US 7,589,122 B2
	Method for soybean aphid population suppression and monitoring using aphid- and host-plant-associated semiochemical compositions
Junwei Zhu, Ames, Iowa (US); and Thomas Baker, State College, Pa. (US)
Assigned to MSTRS Technologies, Inc., Ames, Iowa (US)
Filed on May 06, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/123,668.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/568640, filed on May 06, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0249769 A1, Nov. 10, 2005
Int. Cl. A01N 43/16 (2006.01); A01N 25/00 (2006.01); A61K 31/34 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 514—469  [514/457; 424/405]

7 Claims

1. A method of suppressing population of soybean aphids in soybean plants, comprising applying to a target area a composition comprising at least one semiochemical, wherein said semiochemical causes said soybean aphid or a soybean aphid predator to displace toward the source of the composition, wherein said semiochemical is selected from the group consisting of nepetalactone and nepetalactol such that said soybean aphid population is suppressed.