WO2000056142A1 - Piege pour insectes aeriens - Google Patents

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WO2000056142A1
WO2000056142A1 PCT/ZA1999/000006 ZA9900006W WO0056142A1 WO 2000056142 A1 WO2000056142 A1 WO 2000056142A1 ZA 9900006 W ZA9900006 W ZA 9900006W WO 0056142 A1 WO0056142 A1 WO 0056142A1
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insect
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Brian Harmer
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01M—CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS; APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS
    • A01M1/00—Stationary means for catching or killing insects
    • A01M1/10—Catching insects by using Traps
    • A01M1/106—Catching insects by using Traps for flying insects
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01M—CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS; APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS
    • A01M1/00—Stationary means for catching or killing insects
    • A01M1/02—Stationary means for catching or killing insects with devices or substances, e.g. food, pheronones attracting the insects
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01M—CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS; APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS
    • A01M2200/00—Kind of animal
    • A01M2200/01—Insects
    • A01M2200/012—Flying insects

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  • This invention relates to a trap for flying insects and, in particular, but not exclusively, flies.
  • Insect traps in particular fly traps, have been made in numerous different configurations and some have operated with greater degrees of success than others.
  • a trap for flying insects comprising a hollow body defining an insect collection chamber, the body having 5 insect entrances and a service opening providing access to the interior thereof with a removable closure for the service opening, the trap being characterised in that the body is made as a single plastics blow moulding with integral insect entrances formed in the plastics material.
  • the service opening to be at the i o operatively upper end of the body and to have formations such as a conventional screw threaded or "snap-on" type lid defining the removable closure for the service opening; for the insect entrances to be in the operatively upper region of the body and to be of inwardly directed tubular shape, extending in a direction which may be radial but is preferably inclined to the radial; for each insect i s entrance to communicate with, at its outer end region, a roughly horizontal platform area conveniently formed in a shoulder towards the upper end of the body; for the tubular insect entrances to converge towards the inner open ends; and for the plastics material to be flexible in which case the body can be made to a concertina configuration to allow for axial collapse of the chamber for
  • a suspension unit to be provided which is conveniently in the form of a strap having a central region with an aperture co-operating with the service opening and retained in association therewith by the closure for such opening and; for the plastics material from 5 which the body is made to be somewhat translucent and for the operatively upper region of the insect trap to be coloured red whilst the remainder of it may be of any suitable colour such as a translucent yellow or white, for example.
  • Figure 1 is a partly cross-section elevation of an insect trap according to the invention with the lid shown in an exploded position relative to a
  • Figure 2 is a plan view of the insect trap with the lid removed and partly sectioned along line II to II in Figure 1 ;
  • Figure 3 is a schematic isometric illustration showing a suspension member for suspending the insect trap in an operative position.
  • an insect trap comprises a body (1) of circular shape in cross-section and defining a chamber (2) by virtue of the fact that it is a hollow blow moulding, in this case of a flexible plastics material.
  • the side walls (3) of the circular cross-sectioned body are made to a concertina 1 5 configuration so that the body can be collapsed axially for the purposes of packaging, transport and storage.
  • the material of manufacture is conveniently flexible polyethylene of a translucent yellow or white colour.
  • the operatively lower end (4) of the body is made to a concave shape so that bait will rest in the central region of it.
  • the operatively upper end (5) of the body 2 o has a service opening (6) defined by a neck (7) having external screw threads (8) therein and with which co-operate complimentary screw threads (not shown) on the interior of a screw type lid (9) forming a closure to the body.
  • tubular entrances are arranged in pairs thereof wherein each entrance is inclined to the radial direction and somewhat towards the other tubular entrance of the pair.
  • One such pair is illustrated in cross-section in Figure 2 of the drawings.
  • Each of these insect entrances communicate at the outer end with a substantially horizontal platform or landing area (11) (seen most clearly in Figure 2) which are s formed at what is basically a shoulder in the construction of the body. These landing areas are shaped such that they tend to lead the flies into the tubular entrances.
  • the insect entrances taper convergently from the outer end to the inner end (12) and it has been found that an angle of taper of about 10 degrees is appropriate.
  • i o For conventional sized house flies the diameter of the entrances may be roughly
  • 6.5mm at the operatively inner end and the length of the entrance passage may be equal to approximately half the radius of the insect trap.
  • the inner end should be about 10,4mm in diameter in which case the outer end can be about 16mm in i 5 diameter. A length of about 15mm is effective in this case. It will be understood that the tubular insect entrances are made integral with the body in the blow moulding process.
  • a suspension strap (13) (see Figure 3) is provided in which an 2 0 enlarged central region (14) has an aperture (not visible) receiving the neck (7) therein such that the strap is retained on the body by means of the lid (9).
  • the two free ends of the suspension strap (13) have holes (15) which can be used to suspend the strap from any suitable support structure.
  • the upper region of the body at least down to the substantially horizontal 5 landing areas (11), may be sprayed with a suitable red coating material to provide it with a bright red colour which may be effective in attracting insects although this feature is optional and may indeed not be particularly effective.
  • an insect trap made as described above can be extremely simply produced with minimal costs and minimal assembly costs. Also 0 because the body can be axially collapsed for packaging, storage and transport purposes which, it is envisaged, will greatly facilitate these operations.
  • the lid is removed and suitable insect attracting bait introduced into the interior of the body and the lid closed once again with the suspension strap (13) in its operative position. The insect trap can then be suspended in any suitable position.
  • the trap then functions in the usual way by attracting flies and possibly other insects in consequence of the odours and other volatiles emitted from the entrances.
  • the trap has particularly effective features in this regard. Firstly, as the trap sways in the wind the concertina configuration can stretch and collapse to some extent, thereby "pumping" the odours of the bait out from the entrances. i ° Secondly, the entrances of a pair tend to co-operate and develop a flow of air in one and out through the other in the manner indicated by arrows "A" in Figure 2. The air thus flowing picks up the odours of the bait and carries them out.

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  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Pest Control & Pesticides (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
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Abstract

L'invention concerne un piège à insectes utilisé notamment sous forme d'un piège du type piège à mouches. Le piège à insectes est constitué par un corps unique creux (1) en matière plastique moulée par soufflage comportant une ouverture d'utilisation à fermeture amovible. Le corps (1) présente une pluralité de moyens d'entrée d'insectes (10) formés dans le corps même, de préférence de forme tubulaire, avec l'extrémité externe communiquant avec la plate-forme en aire d'«atterrissage» formée dans la paroi du piège. Le piège est, de préférence, en forme générale d'accordéon, pour pouvoir se replier axialement, au moins dans une certaine mesure.
PCT/ZA1999/000006 1999-03-25 1999-03-25 Piege pour insectes aeriens WO2000056142A1 (fr)

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PCT/ZA1999/000006 WO2000056142A1 (fr) 1999-03-25 1999-03-25 Piege pour insectes aeriens
AU30132/99A AU3013299A (en) 1999-03-25 1999-03-25 Trap for flying insects

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Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2003073845A1 (fr) * 2002-03-01 2003-09-12 Brian Harmer Piege a moustiques

Citations (4)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB1580233A (en) * 1977-06-10 1980-11-26 Dransfield & Co Ltd A Insect trap
US4360987A (en) * 1981-03-18 1982-11-30 James Lowder Gnat trap
US4638592A (en) * 1985-10-21 1987-01-27 Schneidmiller Rodney G Fly trap and attractant therefore
DE9409276U1 (de) * 1994-06-08 1994-08-04 Kiesche, Klaus, Dipl.-Grafik-Designer (FH), 63897 Miltenberg Insektenfalle

Patent Citations (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB1580233A (en) * 1977-06-10 1980-11-26 Dransfield & Co Ltd A Insect trap
US4360987A (en) * 1981-03-18 1982-11-30 James Lowder Gnat trap
US4638592A (en) * 1985-10-21 1987-01-27 Schneidmiller Rodney G Fly trap and attractant therefore
DE9409276U1 (de) * 1994-06-08 1994-08-04 Kiesche, Klaus, Dipl.-Grafik-Designer (FH), 63897 Miltenberg Insektenfalle

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2003073845A1 (fr) * 2002-03-01 2003-09-12 Brian Harmer Piege a moustiques

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