Patents Assigned to University of Florida, a state university
  • Publication number: 20040068919
    Abstract: Below ground kits for controlling arthropods such as termites, ants, and roaches. A first embodiment fills a chamber with a food and places it adjacent to an arthropod population such as termites, so that live termites can then enter the entrance/exit of the tube to reach the food. Once termites are inside the tube, a non-edible foraging matrix, such as a disc of loose soil, sand, rocks, shale, and gravel that is treated with a slow acting and non-repellant toxicant, is placed between the food in the chamber and the termite entrance/exit. Termites are forced to pass through and disperse the slow-acting and non-repellent toxicant through their tunnels and living space in order to kill termites over time. A second embodiment houses the slow acting toxicant mixed with non-edible foraging matrix in a chamber having at least one wall formed from an edible, non-toxic food source such as being wood, paper, cellulose material, foam, plastic, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: University of Florida, a state university
    Inventors: Faith M. Oi, Philip G. Koehler