US 12,171,234 B2
Sexual attraction pheromone of tribolium castaneum and insect control device
Sebastián Alejandro Trejo, Endsenada Prov. de Buenos Aires (AR); Sebastián Reinoso, La Plata / Prov. de Buenos Aires (AR); Walter Alberto Vargas, La Plata / Prov. de Buenos Aires (AR); Eliana Abrahamovich, La Plata / Prov. de Buenos Aires (AR); Nicolás Pedrini, La Plata / Prov. de Buenos Aires (AR); Juan Roberto Girotti, La Plata / Prov. de Buenos Aires (AR); and Marta Patricia Juárez, La Plata / Prov. de Buenos Aires (AR)
Assigned to YPF TECNOLOGÍA S.A., Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires (AR); CONSEJO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS Y TÉCNICAS (CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (AR); and UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA (UNLP), La Plata/Prov. de Buenos Aires (AR)
Filed by YPF TECNOLOGÍA S.A., Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (AR); CONSEJO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS Y TÉCNICAS (CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (AR); and UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA (UNLP), La Plata / Prov. de Buenos Aires (AR)
Filed on Mar. 6, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/811,928.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/815,536, filed on Mar. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0281206 A1, Sep. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. A01M 1/20 (2006.01); A01M 1/02 (2006.01); A01N 49/00 (2006.01); A01N 65/00 (2009.01)
CPC A01N 49/00 (2013.01) [A01M 1/02 (2013.01); A01N 65/00 (2013.01); A01M 1/2005 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An insect control device comprising:
an outer shell comprising a plurality of orifices,
a membrane impregnated with a luring composition, the luring composition comprising an isolated sexual attraction pheromone of male Tribolium castaneum as the sole luring pheromone, wherein the sexual attraction pheromone of male Tribolium castaneum has a molecular weight of approximately 210 g/mol, a molecular formula of C14H26O and a chemical structure having only one degree of unsaturation and a terminal carbonyl group, and
an inner capsule located inside the outer shell, which defines an interior region comprising an insecticide formulation comprising isolated microsclerotia of Beauveria bassiana.