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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2000
Carl D. Contadini, Terryville, CT (US);
Nicholas A. Velezis, Middlebury, CT (US);
John J. Dean, Oxford, CT (US);
Waterbury Companies, Inc., Waterbury, CT (US);
Abstract
An insect bait station comprising a housing having an outer wall forming an opening therein and a region therein to receive an insect bait formulation, a cover, securable to the housing, and having an outer surface and an inner surface, and a plurality of gates forming gate openings sized to allow selective entry of insects, wherein the cover further includes an aperture with a seal disposed therein, the seal including a slit dimensioned to permit replenishment of the insect bait formulation in the housing while essentially preventing the undesirable escape of insect bait station formulation therethrough. A method of inserting insect bait formulation into the insect bait station is provided, as well as an improved construction to for mounting the insect bait station into the ground, in which a security stake is provided that includes a longitudinal body having a channel formed therein for releaseably receiving at least a portion of the anchoring stake therein, the longitudinal body preferably including a plurality of ribs that comprise a plurality of anchoring barbs along the surface thereof, wherein the anchoring barbs are angled along the surface of the body such that when at least some of the anchoring barbs are below the surface of the ground, the security stake is resistible to an upward pressure in a direction away from the ground.