Patent ID: 7293387
Filing Date: 2007-11-13
Classification: A01M

Abstract:
1. An attractant system for removable mounting to an insect trapping apparatus, the attractant system comprising: a housing defining at least a first chamber and a second chamber; the housing being constructed to be removably mounted to the insect trapping apparatus; a first diffusible insect attractant carried in the first chamber; a second diffusible insect attractant carried in the second chamber, wherein the first and second diffusible insect attractants may chemically react with one another; the first chamber having at least one opening for enabling the first diffusible insect attractant to be released therethrough to a surrounding environment; the second chamber having at least one opening for enabling the second diffusible insect attractant to be released therethrough to the surrounding environment; the at least one opening of the first chamber and the at least one opening of the second chamber being separate from one another so that the attractants diffuse and release separately through the respective openings, and the first and second chambers being constructed such that the first diffusible insect attractant releases to the surrounding environment only through the at least one opening of the first chamber and the second diffusible insect attractant releases to the surrounding environment only through the at least one opening of the second chamber; one or more removable seals removably mounted to each of the openings of the chambers, the one or more removable seals closing the openings to seal the chambers and isolate the chambers from one another for preventing diffusion of the first and second diffusible insect attractants through the openings and intermingling of the first and second attractants prior to removal of the one or more seals; the one or removable seals being removable to open the openings of the chambers to allow the insect attractants to release therefrom to the surrounding environment so as to attract insects to the insect trapping apparatus when the housing is mounted thereto.