering the at least one opening; wherein the film member is disposed such that an air space is present between the porous diffusion member and the film member; and wherein the porous diffusion member is configured such that molecules of the volatile liquid can only enter into the air space via diffusion through the porous diffusion member. Such ampoules are particularly suited for the storage and dispersion of organic chemicals useful as bed bug attractants, such as a C-Calkane. In another aspect, this invention is directed to a device adapted to receive one or more of such ampoules. In one preferred embodiment, such device is a bed bug capturing device.

Ampoule for the storage and dispersion of volatile liquids

The present invention relates to a chemical composition and method of generating carbon dioxide for use with an insect monitor and/or capture device comprising:

Effervescent composition for improved carbon dioxide generation in insect monitor devices

Methods and apparatus for analyzing a sample using at least one detector are disclosed.

Methods and apparatus for analyzing samples and collecting sample fractions

The present invention provides improved coated pesticidal matrices and a process for their preparation. The present invention also provides a wettable powder pesticidal composition containing the improved coated pesticidal matrices.

Pesticidal matrices

The present invention provides a method to control parasitic and saprophagous mites on beneficial insects such as honeybees via the application of a parasiticidally or saprophagouscidally effective amount of a mitochondrial electron transport inhibitor or a pyrimidine compound of formula I.

Parasitic and saprophagous mite control in beneficial insects

Provided herein are genetically engineered baculoviruses which express insect-specific toxins, preferably paralytic neurotoxins, under the regulatory control of strong promoters expressed early after infection and in a wide variety of insect cells. Particularly preferred insect-specific paralytic neurotoxins are those of insect-predacious mites, including Pyemotes. The genetically engineered baculoviruses of the present invention are improved over prior art viruses in that they produce efficacious insect-toxic levels of the neurotoxin at earlier times after infection, particularly in comparison to baculoviruses in which the toxin is expressed under the control of a polyhedrin or granulin promoter. Insect-toxic compositions are also provided and methods of insect control using these compositions are described.

Biological insect control agents expressing insect-specific toxin genes, methods and compositions

The present invention provides a method to control parasitic mites on beneficial insects, such as honeybees, via the application of a parasiticidally effective amount of tebufenpyrad.

Parasitic mite control on beneficial insects

Insect viruses capable of killing at least one target insect pest quicker than previously described viruses and methods for conferring that phenotype of faster killing are provided. Further improvement in the speed of killing is obtained when the virus of this invention also contains a nonfunctional egt gene to reduce feeding by the infected larvae, inhibit growth and further mediate the earlier death of the infected insect and/or it also contains and expresses a DNA sequence encoding an insect-specific toxin. The faster killing phenotype is achieved by inactivating an ORF 603 of AcMNPV or an ORF 603 homolog of a different species of baculovirus. Improved insecticidal compositions and improved methods of controlling insects are also included within the scope of this invention.

Insecticidal compositions and methods

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Yardley, PA, United States of America

Bruce Christian Black