“Product Overview
A new technology in pest management is an insect resistant packaging that is US EPA approved and FDA compliant for all types of food, feed, and seed packaging. ProvisionGard® was designed to protect commodity for over one year from stored product insects and can be implemented easily at current packaging suppliers for pennies per bag. Designed for paper/woven bags and super sacks, it requires no labeling and safely reduces insect populations in and around your stored products. The following study demonstrates efficacy using common stored grain beetles.
Studies are being conducted by the USDA-ARS and ProvisionGard® Technologies to evaluate residual efficacy of packaging material with the insect growth regulator [treatment] incorporated into the laminate exterior of bag packaging.
Materials and Methods
Experimental units for beetles consisted of either the inside or outside of untreated or treated bags placed in the bottom of a 62 cm2 Petri dish (10 mm high), and sealed by caulking around the edges. Ten larvae of either beetle species were placed in an experimental dish, and there were 6 replicates for the inside and outside of the bags for both the treated bags and the untreated control bags. The criterion for assessment was the emergence of morphologically normal adults of all species. [Treatment] can cause physical deformities in insects (like twisted wings and missing segments).
Treated bags and also companion untreated bags were tested by the USDA ARS in Manhattan, KS. [Treated] residual tests on bags were conducted to measure efficacy. Test
insect species are 4-week old larvae of the red flour beetle (RFB) and the same age larvae of the confused flour beetle (CFB).
Results
The outside and the inside of the treated bags showed activity of the red flour beetle larvae and the confused flour beetle larvae in the time trials. No adult RFB emerged from the larvae that were exposed on the treated packaging. There was some emergence of normal adult CFB from larvae exposed on the inside and outside of the bags. This is consistent with previous tests with [treatment] that indicate that the CFB is less affected compared to the RFB.
For more information about this new IPM packaging tool, go to https://pvgard.com and watch a video.”
Jim Bagwell, President of ProvisionGard® Technology
Smart Packaging: NEW IPM CONCEPT
