Abstract: Pitfall traps, coasters, devices, apparatus, systems and methods for capturing crawling insects, such as bed bugs, and/or for preventing the insects from climbing up furniture legs to furniture such as beds, cots, chairs and any type of furniture where a person would rest or sleep. Smooth slick surfaces and/or pesticide treated surfaces can be located on underside facing horizontal or angled surfaces used with or without sticky surfaces which all can be used to prevent insect and bed bug travel and assist in helping trap the insects and bed bugs.

Abstract: Traps, devices, systems, compositions, and methods for trapping bed bugs, and similar insects with sticky traps having a smooth perimeter surface around the sticky surface, where the smooth perimeter surface can be abraded to a selected texture having both smoothness and roughness qualities. The surfaces are textured so that bed bugs are not able to use the surfaces to pull themselves from the sticky surface, and the textured surface is not so smooth as to cause the bed bugs to avoid the textured surface.

Abstract: An insect trap that is effective for Cimex I. comprises an area of rigid pillars and/or hooks where these features extend from a base. The density of the features can vary from being sufficient to inhibit the trajectory of an insect through the features or to reside and travel on the top of the features. The features can be of a thickness of less than or about that of the insect's legs and the height of the features is at least the height of the insect. The features can be of a height of about the cross-section of an insect's leg. The features can be of a thickness of four microns or less and provide a plastron surface such that the surface can be employed in conjunction with a holding chamber and oriented where a portion of the surface is vertical or inverted such that the insect's foot-tip cannot adhere to or be supported by the surface.