Use of acoustics to disrupt and deter wood-infesting insects and other invertebrates from and within trees and wood products

摘要

The invention comprises a device and method for impacting the behavior of invertebrates that infest wood, without the use of chemicals. In particular, the invention is useful for impacting the behavior of wood-boring invertebrates, which infest wood products, lumber and the woody portions of plants and trees. The invention utilizes acoustic (sonic) agents which may be optionally modulated with specific signals, to cause negative effects on the normal behaviors exhibited by wood-infesting invertebrates, which may result in the invertebrates being injured or killed, unable to reproduce, or caused to flee the wood that the invertebrates are infesting.

主权项

1. A method for disrupting a physiological process and/or a normal behavior of a wood-inhabiting invertebrate subject comprising:
(a) selecting one or more of the following signals:
(i) a biological acoustic waveform sample or portion thereof,(ii) a re-synthesized biological acoustic waveform sample or portion thereof,(iii) a processed biological acoustic waveform sample or portion thereof,(iv) a processed, re-synthesized biological acoustic waveform sample or portion thereof; and (b) exposing the subject to a combined signal of the one or more of the signals selected in step (a) and one or more chaotic acoustic waveforms.