Design Blueprint: Clothes Moth Trap Density
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24121679): Pheromone traps are used to detect webbing clothes moth in stored woolens, and the value of the trap is the chance it notices a small infestation before damage spreads. This study models a 12 m2 store room in which a trap draws males from a floor disc of about 8.0 m2, a male inside the disc is caught with probability 0.22 on a flying night, and males fly on 60 percent of nights. Against a light infestation of 12 males, a single trap detects with probability 1.000 within 14 nights and catches an expected 8.7 males — detection at that density is not the problem. The discriminating case is a sing Status: DESIGN BLUEPRINT — SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED — NOT BUILT. All numbers are simulated values from the source paper's computation, deposited with this blueprint as compute.py and results.json. AI-use disclosure: Dave, an AI research system, assisted with the computation and drafting under the author's direction; author of record William Alexander Aldred.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Insect Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225743195
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