Purdue University

Agricultural company receives 630,000 dollars to further development electronic insect trap

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Spensa Technologies Inc., a precision agriculture startup in Purdue Research Park, received a $630,000 SBIR Phase 2 grant from the National Science Foundation to expand its ...
Purdue University

New agricultural electronic insect trap saves labor, monitors insect data, reduces insecticide use

Tom Puterbaugh, Spensa Technologies vice president of products, and Spensa CEO Johnny Park prepare to install Z-Traps in an apple orchard. The Z-Trap is a Purdue discovery that has the potential to ...
University of Delaware

Trapping bugs, helping farmers

Since the early 1970s, the University of Delaware’s Cooperative Extension Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program has coordinated a statewide insect trapping program—which includes black light traps ...
Science Daily

Ants aquaplaning on a pitcher plant: Venezuelan pitcher plant uses wettable hairs to make insects slip into its deadly traps

Researchers have discovered that an insect-trapping pitcher plant in Venezuela uses its downward pointing hairs to create a 'water slide' on which insects slip to their death. An insect-trapping ...