发明授权
- 专利标题: System and method for production of predatory mites
- 专利标题(中): 捕食性螨的生产系统和方法
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申请号: US12432313申请日: 2009-04-29
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公开(公告)号: US08327797B1公开(公告)日: 2012-12-11
- 发明人: Juan Morales-Ramos , Maria Rojas , Daniel Cahn
- 申请人: Juan Morales-Ramos , Maria Rojas , Daniel Cahn
- 申请人地址: US DC Washington
- 专利权人: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
- 当前专利权人: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
- 当前专利权人地址: US DC Washington
- 代理商 John Fado; Robert D. Jones; Lesley Shaw
- 主分类号: A01K29/00
- IPC分类号: A01K29/00
摘要:
Predatory mites contained in an enclosed housing are provided with a continuous food source (i.e. spidermites) so that the healthy adult predatory mites migrate upwards to a collection container at the apex of the housing where a user harvests the predatory mites. The predatory mites are provided with spidermite-infested vegetation disposed in planar trays. The trays are chronologically arranged in a vertical stack within the housing so that as new trays loaded with spidermites are added to the top of the stack, old trays depleted of spidermites are removed from the bottom of the stack. The predatory mites intuitively display negative geotropism and positive phototropism so that the mites naturally move upwards and toward the light. Consequently the predatory mites migrate to the upper trays as new trays are added and eventually reach the collection container at the apex of the housing.
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