JP2005229997A - Insect control device of all day long lighting type - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an insect control device, capable of efficiently controlling insects by using a light source, reflective plates, a flying means, and a capturing means. <P>SOLUTION: This insect control device is composed of the light source for attracting or repelling insects, the reflective plates for efficiently irradiating the insects with radiation light from the light source, leading the attracted insects to the capturing means, and regulating a quantity of irradiation light to a crop, the flying means for forcedly flying the insects staying on the crop, and the capturing means comprising an air blower and an insect trapping net, etc., for killing and wounding the insects. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

  The present invention relates to an apparatus for controlling flying insects that are active during the day or at night in farms, warehouses, factories, shops, ordinary households, and the like.

  Insects that fly to the farm and proliferate and cause harm, such as thrips such as citrus white thrips, thrips such as white thrips, whiteflies such as silver leaf whiteflies, whitefly whiteflies, vegetables such as peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, green onions, carnations, Harm flowers such as chrysanthemum.

  There is a method of attracting and killing these flying insects with an adhesive plate as a crop damage prevention method. Typical adhesive plates are blue and yellow. The blue adhesive board attracts thrips and the like, and yellow attracts and captures whiteflies.

  The adhesive plate reflects light in a specific wavelength range of sunlight during the day and captures insects that have been attracted by the light.

Problems to be solved by the invention

  In general, the reflected light of the sun by the adhesive plate is weak, and the effect of attracting insects is low. Moreover, since the reflected light is only in one direction, only flying insects in a specific place can be attracted.

  The adhesive plate is effective only in fine weather, and cannot function in cloudy weather, rainy weather, at night, indoors, or in a place covered with a light-shielding net.

  The sticky plate attaches insects, dust, etc. that do not need to be controlled, so it has a limited period of use and must be replaced in a short period of time.

  An object of the present invention is to solve the above problems and to provide an insect repellent with higher control efficiency.

Means for solving the problem

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is characterized in that a flying insect attracting light source or repelling light source is used and the shape of the light source is made spherical, ring-shaped, straight tube or the like and radiated in all directions. Here, an incandescent bulb, a fluorescent lamp, LED, HID light, or the like is used as the light source. Lighting methods include continuous lighting, pulse lighting, and combinations thereof.

  In addition, the present invention turns on the light source under the temperature conditions where the flying insects can act, so that when the amount of radiated light from the sun decreases, that is, in any weather, at night, in horticultural facilities, indoors, etc. It is possible to have

  Further, the present invention is characterized in that an insect staying in a place where light does not directly reach, such as the back side of a leaf of a crop, is caused to fly by a physical method such as vibration, sound, or wind, or a chemical method such as odor.

  In addition, the present invention efficiently illuminates the place where flying insects live or come in, and further efficiently guides the attracted insects to the capture part. In order to adjust the amount of irradiation light, it is provided with a reflector.

  In addition, according to the present invention, an insect repellent using an attracting light source is characterized in that the vicinity of the light source is the same color as the light source and the other portions are repelled.

  Further, the present invention is characterized in that the insect repellent using the repellent light source has a repellent color.

  In addition, the present invention is characterized in that it has means such as a trap net, a fan, a water basin, an adhesive plate, a high voltage, etc., in combination for capturing and killing flying insects that have been attracted.

  DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing an embodiment of an insect repellent device for attracting and capturing flying insect silver leaf whiteflies according to the present invention, wherein 1 is a mounting bracket, 2 is a ring-shaped induction light source, 3 is a fluorescent lamp fixing bracket, and 4 is yellow A conical reflector, 5 is a yellow funnel reflector, 6 is an electric motor, 7 is a fan, and 8 is a white insect net (0.4 mm).

  As shown in FIG. 1, the insect repellent of the present invention is composed of an attracting light source 2, reflecting plates 4, 5, a flying means including a motor 6, a fan 7, a white insect catching net 8, and the like, and a kill capturing means. The attracting light source 2 uses a 30 W ring fluorescent lamp having radiation in a wavelength region of 0.52 μm or more and having a maximum radiation peak wavelength in the vicinity of 0.545 μm. The inclination of the reflectors 4 and 5 is 45 degrees or more. Of course, the shape of the reflectors 4 and 5 may be changed depending on the shape of the light source, and the surface of the reflector may be treated with silicon or other surface treatments in order to improve the reflection of radiated light and the sliding of insects.

  Insects attracted by the light from the light source 2 are slid down by the reflectors 4 and 5, sucked and killed by the blowers 6 and 7 below them, and dropped onto the trapping net 8. In addition, the air blows insects that remain on the leaves of the crop.

  Depending on the length of the metal fitting 3, the amount of light irradiated to the lower area of the insect repellent device can be changed. When the effect on plants such as chrysanthemums becomes a problem at night, the effect can be eliminated by suspending the insect repellent device with the metal fitting 1 above the plant and shortening the metal fitting 3.

  Next, test examples conducted to confirm the effect of the above insect repellent device will be shown.

"Test place" cabbage field (facility)
"Test period" September 10, 2003 "Test method"
From 9:00 to 10:30, from 20:00 to 21:30, when the lamp was turned on or off and the color of the reflector was yellow or white, the number of captured silver leaf whiteflies was examined. The insect repellent was installed so that the position of the lamp was 50 cm above the top of the crop.

  The results of the above test are shown in Table 1.

「試験結果の考察」
昼間も夜間もランプを点灯し、反射板がランプと同じ黄色のものが最もよく捕獲できた。また、反射板の色を青、緑、赤にした場合と比べ黄色の場合の捕獲数ははるかに多かった。また、捕虫網は黄色よりも白にしたほうが捕獲数ははるかに多かった。

"Consideration of test results"
The lamps were lit during the day and at night, and the reflectors with the same yellow color as the lamps were best captured. In addition, the number of captures in the case of yellow was much larger than that in the case where the color of the reflector was blue, green and red. In addition, the number of catches was much higher when the trap net was white than yellow.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to the said Example, A various deformation | transformation is possible. Although an annular fluorescent lamp is used as the attracting light source, a light source other than a fluorescent lamp such as a straight tube, a bulb-type fluorescent lamp, HID light such as an incandescent lamp or a sodium lamp, or an LED may be used. When higher illuminance is required, the light source may be adjusted by increasing the number of lamps or wattage. When the sound of the fan and the motor constituting the blower feels uncomfortable, the capture unit may be installed in another place using an intake hose. As the kill capturing means, a combination of a blower and a basin, an adhesive plate, or a high voltage may be used.

The invention's effect

  As described above, according to the present invention, the attracting or repelling light source is turned on all day, and the insect repellent body is partially or entirely the same color as the light source, thereby dramatically increasing the number of insects caught or more completely. It can be used effectively in fields where insect control is indispensable, such as farms, factories and shops for fruit trees, vegetables and flowers.

  It is sectional drawing which shows the Example of the insect repellent device of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Mounting fixture, 2 ... Attraction light source, 3 ... Fluorescent lamp fixing bracket, 4 ... Yellow cone reflector, 5 ... Yellow funnel Reflector, 6 ... electric motor, 7 ... fan, 8 ... white insect trap.

Claims (4)

  An insect repellent that controls insects by attracting or repelling insects with radiant light from a light source throughout the day.   The insect repellent according to claim 1, wherein the insect is subjected to a physical stimulus such as wind, vibration, and sound, and a chemical stimulus such as an odor to fly.   The insect repellent device according to claim 1, wherein the insect attracted is killed and captured.   When the synchrotron radiation is visible attracting light, the color that attracts the vicinity of the light source of the insect repellent that the insects fly in is a color that repels the other parts, and when the synchrotron radiation is visible repellent light, The insect repellent according to claim 1, wherein the repellent color is repelled.

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