Insect Gate

HomeHow it works

Scent. Corner. Count. Phone.

Four steps, none of which need you to do anything but look at your phone once in a while.

Grey Insect Gate showing the lure well and a side entry channel

The oval is the lure well. The slots on each side are the gates. Nothing is printed on it.

1

It smells like somewhere they want to be

Each box is made for one insect. The cartridge in the lid releases the scent for twelve months. Then you drop in a new one and keep the box.

2

They walk in at a corner

The box sits flat on the floor, so they cannot crawl under it. They take a corner, the way they take a crack in the skirting.

3

A light beam counts them

Across each corner is a tiny beam. When an insect breaks it, that is one. Four corners, so it does not matter which way they come from.

4

You look in the morning

Stand in the room and open the app. Zero means the room is quiet. A rise overnight means it is time to act.

It counts them. It does not kill them.

If the number is not zero you still need a treatment: a professional, heat, whatever you choose. The box is how you know a room has started, and later how you know it has gone quiet again.

That is the point of a count rather than a trap. You never have to lift the box or guess whether the treatment worked.