Bed bug attractants and methods for trapping bed bugs

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8808721
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13466880

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The present invention relates to compositions and methods for attracting bed bugs with novel attractants and new and improved methods to enable their use to attract, monitor or trap bed bugs for surveying, monitoring, mitigation and management purposes. Known mammal pheromones were discovered to be useful as bed bug kairomone attractants. A method of delivering non-volatile attractants by using the attractive heat source to heat and volatilize the attractants was discovered to be the optimal method to disseminate the kairomones. A new method of generating low levels of carbon dioxide is disclosed, and the combination of kairomones, carbon dioxide and heat is shown to attract bed bugs.

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  • SPRINGSTAR INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Banfield, Michael Gilbert Woodinville, US 3 54
Schaafsma, Elizabeth Joy Seattle, US 1 10

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