Intake and bulk
Raw grain, flour, cocoa, dried fruit, pet food. First-night detection on a new lot is the cheapest point to catch it.
IG-SP, brown or gold
Stored-product beetle monitor
For flour beetles, warehouse beetle, cigarette beetle, sawtoothed grain beetle and their cousins. Built for mills, distribution centres and dry-goods plants. Find the pallet before it finds the customer.
A map of pressure, not a tray of specimens
Pheromone programmes already exist in food plants because auditors expect them. Most are still a person walking a grid of glue trays, writing down a number, and hoping last week's hot spot has not moved.
This monitor sits on the floor along walls, racking and ingredient staging, where crawling beetles actually travel. The lure is an aggregation and food-odour blend for the beetle complex, not a hanging moth trap. LoRaWAN carries counts off a floorplate too large to inspect daily, and nobody lifts a unit to do it.
One infested lot found on day two is cheaper than a recall found by a retailer.
| Targets | Tribolium, Trogoderma, Lasioderma, Oryzaephilus, and related crawling beetles |
|---|---|
| Not this unit | Flying moths belong in a hanging trap; this is a floor gate |
| Lure | Beetle aggregation and kairomone blend, twelve months |
| Grid | Tighter on intake, packing and returns; looser in quiet racking |
| Housing | Brown as standard. Gold where the room is public. No markings. |
| Buyers | Mills, bakeries, pet food, spice, seed, 3PLs, pest-control companies |
Place it where beetles walk
Packing and dust
Beetles live in the residue that cannot quite be cleaned. Units along the skirting of packing lines show whether sanitation is holding.
Returns and damaged goods
The aisle everyone postpones. Put density here. Counts rise here first.
Audit trail
Retailer pest clauses want a pheromone programme with records. A year of timestamps is a better file than a stack of dated cards.