Insect traps are used to monitor or directly reduce populations of insects or other arthropods, by trapping individuals and killing them. They typically...

A bottle trap is a type of baited arboreal insect trap for collecting either prized or harmful frugivorous beetles, especially flower beetles, leaf chafers...

A pheromone trap is a type of insect trap that uses pheromones to lure insects. Sex pheromones and aggregating pheromones are the most common types used...

trademark registration by the insect control brand Black Flag, the phrase roach motel has come to be used as a reference to all traps that use a scent or other...

Malaise trap is a large, tent-like structure used for trapping, killing, and preserving flying insects, particularly Hymenoptera and Diptera. The trap is made...

pan trap is a type of insect trap used to sample the abundance and diversity of insects, primarily used to capture small Hymenoptera. Pan traps are typically...

derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods, and occasionally small...

as an insect trap (hence its English name of "cruel plant"), without being a carnivorous plant, where it occasionally and inadvertently traps the pollinator's...

The agriculture and forestry industries use insect pheromones commercially in pest control using insect traps to prevent egg laying and in practicing the...

A trap crop is a plant that attracts agricultural pests, usually insects, away from nearby target crops. This form of companion planting can save a target...