Patent ID: 7243458

Claim:
A device for capturing flying insects, said device comprising: an insect trap; an airflow generator generating (a) an outflow comprising an insect attractant dispersed therein and (b) an inflow; an outflow opening communicated to said airflow generator, said outflow opening enabling said outflow to flow outwardly from said device and spread downwardly and radially from said device; and an inlet opening communicated to said airflow generator and said insect trap and positioned vertically higher than said outlet opening, said airflow generator drawing said inflow into said trap via said inlet opening such that insects intersecting said inflow are drawn into said trap; said airflow generator generating said inflow and said outflow in a counterflow relationship wherein, outside the device, an overlapping region of said inflow overlaps an overlapped region of said outflow and flows substantially counter to and immediately adjacent the overlapped region of said outflow.