US 12,250,937 B2
Device and method for attracting and trapping flying insects
Jared Freudenberg, St. Louis Park, MN (US); Emory H. Matts, Rowlett, TX (US); Ronald D. Jungmann, Oakdale, MN (US); Staci Johnston, Burnsville, MN (US); and Matthew Rhodes, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Assigned to ECOLAB USA INC., Saint Paul, MN (US)
Filed by Ecolab USA Inc., St. Paul, MN (US)
Filed on Mar. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/203,369.
Application 17/203,369 is a continuation of application No. 15/165,936, filed on May 26, 2016, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/173,760, filed on Jun. 10, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/168,320, filed on May 29, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0204536 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. A01M 1/14 (2006.01); A01M 1/04 (2006.01); A01M 1/22 (2006.01)
CPC A01M 1/04 (2013.01) [A01M 1/145 (2013.01); A01M 1/223 (2013.01); A01M 2200/012 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A trap for capturing flies comprising:
(a) a front wall and a back wall, the front wall and back wall defining an interior space;
(b) a first glueboard mounted on the back wall inside of the interior space;
(c) a first LED light having a wavelength from about 340 nm to about 420 nm and pointed at the first glueboard, wherein at least 50% of a light beam from the first LED light intersects an internal surface of the trap where the first glueboard is mounted;
(d) a second LED light pointed outside of the trap and having a wavelength from about 420 nm to about 490 nm; and
(e) a power source.