Patent ID: 9253973
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: A01M,Y02A

Claim Text:
1. A bed bug intercepting device for placement under a support leg of furniture or other object toward or from which bed bugs travel, comprising an upstanding, exterior climbable surface that bed bugs can climb and first and second pitfall traps disposed inwardly of the climbable exterior surface for trapping bed bugs, wherein the first pitfall trap comprises a bait-free inner, support-leg receiving receptacle for receiving the support leg of furniture or other object wherein the inner receptacle is bounded by an upstanding peripheral surface that has a surface roughness which is slippery to prevent bed bugs from climbing out and the second pitfall trap comprises a bait-free outer receptacle wherein the outer receptacle includes upstanding inner and outer peripheral surfaces that form the outer receptacle therebetween and that each have a surface roughness which is slippery to prevent bed bugs from climbing out, wherein bed bugs are trapped in the inner receptacle or outer receptacle as a result of being unable to climb out and wherein the inner receptacle includes a bottom surface on which the support leg is received such that bed bugs traveling from the furniture or other object are trapped in the inner receptacle and bed bugs traveling toward the furniture or other object are trapped in the outer receptacle.