The journey of FLYght UV LED Insect Light Traps over the past five years:
Giridhar Pai Associates’ business partner, Pestroniks Innovations Pte. Ltd. (Pestroniks) of Singapore, launched the FLYght Duo in 2021, adding it to the first version of its FLYght UV LED Insect Light Trap (ILT) range, the FLYght One.
The customers’ response to the FLYght Duo was awe and wonder as some of them saw a UV LED ILT for the first time.
Though Pestroniks had worked for many years on the FLYght range and extensively tested the FLYght Duo before its launch, it had to convince customers to switch from conventional UV fluorescent tube ILTs (both fly killers and flycatchers) to FLYght UV LED ILTs.
To use an analogy, Pestroniks was attempting to switch customers from internal combustion engine (ICE) cars to electrical vehicles (EVs).
Over the past five years, te shift from UV fluorescent ILTs to UV LED ILTs has been gradual, with Pestroniks’ FLYght Traps now being among the leading global brands in the segment.
The superior performance of FLYght One and FLYght Duo and their durability have made them the choice of discerning customers in India, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Maldives, the United States, and several others.
Customer response to FLYght UV LED Insect Traps:
When customers first saw the FLYght Duo, some wondered how such a compact trap could trap houseflies.
They couldn’t see the FLYght Duo‘s UV LEDs, glueboards, or trapped houseflies as the trap’s design prevents a viewer from seeing those even when in front of the trap and in close vicinity.
Some customers could not understand the FLYght Duo’s patented bio-visual enhancer (bio-VE+) technology, which is the unique aspect of the trap that makes it stand out from other UV LED ILTs in the market.
Customer education about FLYght Traps by Pestroniks and GPA:
To create more awareness about its UV LED ILT range, Pestroniks followed up the FLYght Duo launch with extensive customer education through its distributors like Giridhar Pai Associates LLP (GPA) in India.
In 2023, Pestroniks released videos of FLYght Duo features and maintenance to enable an easy understanding of the product among its customers. Pestroniks also released videos of its first UV LED ILT, FLYght One’s features and maintenance.
By 2024, because of the Pestroniks, GPA and Pestroniks distributors’ marketing efforts, customers across the globe had adopted the FLYght Duo as their UV LED ILTs for monitoring houseflies at their premises.
However, even now, Pestroniks and GPA feel that many global customers need to be convinced about how a FLYght Duo works!
Pestroniks and GPA decide on a FLYght Duo time-lapse video:
Brainstorming for ideas for demonstrating a FLYght Duo’s functioning, Pestroniks and GPA teams decided there was no better way to show a potential customer the FLYght Duo’s performance than a time-lapse video.
Creating the FLYght Duo:
To create a time-lapse video, Pestroniks commissioned a highly skilled videographer to capture a FLYght Duo attracting houseflies in a closed room with artificial light to replicate the light conditions at businesses that use ILTs.
For creating the time-lapse video, the number of houseflies released was similar to those in standard fly catch tests used for ILT evaluation.
The videographer recorded the FLYght Duo’s housefly catch for over an hour and compressed it in the embedded video for about a minute.
What can you see in the incredible FLYght Duo time-lapse video?
We want our blog post readers to watch the above incredible time-lapse video of the FLYght Duo attracting and trapping houseflies.
After the visible blue and invisible UV light from the FLYght Duo’s bio-VE+ insert attract houseflies, you can see them hovering in and around the trap.
Eventually, the houseflies drop down and are trapped on the FLYght Duo’s glueboard. The FLYght Duo’s upper glueboard also traps houseflies though houseflies that fly up get stuck to that glueboard
The FLYght Duo used two halves of a universal glueboard and both trap houseflies as we have explained above.
The picture of the universal glueboard full of houseflies at the end of the one-hour exposure highlights the incredible housefly attraction of the FLYght Duo.
Why Pestroniks didn’t film the FLYght Duo time-lapse video at a customer’s premises?
Testing ILTs like the FLYght Duo is a tricky matter.
In a customer’s premises, we have no control over the number of houseflies the FLYght Duo is exposed to, as that depends on the season, the exteriors and the presence of housefly barriers like insect screens and air curtains.
Hence, Pestroniks conducts fly catch testing of FLYght traps in controlled light, humidity, and temperature conditions.
For the FLYght Duo time-lapse video, the Pestroniks team released laboratory-cultured houseflies into the room where the FLYght Duo was placed for filming.
Even with the regular light in the room, after houseflies were released, the FLYght Duo attracted them due to its bio-VE+ insert that emits blue light and UV light, which are highly attractive to houseflies.
Houseflies hovered over the FLYght Duo and entered it, attracted by the blue and UV light. Once inside the houseflies moved around by flying and crawling on the bio-VE+ insert. Eventually, the houseflies inside the FLYght Duo got stuck to one of the two glueboards inside the trap.
World’s first time-lapse video of an Insect Light Trap:
In this blogpost, Pestroniks and GPA proudly present the world’s first time-lapse video of an Insect Light Trap through the FLYght Duo time-lapse video.
The FLYght Duo time-lapse video shows it is attracting houseflies and then trapping them, as evident from the glueboards full of houseflies at the end of just one hour of housefly trapping.
If you want to purchase the FLYght Duo UV LED Insect Light Trap, contact us with your requirements, and we shall immediately respond to you with the required information.
Other FLYght Traps available with GPA:
GPA markets Pestroniks UV LED Insect Light Traps, including the FLYght Duo and the FLYght One.
The FLYght One and FLYght Duo share the same features, such as eight UV LEDs, a bio-VE+ Insert, and metallic bodies.
However, the FLYght One is made of powder-coated mild steel and is available in black.
Customers can choose between the FLYght One and the FLYght Duo, depending on their use.