METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INHIBITING THE HUMAN SCENT TRACKING ABILITY OF MOSQUITOES IN ENVIRONMENTALLY DEFINED THREE DIMENSIONAL SPACES

摘要

The ability of mosquitoes to locate a target by olfactory emissions of thetarget is inhibited by dispensing into a spatialarea an inhibiting effective amount of at least one inhibiting compoundselected from the group consisting of 3-methyl-1-alkene-3-olsof formula (1) and 3-methyl-1-alkyn-3-ols of formula (II): wherein R1 and R2are each independently a saturated or unsaturatedaliphatic hydrocarbon group containing from 1 to about 12 carbon atoms.