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