Preparation and installation of baits

Here are the recommendations from Plavilshchikov's "Determinant of Insects"::

"...The best bait is fermented honey. Honey is diluted slightly with water or sour beer (you can add a little raisins), let it stand, and when it ferments, the bait is ready. This honey is smeared on tree trunks or fence boards. It is more profitable to prepare "honey cakes". To do this, take pieces of rare cloth (gauze, burlap) and soak them with honey. Honey cakes are hung before dusk on trees or on stretched ropes. Often honey cakes are made in the form of small pieces of cloth (or soaked in honey slices of dried apples), which are then strung on twine, in the manner of dried mushrooms (but not thickly). After consumption, the mead is dried (if it is not caught every evening), and each time before fishing, it is again smeared with honey. The smell of honey flies a lot of scoops, tapeworms, moths, moths, and some hawkmoth fly. Butterflies are removed from honeybees, covering them with a stain or a glass. You can use this kind of bait to catch not only butterflies: honeybees hung during the day attract beetles, flies, and hymenoptera."

From myself, I will add that the author advises adding a little raisins to honey just so that it ferments faster (since natural yeast is almost always present on the surface of dried grapes). Nowadays, raisins can be replaced with a pinch of dry baking yeast, which immediately triggers the fermentation process of honey. You can dilute honey and fresh beer (not necessarily sour), and then add yeast to this "cocktail" and wait for fermentation.

As for the places where such traps are set, it is probably best to follow the recommendations that are usually applicable to light fishing - i.e. forest edges, clearings in large parks, village outskirts, etc., i.e. places where the catcher thinks butterflies (or other insects) should live.

This post was edited by Necrocephalus - 07.10.2006 15: 58

I mixed honey and beer. This mixture was with me for about a week. Then I soaked all sorts of rags with this mixture and hung all this stuff in the garden in the evening on the trees. At about 9 pm, Catocala nupta, Ochropleura plecta, Amathes c-nigrum and other commonplace stuff arrived. The case took place on August 18, 2005 in the Moscow region, the city of Ruza.

Yes, night fishing on baits is cool and profitable! True, I was going to catch it in the morning! Somewhere I read that you can still have any jam, eggs for some reason else! And how much honey and a bag of yeast will ferment approximately?

2 Tyomochin: no yeast needed in a sachet! You need to put a PINCH, and a small one-otherwise you will get a yeast mash instead of hop honey, on which drosophila flocks from all over the area will fly instead of butterflies. I think 3-4 days for honey fermentation should be enough, it's hard to say more precisely - it all depends on the specific conditions in which fermentation will take place. In any case, it is better to keep the eggplant with fermenting honey in a warm place, if possible, then fermentation will accelerate.

be careful with this. I once doravalsya-in the bucket all wandered-bucket put in a backpack, and it just opened the lid-I have a delicious sweet sticky briefcase

Is it really possible to catch something in October????

I don't know about you, but in the Crimea, when the night temperatures are above zero, there are chances to catch something all winter. I think that the bait should fly - you always want to eat:-)

How many liters of honey do you need to catch for, say, 14 days? I can't decide how much to buy!

How many liters of honey do you need to catch for, say, 14 days? I can't decide how much to buy!

Well, it depends on what kind of butterflies you're going to catch. If large and nocturnal-then for each butterfly not less than a liter. The technology of fishing is this-you put a barrel of honey in the middle of the field (preferably more expensive honey) and wait for butterflies. When they arrive, don't rush to catch them. They'll eat so much honey that they won't be able to fly away - so it's time for Tada to catch them.