Process for controlling cockroaches and other crawling insects

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Process for controlling, i.e. significantly reducing the population of, cockroaches and other crawling insects comprising deploying strips of polymeric controlled release dispensers to insect crawl paths and harborages, the dispensers containing a low volatility toxicant for the insects which is made available on the surfaces of the dispensers and which, in a concentration of from 50 to 500 mg/sq.ft. of dispenser active surface area, is lethal to the insects after relatively brief periods of direct physical contact. Generally strips, aggregating from about 1/3 to about 3 sq.ft. of active dispenser surface area are adequate to achieve control of cockroaches and other crawling insects in an …