A monitoring trap and classification system may help pest control professionals, landlords, and homeowners identify, monitor, and manage insects. The trap may have an adhesive area that traps an insect, as well as several features that assist in identifying the insect. A classification system may use a picture or image of the trap to extract the trap's identifier, orient and adjust the image to standardize the image's color and scale, and have the insect identified. The trap and classification system may be used by individual homeowners, tenants, landlords, farmers, and pest professionals to capture, identify, and manage insects. The classification system may reduce the complexity of counting and classifying trapped insects, and it may generate a history through a series of reminders and keeping a database of previous observations.

The device for trapping insects comprises an adhesive surface (4) for trapping insects; and a light source (2) for attracting the insects to said adhesive surface (4), which also comprises a chamber (1) provided with one or several holes (3), said light source (2) being placed inside said chamber (1) and said adhesive surface (4) is placed inside said chamber (1) or forms one of the inner walls of said chamber (1).

The presence of the chamber magnifies the light emitted by a light source and since the adhesive surface is located inside the chamber, the trapped insects remain concealed.

In an embodiment, as insect trap is disclosed including: a trap portion including a frame and a membrane having an adhesive surface, wherein the membrane is at least partially contained within the frame and is configured to adhere to an insect; and a base portion including a lighting element and a housing portion, wherein the housing portion is configured to receive and retain the trap portion when engaged therewith.

Insect capture is improved by providing a glue board having an adhesive coating on its front surface and forming a pattern of insect attractant UV light on that front surface. That pattern includes areas of bright UV light generated by light-emitting diodes that generate light at different wavelengths behind and visible through the glue board by flying insects, dimmer areas of light generated by said light emitting diodes that bounces off other portions of the device onto the glue board, and areas of shadow on the glue board where no or little light from said light-emitting diodes is present.

Insect capture is improved by providing a glue board having an adhesive coating on its front surface and forming a pattern of insect attractant. UV light on that front surface. That pattern includes areas of bright UV light generated by light-emitting diodes behind and visible through the glue board by flying insect, dimmer areas of UV light that bounces off other portions of the device onto the glue board, and areas of shadow on the glue board where no or little UV light is present.

An insect trapping unit that is provided with an adhesive sheet that includes a fluorescent brightening agent and that can transmit ultraviolet rays, and with a reflective member that reflects ultraviolet rays that have been transmitted through the adhesive sheet. The adhesive sheet is provided with an adhesive surface and with a rear surface that is on the opposite side from the adhesive surface. The reflective member faces the rear surface of the adhesive sheet.

An insect trapping unit that is provided with an adhesive sheet that includes a fluorescent brightening agent and that can transmit ultraviolet rays, and with a reflective member that reflects ultraviolet rays that have been transmitted through the adhesive sheet. The adhesive sheet is provided with an adhesive surface and with a rear surface that is on the opposite side from the adhesive surface. The reflective member faces the rear surface of the adhesive sheet.

The disclosure provides for a bed bug monitor that allows for detection and capture of bed bugs, and uses thereof.

The disclosure provides for a bed bug monitor that allows for detection and capture of bed bugs, and uses thereof.

Techniques for analyzing images of pests using a mobile device application are described. A mobile computing device may receive, via a graphical user interface (GUI), location information input corresponding to a location of a glueboard, an identification input of a pest type caught on the glueboard, and an image of the glueboard. The device may analyze white and dark areas of the image to determine at least one of: 1) total dark surface area of the glueboard and 2) number and size of multiple contiguous dark surface areas of the glueboard. The device may calculate a quantity of pests based on dark surface area and an average size of the pest. The device may output the quantity of pests to the GUI.