Patent ID: 6907690
Filing Date: 2005-06-21
Classification: A01M,Y02A

Abstract:
1. An environmentally friendly insect eradication method, said method comprising: providing a canister, said canister having a pressurized gas propellant disposed therein, wherein said pressure is sufficient to introduce essentially all of said gas propellant into an internal portion of an insect bore in a tree via an entrance to the insect bore such that the air pressure in the internal portion of the insect bore substantially increases; inserting a gas introduction nozzle provided with said canister into the bore in the tree; displacing a valve mechanism connecting the nozzle and the canister such that it causes said propellant to enter the bore such that the air pressure within the bore substantially increases; crushing and displacing an invasive insect restively accommodated therein the bore by the force of the substantially increased air pressure within the internal portion of the insect bore; and wherein the gas propellant has no biocidal properties.