PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thin-shaped electrostatic field-generating device capable of maintaining the electrified state, exhibiting high catching performance independent of moisture, manifesting catching effects or repellent effects against flying and moving organisms such as spores or microbial cells of plant pathogenic microbes being sources of plant disease and insect damage, and plant pest insects, enabling long-term operation because of hardly causing plugging, having improved air permeability, and securing the safety, and to provide a method for eliminating the flying and moving organisms by using the device.SOLUTION: The electrostatic field-generating device is used by applying a prescribed DC-high voltage between a first conductor 1 and a second conductor 2 by parallelly arranging and holding at an interval the first conductor 1 obtained by covering the surface of a conductor having electroconductivity with a dielectric substance 3 to which an agent for heightening the electroconductivity is added, and the second conductor 2 having the electroconductivity and not subjected to the surface covering.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】帯電状態を維持し、湿度に依存しない高い捕捉力を得ることができる装置であり、植物病虫害の発生原因となる植物病原菌の胞子又は菌体や、植物害虫等の飛動生物に対して捕捉効果、又は忌避効果を発揮し、目詰まりが起こりにくく長期稼動が可能で、通気性を向上させることができ、また薄型で安全性の確保された、静電場発生装置及びそれを用いた飛動生物除去方法を提供する。【解決手段】導電性を有する導体表面に、導電性を高める剤を添加した誘電体物質3を被覆した第1導体1と、表面被覆をしていない導電性を有する第2導体2とを離隔並設して保持し、第1導体1と第2導体2との間に所定の直流高電圧を印加することを特徴とする。【選択図】図1
