GB2143112A

GB2143112A - Insect catcher

Info

Publication number: GB2143112A
Application number: GB08403854A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Yoshio Yano; Shinichiro Yano
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1983-07-13
Filing date: 1984-02-14
Publication date: 1985-02-06
Also published as: AU2487084A; JPS6015178U; GB8403854D0

Abstract

An insect catcher comprises an upper main body 5, which is suspensible and can be provided with a luring lamp 8, and a lower main body 1 connected detachably to said upper main body and provided with a fly attracting part 2 of inverted-funnel shape which is open at the top 4 and has a part 10 thereof shaded. When attracting and catching flies in the daytime, a bait dish 11 is suspended from the fly attracting part 2 or placed on the floor right below the fly attracting part. When attracting and catching moths at night, the outer surface of the upper main body 5 is covered with light-shading sheet. <IMAGE>

Description

SPECIFICATION An Insect Catcher This invention relates to an insect catcher particularly for attracting and catching harmful insects such as flies and moths.

While maggots and imagoes of flies and moths give a disagreeable feeling to human beings, flies themselves carry infectious disease and moths themselves do harm to the human bodies and plants with their scales. Therefore various means of catching flies and moths have been practised from ancient times. The quickest effect can be produced by atomizing insecticide at places where maggots and imagoes are supposed to be or by atomizing insecticide directly on maggots and imagoes. However, insecticide is generally poor in lasting power and therefore must be atomized frequently. Moreover, insecticide itself may have an unfavorable effect on human bodies.

We can swat flies to death by a flapper or the like, but in this case, the number of flies which can be swatted is limited. A light trap device which attracts and catches moths by utilizing light which moths like is available, but this device cannot be applied to catching flies.

The present invention has for its objects to provide an insect catcher which can be used as a fly catcher in the daytime and as a moth catcher at night, without using insecticide.

According to the invention the catcher comprises a suspensible upper main body with a luring lamp at its inner top part and a lower main body with its upper part open, having a fly attracting part which is partly shaded. The lower main body is detachable from the upper main body and a bait dish can be suspended from the fly attracting part during the time of attracting and catching flies.

The nature and advantages of the present invention will be understood more clearly from the following description made with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: Fig. 1 is a perspective view of one form of insect catcher according to the present invention while in use; Fig. 2 is a cross section of the insect catcher as it is used for attracting and catching flies; Fig. 3 is a cross section of the insect catcher as it is used for attracting and catching moths; and Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 respectively show an insect catcher of different shape, having the same action and the same effect as the insect catcher shown in Figs. 1 to 3.

Referring to the drawings, an insect catcher according to the invention comprises a lower main body 1 typically made of light-transmitting synthetic resin but which can be made of other light-transmitting material, such as glass.

A catcher as a whole should be so designed that its size is suitable for attracting and catching flies and moths and it gives an aesthetic sense.

An inverted-funnel shaped fly attracting part 2 is formed at the bottom centre as an integral part of the lower main body 1. A neck of the invertedfunnel shaped part forms a mouth 4 through which flies and moths enter.

The lower main body 1 is provided with at least two leg pieces 3 or projections so that it can be placed stably and a proper space can be obtained between the bottom part of the lower main body 1 and a floor to allow the flies to enter into it.

An upper main body 5 is connected detachably to the lower main body 1 by screw threads or by a clasp 6. The upper main body 5 has a socket 7 into which a luring light bulb 8 is fitted. Both the upper main body 5 and the lower main body 1 connected together are suspended from an electric cord 9. The luring light bulb 8 should preferably be positioned right above the mouth 4 of the fly attracting part 2 so that light comes out through the fly attracting part 2 and thereby attracts moths into the lower main body 1. In the case where an insecticide liquor or water is put in the lower main body 1, in order to avoid vapour emitted by flies, etc. from condensing and depositing on the inner surface of the upper main body 5 holes 5a of small diameter (such that flies are not able to escape through them) are made in the upper main body 5.

In order to catch flies more effectively by utilizing the habit of flies of moving from a dark place to a light place, a bottom part of the lower main body 1, or the portion from the bottom part up to the lower part of the fly attracting part 2, or the lower part of the fly attracting part 2 and the outer circumferential surface of the inner main body 1 are coloured with light-shading paint, or has a light-shading sheet stuck thereto, or is made of light-shading material so as to form a light-shading part 10 by which the upper part of the fly attracting part 2 is lightened and the lower part of it is darkened.

A bait dish 11 on which bait to give out a smell which flies like, such as raw fish and raw meat, is put is suspended through the medium of a hanger 12. Since this bait dish proves to be an obstacle when attracting and catching moths, it is made detachable or it is only placed on the floor where the main body rests.

In embodiment shown in Figs. 1 to 3, the outer shape of the upper and lower main bodies is globe-shaped, but the catcher of the invention is not limited to such a shape but can take any other shapes for ornamental purposes, such as garden lantern shape, a lantern shape, a chandelier shape, etc. Two alternative shapes of catcher are illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5 respectively. When not in use, the catcher can be suspended from the eaves or simply placed on the floor or in the garden for ornamental purposes. Also, it is possible to use it only for attracting and catching flies, without using a luring lamp.

In the case where a fly and moth catcher of the above-mentioned composition is used for catching flies, it is put on or hung at the place where flies are supposed to come flying and a bait dish with raw fish, raw meat pieces or the like thereon is placed below the fly attracting part 2.

The bait dish may be placed on the floor or may be hung from the lower main body. In this state, flies are attracted by a smell emitted by the bait and enter into the space between the floor and the bottom part of the lower main body (which is equal to the height of the leg piece 3). When flies nibble the bait and fly away, they fly towards the upper part of the fly attracting part 2 due to their habit of flying towards a light place and naturally enter into the lower main body 1 which is closed with the upper main body 5 through the mouth 4.

Flies once entered in the lower main body 1 do not fly towards the fly attracting part 2 where it is dark but fly towards the upper main body 5, but since the upper main body 5 is closed they only fly about in the upper main body 5 and waste their strength to death or are drowned in the water of the insecticide liquor in the lower main body 1.

When the insect catcher according to the present invention is used for attracting and catching moths, in order to attract moths more effectively the outer surface of the upper main body 5 is covered with a light-shading sheet 13 and the catcher is suspended from the electric cord 9 or a supsension rope at the place where moths are supposed to come flying. When the luring lamp is lighted, light comes out from the lower part of the fly attracting part 2 of the inverted-funnel shape and moths fly towards this light and are attracted into the lower main body 1 through the mouth 4. Thus, moths caught in the catcher die in the same manner as the flies caught in the catcher. In this case the catcher can be used without covering the upper main body 5 with a light-shading sheet and a bait dish removed as it gives an obstacle to the entry of moths As the fly attracting part at the central bottom part of the main body is inverted-funnel shaped and the catcher itself is shaded in such a manner that it is light at the upper part and dark at the lower part, attracting and catching of flies can be effected accurately by the combined effect with a bait dish on which a bait is placed. Moreover, as a luring lamp is installed at the upper part of the upper main body and the whole main body is suspensible, the catcher can be used for attracting and catching moths, as well as flies.

Since the catcher is dividable into an upper main body and a lower main body, it is easy to clean inside and to take out flies and moths caught in it.

Claims

1. An insect catcher comprising an upper main body which is suspensible and can be provided with a luring lamp when necessary and a lower main body connected detachably to said upper main body and provided with a fly attracting part of inverted-funnel shape with its top opening into the central bottom part of the upper main body and a part thereof shaded, and a removable bait dish which can be positioned in said fly attracting part.

2. An insect catcher according to Claim 1, including leg pieces having a height to facilitate fly attracting are provided at the outside of the bottom of the lower main body.

3. An insect catcher according to Claim 1, wherein the outer surface of the upper main body is covered with light-shading sheet when it is used as a moth catcher.

4. An insect catcher substantially as herein before described with reference to the accompanying drawings.