Bait attractive for monitoring and control of subterranean termites in cultivated areas.

摘要

The present invention is a bait attractive to termites underground belonging to the genus syntermes (lsoptera: termitidae) for use in monitoring and as a vehicle of toxic chemicals or bioinseticidas for control of the colonies of termites. The bait attractive promotes the attraction of termites and loading the same into the interior of the colony.The bait attractive constituted of solid pellets which have in their formulation attractive and inert substances; the latter are responsible for the physical characteristics of the bait. The attractive substances are sugar cane, dehydrated and ground and the semioquu00edmico 1,4 - dihidroxibenzeno.The inert substances consist of commercial soybean oil, wheat flour for household use and sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC).The making of the bait involves the mixing of all ingredients in distilled water, after homogenization and drying in an oven at 45 u00b0 C for 24 hours, the solid pellets are produced, which have cylindrical shape, rough texture, colour, light beige, with 1.5mm diameter by 10 M length.The claims are the employment of the bait for the monitoring and control of termites of the genus syntermes in cultivated areas in pellets, characterized by building up sugarcane dehydrated and ground and the semioquu00edmico 1,4 - dihidroxibenzeno as attractive.