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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2020
Shin-etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a pink bollworm control method that controls pink bollworms by using a mating disruption method to disturb the mating of the pink bollworms. The method including at least: a step in which cotton seedlings are planted in a field 21-41 days after the appearance of adult pink bollworms if said adult pink bollworms are a first generation, or 1-21 days after the appearance of adult pink bollworms if said adult pink bollworms are a second or later generation; and a step in which a controlled-released sexual pheromone formulation including at least Z,Z/Z,E-7,11-hexadecadienyl acetate, which is a pink bollworm sexual pheromone substance, is placed in the field 2-15 days before the predicted adult appearance date for the next generation of adults of said pink bollworms, as derived from effective accumulated temperature, and the sexual pheromone substance in the controlled-release sexual pheromone formulation is released in the field.