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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2014
University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Gainesville, FL (US);
Benjamin A. Hottel, Gainesville, FL (US);
Roberto M. Pereira, Gainesville, FL (US);
Philip G. Koehler, Gainesville, FL (US);
University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Gainsville, FL (US);
Abstract
Traps, devices, systems, compositions, and methods for trapping bed bugs, and similar insects with sticky traps having a smooth perimeter surface around the sticky surface, where the smooth perimeter surface can be abraded to a selected texture having both smoothness and roughness qualities. The surfaces are textured so that bed bugs are not able to use the surfaces to pull themselves from the sticky surface, and the textured surface is not so smooth as to cause the bed bugs to avoid the textured surface.