Staging surface flying insect trap

A method for eliminating or modifying insect pests comprising:

• (a) providing or utilizing a surface for said insects to be attracted to, so that a plurality of said insects either congregate directly upon or remain within several body lengths distance from said surface over a period of time, during which time period insects within the general vicinity are encouraged to increase the numbers gathered to said surface through a continuing attraction of new arrivals while the insects already gathered to said surface are left alone, remaining unhindered and unmolested and retaining their physical abilities,
• (b) attracting said insects to said surface by way of at least one of the effects or attractants selected from the group consisting of the emission, the transmission, the reflection, the absorption/re-emission of electromagnetic energy, acoustic vibration, water vapor, carbon dioxide, pheromones, octanol, nonanal, sulcatone, goldenrod, milkweed, other chemical attractants, other biological attractants,
• (c) providing at or near said surface, either automatically or with human initiation, the loss of freedom of movement of said insects or their physical degradation, by way of the application of at least one cause of said loss or freedom or degradation selected from the group consisting of being removed by vacuum and transported for further disposition, starvation, oxygen deprivation, dehydration, severe overheating, air under-pressure, air over-pressure, immersion in a fluid, excess physical contact pressure, mobility limiting substance, toxic substance, destructive acoustic radiation, electric shock, dismemberment, coherent energy beam, destructive electromagnetic radiation, biochemical modification, genetic modification,
• (d) providing for the final disposition of said insects by way of at least one member selected from the group consisting of sequestering biologically viable, biologically degraded or terminated insects in a throwaway container until an appropriate time, sequestering said insects in a burnable container for complete destruction, sequestering said insects in a container or confining volume that enters into communication with a substance or effect that causes said insects' ultimate termination or destruction, causing any remains of said terminated or degraded insects to enter the outside natural environment to be ultimately disposed, causing biochemically or genetically modified mosquitoes to enter the outside natural environment,
• whereby said insect pests are efficiently eliminated or modified in large numbers.