US 12,484,559 B2
Bag worm nest material
Ryoko Ichiki, Tsukuba (JP); Taiyo Yoshioka, Tsukuba (JP); Tsunenori Kameda, Tsukuba (JP); Takayuki Matsuda, Tsukuba (JP); and Akimune Asanuma, Tsukuba (JP)
Assigned to NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, Tsukuba (JP); and KOWA COMPANY, LTD., Nagoya (JP)
Appl. No. 18/569,972
Filed by NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, Tsukuba (JP); and KOWA COMPANY, LTD., Nagoya (JP)
PCT Filed Jun. 20, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/024452
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 4, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/265120, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 22, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-101905 (JP), filed on Jun. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0276960 A1, Aug. 22, 2024
Int. Cl. A01K 67/30 (2025.01); A01K 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 67/30 (2025.01) [A01K 1/00 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of assisting a bagworm in building a nest, comprising providing the bagworm at each stage of growth with a bagworm nest material constituted by a raw material comprising a same shaped bark or a different shaped bark as part of the nest material in accordance with the stage of growth of the bagworm,
wherein any shape of the bagworm nest material is provided to an initial-stage bagworm,
wherein the nest material comprising a particulate bark having a longitudinal diameter of from 0.3 mm to 5.0 mm is provided to a middle-stage bagworm, and
wherein a plate-like nest material is provided to a late-stage bagworm
whereby matching of the growth stage of the bagworm with the bagworm nest material increases nest building efficiency and survival rate of the bagworm.