Recipient Organization
M & R Consulting Services dba Med-e-Cell
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San Diego,CA 92121
Performing Department
(N/A)
Non Technical Summary
Pheromones are an important part of insect management; they are ecologically more acceptable than insecticides. Frequently, insect management requires the release of multiple, expensive, pheromones (generally 2 or 3 different semiochemicals). Currently, multiple dispensers are required to release the various chemicals. They are mostly diffusion-controlled devices, with questionable field performance, resulting from lack of reliability and lack of control of the emission rates. The commercial applications of this type of product in forestry, alone, are limited; however, by extending its use in agriculture, orchards and horticulture, the business opportunity becomes attractive.
Animal Health Component
100%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
(N/A)
Applied
100%
Developmental
(N/A)
Goals / Objectives
The proposed investigation is aimed at establishing the suitability of a micropump-based dispenser technology to deliver multiple pheromones from solutions, under zero-order controlled release conditions. Delivery accuracy and reliability of this dispenser have already been demonstrated in 2001, in the laboratory and in the field, for the delivery of aqueous solutions of an antiaggregation pheromone (MCH) under a USDA-SBIR-1 grant. The object of this study will be to extend the capability of the dispenser to non-aqueous solutions of aggregation and mating disruption multicomponent pheromone blends.
Project Methods
By demonstrating feasibility and efficacy in Phases I and II, the zero-order dispenser will provide 1) investigators a flexible tool for research in the laboratory and in the field, and 2) a more reliable product for the accurate, controlled release of antiaggregation, aggregation and mating disruption pheromones and pheromone blends.