The invention is to provide a harmful insect capturing trap (50) and a harmful insect capturing method capable of efficiently capturing and/or controlling a harmful insect attracted into a container (51).The present invention provides a harmful insect trap (50) comprising a container (51) having an aperture (56), and a plurality of gel bodies (54) contained in the container (51) in a layered state and containing a harmful insect attractant (60),wherein a gap enabling entry of the harmful insect is formed between the gel bodies in the layered state.
