New Synergy Semiochemicals Multitrap System

Please note: Multitrap components and collection cups are not backwards compatible with old style Lindgren funnel traps

Funnel vs. Panel Trap

Synergy’s new Multitrap platform (patent pending) allows you to configure a panel or a funnel trap and to alter these as your needs change. When deciding between a funnel vs. a panel trap, if cost is an issue, the panel trap may be a better choice.

Choose Number and Color of Funnels

We have each part of the Multitrap available as a separate component so that you can custom build your trap.

Synergy Semiochemicals Multitrap Color Choice

Color is a critical attribute when trapping Bruprestids like Emerald ash borer. The Synergy Multitrap System will empower experimenters to change trap colors easily when configured as a panel trap. Commercially available corrugated polypropylene (Coroplast) is available in a rainbow of colors and can readily be cut and mounted in the Multitrap panel trap.

Synergy Multitrap funnel traps are available in black, EAB green and purple.

Choose Size of panels

Our standard panel dimensions are 4.25″ x 24″ / 10.8 cm x 61 cm.

Large panel dimensions for use with the Allison Collar are 8.0″ x 24″ / 20.3 x 61 cm.

Synergy Semiochemicals Multitrap Allison Collar Option

The Synergy Semiochemicals Multitrap funnel or panel trap can utilize the optional “Allison Collar”. The addition of the large collar can significantly improve captures of Cerambycids, large wood boring beetles such as Monochamus species and Bruprestids.

Choose Wet or Dry Collection Cups

Our newly designed insect collection cups have been enlarged to hold bigger beetle catches.

The connection to the bottom funnel on the trap is no longer via a click and lock system. We now have a an easy drop-in assembly with no lip needed on the cup. This eliminates cups breaking off the bottom funnel like some of the old ones did.

Each trap is sold with a newly designed wet or dry cup. How do I choose which style cup to use?

The dry collection cup has a big metal screen in the bottom which is more effective for drainage.  Inserting small pieces of insect-catching strips in the bottom is an easy way to prevent beetles from crawling or flying out of the cup.

The wet collection cup has drainage holes on two sides of the cup to prevent overflow of liquid such as rainwater or antifreeze (used to kill and preserve beetle catches). The advantage of a wet cup is that beetles caught in antifreeze are kept intact for identification, sorting and counting. The beetles captured are generally not dismembered from predators nor damaged from the cups being banged and knocked about on the trap. Furthermore, the antifreeze in the bottom of the cup can be reused. Wet cup contents can be filtered through a paper paint filter, capturing the beetles on the paper while the antifreeze is collected and reused in the cup.