JPH026785Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Field of industrial application] The present invention is a white ant attractant that is installed on the ground around a wooden building, such as a house, to attract white ants that live nearby, and to detect the presence of white ants. It's about the ingredients.

[Conventional technology]

The main component of the white ant detector is one that has an acoustic sensor that picks up the activity sounds of the white ant, or one that has an ultrasonic probe that detects the nesting cavity of the white ant using ultrasonic waves. etc. are provided.

The above-mentioned white ant detector estimates the presence of white ant from various signs, and at present, it is used as a white ant attracting device to attract the presence of white ant in the inspection target area in order to confirm the inhabitation of the ant. No configurations have been proposed.

Although it is still a technology that is not yet publicly known,
The applicant has applied for a utility model registration as a white food damage sensor. This is a white spot damage sensor in which a gap is formed in a piece of wood and a probe for sonic flaw detection is attached to this piece of wood. This white insect damage sensor is placed at an appropriate position in the house, attracts white insects with a piece of wood with a gap, causes them to nest there, and detects the nesting cavity formed using the above-mentioned sonic probe. This is an attempt to confirm the existence of an ant. If a nesting cavity formed within a piece of wood is confirmed, it is assumed that there are many white ants living inside the house.

[Problem that the invention attempts to solve]

As mentioned above, no attracting device with white color has been proposed except for the one proposed by the applicant.

Furthermore, the device proposed by the applicant is mainly used inside a house, and an appropriate means for attracting and detecting white ants that live around houses is desired. It is desirable to attract white ants that have not yet entered the house, to confirm their presence at an early stage, and to take appropriate extermination measures as soon as possible.

[Means for solving problems]

The gist of the structure of the present invention is that it consists of a wooden nesting material to be installed on the ground, and a lid with a hole on the bottom surface that guides an attractant to the nesting material. This is a white dove attracting tool that is covered with the above-mentioned lid so that it can be opened and closed with a gap.

The nesting material is made of wood as described above, and should be selected from a tree species preferred by white ants as much as possible. Pine and cedar are especially suitable.

Moreover, the shape of the nesting material is not particularly limited. A short cylindrical shape, a rectangular parallelepiped shape, a cubic shape, etc. can be appropriately selected. Note that it is preferable to form multiple grooves on the upper surface of this nesting material. These grooves may be formed vertically and horizontally, or a large number of grooves with different diameters may be formed in arcuate and concentric circles.

The lid body can be made of concrete, plastic, metal, or the like. Its shape is determined in accordance with the shape of the nesting material. Further, it is preferable that the lower surface of the lid body is made uneven to increase the surface area.

Furthermore, a container having a container lid and a tube is formed on the top of the lid.

[Effect]

Since the present invention is constructed as described above, it is used as follows.

The white ant attracting device of the present invention is installed at several suitable locations on the ground around a house to attract the white ants that live around the area, and is used to confirm the presence of the white ant.

Specifically, the nesting materials described above are installed at appropriate positions around the house so that most of the nesting materials are buried underground. The nesting material is then covered with a lid. Leave a slight gap, for example, about 1 to 2 mm, between the inner surface of the lid and the nesting material. Container contains white attractant (powder or liquid)
and drop the attractant onto the nesting material as appropriate. Note that water may be used as the attractant.

If you install a white ant attractor like this, if there are white ants living around your house,
Attracted by this white lure, they invade the inside and nest in the nesting materials. Therefore, by periodically removing the lid and inspecting the nesting material to see if white ants are nesting, the presence of white ants can be detected early. In some cases, you may be able to discover white ants before they begin nesting inside your home.

If the presence of white ants is confirmed, damage can be prevented in advance by taking immediate measures.

By the way, the mechanism of attracting white ants using the above-mentioned white ants attracting tool is roughly as follows.

First, check the moisture condensation that forms on the inner surface of the lid (the above-mentioned dew condensation occurs when steam evaporates from the soil comes into contact with the lid). Also, white ants are attracted to the attractant that falls from the container.
White ants prefer wooden materials, and have a tendency to particularly prefer the joints of wooden materials (therefore, if a groove is formed on the top surface, they will be more strongly attracted to this).
Also, the attractant penetrates well into the nesting material. ).

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings.

As shown in FIGS. 1, 2, and 4, the white nest attracting device is composed of a nesting material 1, a lid 2, and a container 3. The lid 2 covers the nesting material 1 so as to be openable and closable. A container lid 4 is provided on the top of the container 3, and the container 3
A tube 5 is provided below, and the tube 5 is fixed to a hole 6 provided in the lid body 2. The nesting material 1 is made of pine wood.
As shown in FIGS. 4 to 4, it is configured in a cubic shape. Further, attraction grooves 7, 7, . . . are formed vertically and horizontally on the upper surface.

The lid 2 may be formed by molding concrete, and the lower surface may be formed into a square that is slightly larger than the planar shape of the nesting material 1 when viewed from the bottom. Further, the lower inner surface of the lid body 2 is provided with irregularities to increase the surface area.

Note that a handle may be attached to the lid body 2.

In this example, since the configuration is as described above,
Use it like this:

This white lure is installed on the ground around the house being inspected.

As shown in FIG. 4, the nesting material 1 is placed on the ground 9. At this time, most of the nesting material 1 is buried underground. The burial depth of the nesting material 1 is such that when the lid 2 is covered with the nesting material 1, the nesting material 1 is buried between the inner surface of the lid 2 and the nesting material 1.
There should be a gap of 1 to 2 mm between the top surface and the top surface. The nesting material 1 is covered with the lid 2 as described above. Place an attractant (water may also be used) 8 in a container 3.

If the white ant attractor is installed in this way, if there are white ants living around the house being inspected, the condensed moisture that forms on the inner surface of the lid 2, the nesting material 1, and the nesting material will be removed. The white ant is attracted by the attractant 8 that has permeated into the area 1 and invades the area. Then, they nest on nesting material 1.

Incidentally, since the inner surface of the lid body 2 is roughened to increase the surface area, the effect of condensing water evaporated from underground becomes high, and the effect of attracting white spots can be enhanced. Furthermore, the attracting grooves 4, 4... formed on the upper surface of the nesting material 1, and the attracting agent 8 falling from the container 3.
etc., the effect of attracting white nesting material 1 is enhanced.

Therefore, by periodically inspecting this white chick attractor and checking whether there are white chicks nesting on the nesting material 1, it is possible to check whether there are white chicks living in the target area.

To inspect this white lure, pull up the lid 2,
This can be easily done by exposing the nesting material 1. After inspection, the nesting material 1 may be covered with the lid 2 again.

If it is confirmed that a white ant is nesting on the nesting material 1 or the presence of a white ant on the inner surface of the lid 2, it is assumed that a white ant lives in or around the house. Appropriate extermination measures should be taken early.

[Effect of idea]

According to the present invention, the presence of white ants around a house can be detected using extremely simple means.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawing shows one embodiment of the present invention.
The figure is a partially cutaway schematic side view, Figure 2 is a schematic plan view, Figure 3 is a schematic plan view of the nesting material, and Figure 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing the white lion attracting device installed on the ground. be. 1... Nesting material, 2... Lid, 3... Container, 4...
... Container lid, 5... Pipe, 6... Hole, 7... Attraction groove, 8... Attractant, 9... Ground.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A white dove attracting device consisting of a wooden nesting material to be installed on the ground and a lid covering the nesting material, wherein the lid has a hole and the lid is covered so as to be openable and closable. .