Abstract: A male annihilation insecticide formulation, having a viscosity appropriate for use in aerial or backpack spray applications and suitable for on-crop or off-crop uses, comprises an insect toxicant and a male-specific attractant, such as a parapheromone, for a target insect species, such as fruit fly, dispersed and entrapped in an emulsion comprising a biodegradable wax, an emulsifiers, and water.

Abstract: Spray drift during the application of agricultural chemicals is reduced by incorporating a monosaccharide or a mixture of monosaccharides into the liquid to be sprayed and by spraying the resulting liquid through a flat fan or straight stream nozzle without a deflector. Average spray droplet sizes are increased and the percentage of driftable spray droplets (<150 microns) produced are reduced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pesticidally active composition comprising: 1) at least one pesticidally active ingredient having at least one functionality which is reactive with singlet oxygen, and 2) at least one compound which acts as an activity enhancer, which is distinct from the pesticidally active ingredient.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising an oil-in-water emulsion, wherein the emulsion comprises oily globules which are each provided with a lamellar liquid crystal coating and are dispersed in an aqueous phase, wherein each oily globule comprises at least one compound which is agriculturally active, and is individually coated with a monolamellar or oligolamellar layer comprising: (1) at least one non-ionic lipophilic surface-active agent, (2) at least one non-ionic hydrophilic surface-active agent and (3) at least one ionic surface-active agent, wherein the globules having a mean particle diameter of less than 800 nanometers.

Abstract: An automated process, and a device for implementing the process, for preparing a printing block from a photopolymer plate which has been previously exposed to ultraviolet radiation to convert it into a printing block for flexography or typography, or dry offset. The process includes at least the steps of lowering the plate with its sensitive face down into an etching vat, and then etching the plate by the resultant effect of a reciprocating horizontal movement of plane brushes and a to-and-fro movement of the etching vat in a horizontal direction perpendicular to that of the brushes, with the plate being held in place by gravity during the etching.

Abstract: Forming a metal shield on a cable core in which a frusto-conical forming surface for the shield has a plurality of former sections disposed side-by-side from a downstream end of the former. The sections are removable, in order, from the downstream end to increase the downstream end diameter of the forming surface and may be replaced, in order, so as to decrease the diameter at the downstream end for the purpose of applying shields to cable cores of different diameters.

Abstract: In a device for filling the interstices of the multi-stranded core of a cable, a die freely rotatable about an axis and having a plurality of passages opening from each end of the die, the passages being arranged in a cylindrical locus about the rotational axis of the die. The device itself consists of a housing defining a chamber holding filler material through which the core passes, one end of the housing being closed by the die and the other end of the housing having an aperture axially aligned with the die.