The United States of America As Represented by the Secretary of

Story Chemical Corporation

Dicky D Hardee

Theodore B Davich

Earl B Mitchell

A boll weevil trap comprises a support means, preferably colored or painted daylight fluorescent yellow, an open-ended hollow guiding means releaseably mounted on the upper end of said support means, perforated hollow trapping means detachably affixed at its open lower end to about the open upper end of said guiding means, said guiding means being adapted at about its open lower end to be releaseably affixed to the upper end of said support means to provide an annular space between the outside of said support means and the inside of the open lower end of said guiding means, the opening provided at the upper end of said guiding means being substantially smaller than the opening provided at the lower end of said guiding means, the opening at the upper end of said guiding means extending within the interior space of said trapping means. A method of attracting and collecting or trapping boll weevils employing the above-described boll weevil trap comprises placing the boll weevil trap in a location where boll weevils may be present, attracting the boll weevil to said trap by associating said trap with the male boll weevil aggregating pheromone, grandlure. When the boll weevil is attracted thereto by the combination of the daylight fluorescent yellow color of said trap and the pheromone, the boll weevil moves positively geotropically upwardly on said trap into a perforated collecting or trapping means provided at the upper location or end of said trap.

Boll weevil trap

A new improved apparatus for capturing boll weevils comprising a cylindrical base attached to a wire inverted funnel which leads into a rectangular or square clear retaining container with a grandlure attractant therein.

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Starkville, MS, United States of America

Dicky D Hardee