US 2025/0107510 A1 · SMALL INSECT FILTER GRID

Abstract

A small insect filter grid may spare bugs of a smaller size and kill larger bugs. The small insect filter grid may protect and spare a honeybee colony while killing the Asian Giant Hornet which can decimate a honeybee population. The small insect filter grid may provide a protective cage having a mesh grid pattern that may be placed around a honeybee hive. The protective cage may be electrically powered to kill the larger bugs such as the Asian Giant Hornet. The honeybees and other smaller insects are not large enough to touch both a positive (+) and a negative (−) rail of the mesh at the same time, and accordingly, will not bridge the circuit to activate the power within the grid and be electrocuted. Asian Giant Hornets are large enough to touch both the positive and negative rails to bridge the circuit so that they are electrocuted.

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Dependent claims

A small insect filter grid comprising:

a protective cage having a mesh grid pattern that surrounds a beehive, the protective cage comprising:
a non-conductive material that forms the mesh grid pattern;
a plurality of positive rails;
and
a plurality of negative rails, the plurality of positive rails and the plurality of negative rails alternating and interspersed within the non-conductive material;
an electric cage driver circuit that powers the protective cage when one of the plurality of positive rails and one of the plurality of negative rails are contacted at the same time by a large insect to electrocute the large insect;
and
a power source that powers the electric cage driver circuit, wherein honeybees enter and leave the protective cage without one of the plurality of positive rails and one of the plurality of negative rails being contacted at the same time.

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