Title of Invention	'NON-STICKY INSECT TRAP'
Abstract	Modern pest management can't operate without accurate estimates of pest and natural enemies' population densities in the fields. The present invention relates to a non-sticky insect trap (FIG.l) which can be used for insect monitoring or mass trapping purposes in the field. It comprises of a barrel shaped structure (having split walls moving inwards in a tapering fashion to facilitate an aperture near meeting ends; a lid on top portion having obstructive baffles; a funnel which ends in a detachable container) (FIG.l, 1). The barrel shaped structure is painted and fixed vertically in a telescopic arrangement which in turn fixed to the ground. The flying insects get hit by the baffles of the lid and fall into it which get collected in the container through the funnel.

Title of Invention

'NON-STICKY INSECT TRAP'

Abstract

Modern pest management can't operate without accurate estimates of pest and natural enemies' population densities in the fields. The present invention relates to a non-sticky insect trap (FIG.l) which can be used for insect monitoring or mass trapping purposes in the field. It comprises of a barrel shaped structure (having split walls moving inwards in a tapering fashion to facilitate an aperture near meeting ends; a lid on top portion having obstructive baffles; a funnel which ends in a detachable container) (FIG.l, 1). The barrel shaped structure is painted and fixed vertically in a telescopic arrangement which in turn fixed to the ground. The flying insects get hit by the baffles of the lid and fall into it which get collected in the container through the funnel.

Full Text	3. The following specification (particularly) describes the nature of invention and the manner in which it is to be performed The present invention relates to a Non-sticky Insect Trap invented for monitoring or mass trapping of the population of flying insects in the field. Modern pest management cannot operate without accurate estimates of pest and natural enemies' population densities or without reliable assessments of plant damage and its effect on yield. Acquiring quantitative information about the agroecosystem is a preliminary phase of any basic or applied work on insect-plant interactions. A vast array of different techniques and tools are used to monitor the population of insects in the fields viz., the hand net or butterfly net, light trap, pheromone traps, yellow sticky traps and the alike. The hand net is just like a badminton racket in which the gut is replaced by the mosquito net. The flying insect is targeted to trap in it. Some of the insects of the plant canopy get trapped which are later collected in a jar and studied. The shortcoming of this hand net is that the insects active at the time of collection are only trapped. Different types of insects are active at different periods of times. Therefore, it can't give true picture of the population of insect in the field. The insect light trap is kept in the field during night to target phototropic insects which are attracted towards it and hover around the source of light. Just below the light source is positioned a funnel. The hovering insects fall into this funnel and get trapped. The limitation of this light trap is that it traps only the phototropic insects. Therefore, it can't work for other kind of flying insects. The sex pheromone traps are based upon the chemical lures. The adult male insects are attracted towards the septa having the scent of the female of that species and got trapped in the funnel which is kept beneath these septa. The limitation of this type of trap is that the sex pheromone lures are known only for a few insect species. Moreover, the chemical lure varies from one insect species to another. Hence, only the population of a particular insect species can be trapped whose lure is known to the science and is available in the market. The yellow sticky trap is used to trap some specific type of insects which are attracted towards yellow colour. The yellow colour sheet is smeared with a sticky substance and installed in the field. The insect attracted towards the yellow colour and trapped in the sticky material pasted on the sheet. The limitation of this type of trap is that one has to replace the sticky material and the yellow coloured sheet frequently because it becomes non-functional due to adherence of soil particles (particularly during dust storms); adherence of insects on it and occupy the surface on it which results the scarcity of the sticky surface area for the subsequent insect population for adherence on it and washing and destruction of sticky surface with rains, crop straws etc. in the field. These shortcomings have been well overcome in this newly designed trap. The present invention comprises of a barrel shaped structure. All around the surface, it contains split walls which move inwards in a tapering fashion and stops near the meeting end to facilitate an aperture. The top portion of this structure is enclosed with a lid. The inner portion of the lid is provided with obstructive baffles and this extends up to the rear end of the structure. The bottom surface of this barrel shaped upright contains a funnel. The funnel's narrow aperture ends in a detachable container. The whole barrel shaped structure is painted with colour. The flying insects get hit by the baffles and fall into it which get collected in the detachable container through the funnel. The entire structure is firmly fixed in telescopic rod. The telescopic rod is rigidly fixed to the ground. The above arrangement holds the barrel shaped structure vertically in the field. The flying insects (such as aphids and the alike) enter into the sac through the narrow aperture of the structure and get trapped. Prior Art The insect pests cause enormous losses to the crops under field conditions. Mostly the synthetic chemical pesticides are applied to control them. The injudicious use of these chemical pesticides has led to several side effects. Residues of the chemical pesticides in foodgrains, fruits and vegetables, fish, milk, water and soil have often been reported to exceed their acceptance limits (Dhaliwal and Kalra, 1977; Kalra and Chawla, 1981). Modern pest management cannot operate without accurate estimates of pest and natural enemies' population densities or without reliable assessments of plant damage and its effect on yield. The importance of understanding insect activity to make decisions in insect pest management cannot be overstated. Indeed, this knowledge is indispensable to the paramount principle of pest management: to take no action against a pest unless that pest is known to be present and is an acute or potential threat. A few tools are available to monitor the population of insects in the fields viz., the hand net or butterfly net, light trap, pheromone traps, yellow sticky traps and the alike. Among these insect sampling tools, the sticky traps hold an important position. The sticky traps are generally used for catching the aerial insect population. Generally smaller sized insects like hoppers, white flies, aphids are trapped in these models. The sticky materials used include castor oil, Vaseline, grease etc. The sticky trap models include simple rectangular galvanized sheets, plastic jars or tin boxes, cylindrical tubes etc. over which the sticky adhesive material is applied. Generally different colours are painted on the trap depending upon the preference by various insects to colours and used as coloured sticky traps. White coloured traps are most effective in attracting the pigeon pea fly, Melanagromyza obtuse; yellow colour attract cotton white fly, Bemisia tabaci; cotton aphids, Aphis gossypi G. and green house white fly Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Bhatnager and Davies, 1979 and Gillespie and Quiring, 1987). Most traps are set in the field, left unattended for a period of time and then visited to pick up the catch. They are often operated continuously, integrating time, insect density, and insect activity to produce the numbers collected. These sticky traps have a number of limitations like: one has to replace the sticky materials and the coloured sheet frequently because it becomes non-functional due to adherence of soil particles (particularly during dust storms); adherence of insects on it and occupy the surface on it which results the scarcity of the sticky surface area for the subsequent insect population for adherence on it and washing and destruction of sticky surface with rains, crop straws etc. in the field. The rains may also cause loss of collected specimens due to runoff. It is also difficult to identify and count the tiny insects adhered on these sticky traps as separating the tiny insects from the sticky surface is difficult process. These shortcomings have been well overcome in this newly invented non-sticky insect trap. The present invention comprises a barrel shaped structure. All around the surface, it contains split walls which move inwards in a tapering fashion and stops near the meeting end to facilitate an aperture. The top portion of this structure is enclosed with a lid. The inner portion of the lid is provided with obstructive baffles and this extends up to the rear end of the structure. The bottom surface of this barrel shaped structure contains a funnel. The funnel's narrow aperture ends in a detachable container. The whole structure is painted with colour. The flying insects get hit by the baffles and fall into it which get collected in the detachable container through the funnel. The entire structure is firmly fixed in telescopic rod. The telescopic rod is rigidly fixed to the ground. The above arrangement holds the structure vertically in the field. The flying insects (such as aphids and the alike) enter into the sac through the narrow aperture of the structure and get trapped. Objective of the Invention The present invention - non-sticky insect trap is to monitor the population of flying insects in the field. The accurate estimates of pest and natural enemies' population densities in the fields are needed to understand insect activity to take good insect pest management decisions at right time. Indeed, this knowledge is indispensable to the paramount principle of pest management: to take no action against a pest unless that pest is known to be present and is an acute or potential threat. It may also be used for mass trapping of insects in the fields. Description of the invention Referring to FIG. 1, non-sticky insect trap comprises of two parts: the barrel shaped structure 1 and the telescopic rod 2. The all around surface of the barrel shaped structure contains split walls 3 which move inwards in a tapering fashion and stops near the meeting end to facilitate an aperture 4. The top portion of this structure is enclosed with a lid 5. The inner portion of the lid is provided with obstructive baffles 6 and this extends up to the rear end of the structure. The bottom surface of this barrel shaped structure contains a funnel 7. The funnel's narrow aperture ends in a detachable container 8. The whole barrel shaped structure is painted with colour. The physical stimulus (colour painted on the barrel shaped structure) lure the flying insects particularly which are responding to the colour such as aphids and the alike towards it and these insects 9 get hit by the baffles and fall into it which get collected in the detachable container. The telescopic rod consists of first pipe 10, the lower end of which is sharp elongated cone shaped 11. This cone shape of the lower end helps implanting the whole stricture in the ground. There is second pipe 12, which can move freely inside the first pipe. The outer diameter of the inner pipe is slightly less than the inner diameter of outer pipe. The first pipe is provided with paired holes 13. The second pipe is also provided with several paired holes 14. By aligning the paired holes of outer pipe with any of the paired holes of inner pipe, the peg 15 is inserted in the holes. The vertical movement of these two pipes and the series of paired holes in the inner pipe provide for the adjustment of the height of the barrel shaped structure. The trap may be installed in the field wherever one would like to monitor or trap the insects. The telescopic rod is firmly fixed in barrel shaped structure through the provision provided in it. The telescopic rod is rigidly fixed to the ground. The above arrangement holds the structure vertically in the field. The flying insects (such as aphids and the alike) enter into the detachable container through the funnel of the structure and get trapped. The height of the trap can be increased or decreased as per the requirement by just increasing or decreasing the height of the pole inside the telescopic rod. The precise advantages of this invention are: (i) It can be used to monitor or mass trap the population of flying insects in the field. The accurate estimates of pest and natural enemies' population densities in the crop fields is needed to understand insect activity to take good insect pest management decisions at right time, (ii) It can work in the fields during and after harsh weather conditions. Hence, frequent replacement of the trap is not required, (iii) Collection of insects from it for insect identification, counting purposes is very comfortable, (iv) It can be painted with any desirable colour as per the need, (v) It is durable and may be used year after year, (vi) It provides valuable information on the insect population fluctuations and their peak period of activities, (vii) The height of the trap can be increased or decreased as per the requirement by doing adjustment in the telescopic rod. References: Bhatnager, V.S. and Davies, J.C. (1979). Insect trap studies at ICRISAT centre. Progress Report, Cropping Entomology 2. ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India. Dhaliwal, G.S. and Kalra, R.L. (1977). DDT residues in milk samples from Ludhiana and surrounding areas. Indian Journal of Ecology 4(1): 13-22. Gillespie, D.R. and Quiring,D. (1987). Yellow sticky traps for detecting and monitoring green house whitefly (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) adults on Green house tomato crops. J. Econ. Entomol, 80(4): 675-679. Kalra, R.L. and Chawla, R.P. (1981). Impact of pesticidal pollution in the environment. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 78(1): 1-15. We Claim: 1. Non-sticky insect trap (FIG. 1) comprising of a barrel shaped structure and the telescopic rod (FIG.l). 2. The barrel shaped structure consisting of the following components: a) containing split walls all around the surface moving inwards in a tapering fashion and stops near the meeting end to facilitate an aperture. b) The top portion of this structure having a lid; the inner portion of the lid contains obstructive baffles which extend up to the rear end of the structure. c) The bottom surface of the barrel accommodates a funnel which ends in a detachable container. d) The whole barrel shaped structure painted with colour.

Full Text

3. The following specification (particularly) describes the nature of invention and the
manner in which it is to be performed
The present invention relates to a Non-sticky Insect Trap invented for monitoring or mass
trapping of the population of flying insects in the field.
Modern pest management cannot operate without accurate estimates of pest
and natural enemies' population densities or without reliable assessments of plant
damage and its effect on yield. Acquiring quantitative information about the
agroecosystem is a preliminary phase of any basic or applied work on insect-plant
interactions. A vast array of different techniques and tools are used to monitor the
population of insects in the fields viz., the hand net or butterfly net, light trap, pheromone
traps, yellow sticky traps and the alike.
The hand net is just like a badminton racket in which the gut is replaced by
the mosquito net. The flying insect is targeted to trap in it. Some of the insects of the
plant canopy get trapped which are later collected in a jar and studied.
The shortcoming of this hand net is that the insects active at the time of
collection are only trapped. Different types of insects are active at different periods of
times. Therefore, it can't give true picture of the population of insect in the field.
The insect light trap is kept in the field during night to target phototropic
insects which are attracted towards it and hover around the source of light. Just below the
light source is positioned a funnel. The hovering insects fall into this funnel and get
trapped.
The limitation of this light trap is that it traps only the phototropic insects.
Therefore, it can't work for other kind of flying insects.
The sex pheromone traps are based upon the chemical lures. The adult male
insects are attracted towards the septa having the scent of the female of that species and
got trapped in the funnel which is kept beneath these septa. The limitation of this type of
trap is that the sex pheromone lures are known only for a few insect species. Moreover,
the chemical lure varies from one insect species to another. Hence, only the population of
a particular insect species can be trapped whose lure is known to the science and is
available in the market.
The yellow sticky trap is used to trap some specific type of insects which are
attracted towards yellow colour. The yellow colour sheet is smeared with a sticky
substance and installed in the field. The insect attracted towards the yellow colour and
trapped in the sticky material pasted on the sheet. The limitation of this type of trap is that
one has to replace the sticky material and the yellow coloured sheet frequently because it
becomes non-functional due to adherence of soil particles (particularly during dust storms);
adherence of insects on it and occupy the surface on it which results the scarcity of the
sticky surface area for the subsequent insect population for adherence on it and washing
and destruction of sticky surface with rains, crop straws etc. in the field. These
shortcomings have been well overcome in this newly designed trap.
The present invention comprises of a barrel shaped structure. All around the
surface, it contains split walls which move inwards in a tapering fashion and stops near
the meeting end to facilitate an aperture. The top portion of this structure is enclosed with
a lid. The inner portion of the lid is provided with obstructive baffles and this extends up
to the rear end of the structure. The bottom surface of this barrel shaped upright contains
a funnel. The funnel's narrow aperture ends in a detachable container. The whole barrel
shaped structure is painted with colour.
The flying insects get hit by the baffles and fall into it which get collected in the
detachable container through the funnel.
The entire structure is firmly fixed in telescopic rod. The telescopic rod is rigidly
fixed to the ground. The above arrangement holds the barrel shaped structure vertically in
the field. The flying insects (such as aphids and the alike) enter into the sac through the
narrow aperture of the structure and get trapped.
Prior Art
The insect pests cause enormous losses to the crops under field conditions.
Mostly the synthetic chemical pesticides are applied to control them. The injudicious use
of these chemical pesticides has led to several side effects. Residues of the chemical
pesticides in foodgrains, fruits and vegetables, fish, milk, water and soil have often been
reported to exceed their acceptance limits (Dhaliwal and Kalra, 1977; Kalra and Chawla,
1981). Modern pest management cannot operate without accurate estimates of pest and
natural enemies' population densities or without reliable assessments of plant damage
and its effect on yield. The importance of understanding insect activity to make decisions
in insect pest management cannot be overstated. Indeed, this knowledge is indispensable
to the paramount principle of pest management: to take no action against a pest unless
that pest is known to be present and is an acute or potential threat.
A few tools are available to monitor the population of insects in the fields
viz., the hand net or butterfly net, light trap, pheromone traps, yellow sticky traps and the
alike.
Among these insect sampling tools, the sticky traps hold an important
position. The sticky traps are generally used for catching the aerial insect population.
Generally smaller sized insects like hoppers, white flies, aphids are trapped in these
models. The sticky materials used include castor oil, Vaseline, grease etc. The sticky trap
models include simple rectangular galvanized sheets, plastic jars or tin boxes, cylindrical
tubes etc. over which the sticky adhesive material is applied. Generally different colours
are painted on the trap depending upon the preference by various insects to colours and
used as coloured sticky traps. White coloured traps are most effective in attracting the
pigeon pea fly, Melanagromyza obtuse; yellow colour attract cotton white fly, Bemisia
tabaci; cotton aphids, Aphis gossypi G. and green house white fly Trialeurodes
vaporariorum (Bhatnager and Davies, 1979 and Gillespie and Quiring, 1987). Most traps
are set in the field, left unattended for a period of time and then visited to pick up the
catch. They are often operated continuously, integrating time, insect density, and insect
activity to produce the numbers collected.
These sticky traps have a number of limitations like: one has to replace the
sticky materials and the coloured sheet frequently because it becomes non-functional due
to adherence of soil particles (particularly during dust storms); adherence of insects on it
and occupy the surface on it which results the scarcity of the sticky surface area for the
subsequent insect population for adherence on it and washing and destruction of sticky
surface with rains, crop straws etc. in the field. The rains may also cause loss of collected
specimens due to runoff. It is also difficult to identify and count the tiny insects adhered
on these sticky traps as separating the tiny insects from the sticky surface is difficult
process.
These shortcomings have been well overcome in this newly invented non-sticky
insect trap.
The present invention comprises a barrel shaped structure. All around the surface,
it contains split walls which move inwards in a tapering fashion and stops near the
meeting end to facilitate an aperture. The top portion of this structure is enclosed with a
lid. The inner portion of the lid is provided with obstructive baffles and this extends up to
the rear end of the structure. The bottom surface of this barrel shaped structure contains a
funnel. The funnel's narrow aperture ends in a detachable container. The whole structure
is painted with colour.
The flying insects get hit by the baffles and fall into it which get collected in the
detachable container through the funnel.
The entire structure is firmly fixed in telescopic rod. The telescopic rod is rigidly
fixed to the ground. The above arrangement holds the structure vertically in the field. The
flying insects (such as aphids and the alike) enter into the sac through the narrow aperture
of the structure and get trapped.
Objective of the Invention
The present invention - non-sticky insect trap is to monitor the population of
flying insects in the field. The accurate estimates of pest and natural enemies' population
densities in the fields are needed to understand insect activity to take good insect pest
management decisions at right time. Indeed, this knowledge is indispensable to the
paramount principle of pest management: to take no action against a pest unless that pest
is known to be present and is an acute or potential threat. It may also be used for mass
trapping of insects in the fields.
Description of the invention
Referring to FIG. 1, non-sticky insect trap comprises of two parts: the barrel shaped
structure 1 and the telescopic rod 2.
The all around surface of the barrel shaped structure contains split walls 3 which
move inwards in a tapering fashion and stops near the meeting end to facilitate an
aperture 4. The top portion of this structure is enclosed with a lid 5. The inner portion of
the lid is provided with obstructive baffles 6 and this extends up to the rear end of the
structure. The bottom surface of this barrel shaped structure contains a funnel 7. The
funnel's narrow aperture ends in a detachable container 8. The whole barrel shaped
structure is painted with colour.
The physical stimulus (colour painted on the barrel shaped structure) lure the
flying insects particularly which are responding to the colour such as aphids and the
alike towards it and these insects 9 get hit by the baffles and fall into it which get
collected in the detachable container.
The telescopic rod consists of first pipe 10, the lower end of which is sharp
elongated cone shaped 11. This cone shape of the lower end helps implanting the whole
stricture in the ground. There is second pipe 12, which can move freely inside the first
pipe. The outer diameter of the inner pipe is slightly less than the inner diameter of outer
pipe. The first pipe is provided with paired holes 13. The second pipe is also provided
with several paired holes 14. By aligning the paired holes of outer pipe with any of the
paired holes of inner pipe, the peg 15 is inserted in the holes. The vertical movement of
these two pipes and the series of paired holes in the inner pipe provide for the adjustment
of the height of the barrel shaped structure. The trap may be installed in the field
wherever one would like to monitor or trap the insects.
The telescopic rod is firmly fixed in barrel shaped structure through the
provision provided in it. The telescopic rod is rigidly fixed to the ground. The above
arrangement holds the structure vertically in the field. The flying insects (such as aphids
and the alike) enter into the detachable container through the funnel of the structure and
get trapped.
The height of the trap can be increased or decreased as per the requirement by
just increasing or decreasing the height of the pole inside the telescopic rod.
The precise advantages of this invention are:
(i) It can be used to monitor or mass trap the population of flying insects in the
field. The accurate estimates of pest and natural enemies' population densities
in the crop fields is needed to understand insect activity to take good insect pest
management decisions at right time,
(ii) It can work in the fields during and after harsh weather conditions. Hence,
frequent replacement of the trap is not required,
(iii) Collection of insects from it for insect identification, counting purposes is very
comfortable,
(iv) It can be painted with any desirable colour as per the need,
(v) It is durable and may be used year after year,
(vi) It provides valuable information on the insect population fluctuations and their
peak period of activities,
(vii) The height of the trap can be increased or decreased as per the requirement by
doing adjustment in the telescopic rod.
References:
Bhatnager, V.S. and Davies, J.C. (1979). Insect trap studies at ICRISAT centre. Progress
Report, Cropping Entomology 2. ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India.
Dhaliwal, G.S. and Kalra, R.L. (1977). DDT residues in milk samples from Ludhiana and
surrounding areas. Indian Journal of Ecology 4(1): 13-22.
Gillespie, D.R. and Quiring,D. (1987). Yellow sticky traps for detecting and monitoring
green house whitefly (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) adults on Green house
tomato crops. J. Econ. Entomol, 80(4): 675-679.
Kalra, R.L. and Chawla, R.P. (1981). Impact of pesticidal pollution in the environment.
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 78(1): 1-15.

We Claim:
1. Non-sticky insect trap (FIG. 1) comprising of a barrel shaped structure and the
telescopic rod (FIG.l).
2. The barrel shaped structure consisting of the following components:
a) containing split walls all around the surface moving inwards in a tapering
fashion and stops near the meeting end to facilitate an aperture.
b) The top portion of this structure having a lid; the inner portion of the lid
contains obstructive baffles which extend up to the rear end of the structure.
c) The bottom surface of the barrel accommodates a funnel which ends in a
detachable container.
d) The whole barrel shaped structure painted with colour.

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Patent Number

278215

Indian Patent Application Number

1454/DEL/2008

PG Journal Number

53/2016

Publication Date

23-Dec-2016

Grant Date

16-Dec-2016

Date of Filing

18-Jun-2008

Name of Patentee

INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

Applicant Address

Krishi Bhawan, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi-110001, India

Inventors:

#	Inventor's Name	Inventor's Address
1	SURENDER KUMAR SINGH	NATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT,L.B.S. BUILDING, I.A.R.I., PUSA CAMPUS, NEW DELHI-110012,India.
2	DESH BANDHU AHUJA	NATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT,L.B.S. BUILDING, I.A.R.I., PUSA CAMPUS, NEW DELHI-110012India.
3	DINESH KUMAR GARG	NATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT,L.B.S. BUILDING, I.A.R.I., PUSA CAMPUS, NEW DELHI-110012India.
4	OM PRAKASH BAMBAWALE	NATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT,L.B.S. BUILDING, I.A.R.I., PUSA CAMPUS, NEW DELHI-110012India.

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