Patent ID: 8448376

Claim:
A flying insect trapping apparatus comprising: an attractive and inductive member having a vertical surface portion; an entry port surrounding an upper part of the attractive and inductive member; a trap chamber communicating with the entry port, wherein the attractive and inductive member is adapted to attract a flying insect and induce the flying insect to land on said vertical surface portion and move upwards along the vertical surface portion due to a negative geotaxis of the flying insect, and to pass through said entry port so as to be trapped inside said trap chamber; a lower container serving as the attractive and inductive member, wherein an entire side circumference of the lower container is formed with an outer circumferential wall as the vertical surface portion; an upper cover which is mounted on the lower container so as to cover the lower container, and which is open at a bottom thereof; a horizontal spacing formed between an upper outside of the outer circumferential wall of the lower container and a lower inside of the upper cover, as the entry port for the flying insect to enter; a cylindrical fitting which is provided at a lower center of a top wall of the upper cover and which extends vertically downwards to a vicinity of a lower end position of the upper cover so as to be substantially level with the lower end position of the upper cover; and an elongated hollow-cylindrical supporting column which is provided in the lower container so as to rise from a center of the lower container, wherein the cylindrical fitting of the upper cover engages an upper end of the supporting column of the lower container.