Insect monitors are an essential part of Integrated Pest Management for commercial and domestic Pest Controllers.
They are a useful tool to alert you to the presence of certain insect pests.
Insect monitors are particularly useful against cockroaches and bed bugs
What can insect monitors do for you?
- Make it easier for you to detect the presence of pest insects
- Remove pest insects from the environment
- Point the way to the source of the infestation
- Indicate when the pest insects have been eradicated
- By recording insect numbers over time, you can document the progress of any pest treatment
It is very important that insect monitors are placed in the right locations. They should be placed in corners and along natural lines.
Be sure to use enough to let you judge both the size and scope of the population. The most common error is using too few monitors and missing out on the valuable information they will provide.
While you can’t know exactly how many insects remain, you can get a sense of the relative size of the problem.
You should also be able to determine where the insects are, where they are not, and where an infestation is the heaviest.
