10/19/2026
This greenhouse utilizes sticky traps equipped alongside their irrigation booms, resulting in a clever, dual-purpose IPM technique used primarily in greenhouse farming. As the automated watering boom travels along its rails over the crops, the attached sticky cards serve two major functions simultaneously: mass pest trapping and labor saved!
◇ Disturbance-Based Trapping: Many greenhouse pests (like thrips, whiteflies, fungus gnats, and shore flies) rest on the upper foliage. The physical movement of the boom and the slight air disturbance or water coming down scares the insects into flight. Once airborne, they are immediately drawn to and trapped by the passing cards.
◇ Because the boom is already automated to run on a schedule, you collect pest data and suppress populations across the entire facility without manually walking the aisles to check individual traps.
◇ Uniform Scouting: Instead of hanging stationary cards that only monitor a fixed radius, attaching a long sticky strip or a sequence of cards to the irrigation boom allows you to sample the insect population across the entire length of the greenhouse bay.
