The trap does the counting
A pheromone lure and co-attractant draw pests in. The trap logs each insect on its way in, with the time it arrived.
Pest pressure, mapped across your orchard. Let the traps do the counting.
Every trap counts the insects that enter it and logs the conditions around it, then reports to one dashboard. You see pest pressure while it's still a trend line, before it turns into damage.
- In field testing in the San Joaquin Valley of California, targeting Carpophilus truncatus
Spraying alone doesn't stop Carpophilus truncatus. TrapSense maps where pressure is highest.
Carpophilus truncatus lays its eggs as the hulls split, and its larvae tunnel into the kernel. Hull-split sprays alone haven't controlled it in UC ANR trials, likely due to poor spray penetration into the kernel.
Attracting and trapping can reduce populations, while also giving the grower valuable data. Researchers call mummy nut sanitation the key tool, and doing that more than once across every acre is expensive. TrapSense shows where the extra passes should go.
Our solution
The whole block in one view
Every trap on a satellite map with its latest count, the conditions around it, and how long it's been since it last reported.
Affordable at block scale
No cameras, no expensive hardware and no expensive subscription plans to pay for image processing and data uploads.
How TrapSense goes into a block
What sits in the orchard
A lure trap with a counter built in. It counts what the lure brings in, logs the conditions around it, and radios it all to the field gateway. Each detection shows up on your dashboard before anyone checks the trap.
The lure is the only part that needs attention: the pheromone and co-attractant are swapped every two weeks. The counter runs on its own solar-charged battery, with nothing to recharge or reset between visits.
See how it worksWhat you open in the morning
Traps on a satellite map, a card for each one, and history charts going back as far as the trap has been running. Data is visualized on a heatmap for you to easily see where pest pressure is highest. Try it below on a sample almond block.
The monitoring plan
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01 · About 2 weeks
Scouting survey
TrapSense traps go out in a grid across the block for one lure cycle. The result is a first map of where beetle activity is high and low.
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02 · 2 weeks or more
Focused fleet
The traps move into the high-pressure zones at closer spacing to outline the hotspots. Those zones get the targeted sanitation and sampling.
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03 · The rest of the season
Reduce and watch
Standard traps, with the lure but no sensor, go into the hot zones to pull beetles out. One or two TrapSense traps stay as monitors to show if pest pressure is declining.
Aim the extra pass. Keep the difference.
Mummy sanitation is the key tool against Carpophilus, and a second pass across every acre is expensive. The map shows which part of the block needs it, so the extra work goes only there.
$50/acre
Lost for each point of kernel damage, at 2025's 1,940 lb an acre and $2.60 a pound.
$159/acre
One sanitation pass: shaking, sweeping and shredding the mummies.
$11,925
Saved on a 100-acre block when the extra pass covers only the quarter the map flags.
Worked example · an extra sanitation pass on a 100-acre block
The aimed pass pays for itself if it prevents about 0.8 points of kernel damage across the block.
Illustrative figures from public averages: USDA NASS 2025 yield and price, and the UC Davis 2024 cost study for the northern San Joaquin Valley. They assume an extra pass costs what the standard one does and that a quarter of the block runs hot; a block's own map sets the real share.
Current focus
Early detection of Carpophilus truncatus in California almonds
TrapSense is in field testing against this invasive beetle, with traps reporting from a California almond block. The aim is to see it arrive rather than to find out later how long it had been there.
Piloting in 2027. We’re looking for growers and PCAs with Carpophilus history to run TrapSense in one block next season.