Tick trap

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1991-08-26

1993-03-02

Rowan, Kurt C.

Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying

Traps

Insect

43107, 43114, A01M 114, A01M 100

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051898306

ABSTRACT:
A tick trap comprises a raised base having inclined walls at each end, an upper portion having sticky tick trapping surface and an upwardly extending box-like portion having a plurality of holes around the lower surface thereof, a rectangular rain guard extending outwardly from the box at a spaced distance from the surface of the base and a hinged lid over the open end of the box. The box includes a carbon dioxide cannister which is periodically activated by batteries to emit CO.sub.2 from the portholes about the box to attract ticks onto the sticky surface where they are destroyed.

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R. H. Wright, Why Mosquito Repellents Repel, Scientific American, vol. 233, Jul. 1975 pp. 104-111.

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