E-mail: Password: Create an Account Recover password

About Authors Contacts Get involved Русская версия

show

Can I lure moths with a currency detector?

Community and Forum → Insects biology and faunistics → Can I lure moths with a currency detector?

OreSama, 26.01.2017 19:00

I was thinking about a portable moth attractor that could be obtained at a high price from any hole in the world, fed with the most banal food sources and carried freely on an airplane, and my eye somehow caught on the currency's UV detectors. Their price is modest, if necessary, you can take at least a bundle. But will they work?

Since "I'm not a real welder", but just want to see-take pictures from the hotel balcony of foreign moths, hellish units with lead batteries and lamps that kill all living things, for obvious reasons, are not suitable.

Comments

26.01.2017 19:04, niyaz

Also use an ultraviolet nail dryer to try to attract butterflies.

26.01.2017 19:25, ИНО

How Many Watts?

26.01.2017 19:41, OreSama

4 watts

27.01.2017 23:21, lepidopterolog

Perfectly caught on such detectors in Armenia and Turkey, all groups of butterflies flew.

27.01.2017 23:50, ИНО

With this power, you will not have to go to the balcony, but to climb into the wilds away from the slightest light pollution (at the same time, you can look for scorpions, they glow bright turquoise in UV). Although, I really don't know what your foreign hotel is illuminated with, maybe torches, then it will be fine smile.gif

28.01.2017 5:05, vasiliy-feoktistov

You can read the topic: http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=72363
There's also something about luring people to the detectors, if my memory serves me right smile.gif

This post was edited by vasiliy-feoktistov - 28.01.2017 06: 48

28.01.2017 17:35, OreSama

With this power, you will not have to go to the balcony, but to climb into the wilds away from the slightest light pollution (at the same time, you can look for scorpions, they glow bright turquoise in UV)

No, I definitely won't go into the wilds. There's a lot of cute little snakes out there in the woods like ribbon kraits.

29.01.2017 0:57, ИНО

In this case, alas and ah, but you will have to shine the lamp at least 20 watts, and preferably 100 or 200. What is the problem, there are no sockets in the rooms?

New comment

Note: you should have a Insecta.pro account to upload new topics and comments. Please, create an account or log in to add comments.

* Our website is multilingual. Some comments have been translated from other languages.

Random species of the website catalog

Insecta.pro: international entomological community. Terms of use and publishing policy.

Project editor in chief and administrator: Peter Khramov.

Curators: Konstantin Efetov, Vasiliy Feoktistov, Svyatoslav Knyazev, Evgeny Komarov, Stan Korb, Alexander Zhakov.

Moderators: Vasiliy Feoktistov, Evgeny Komarov, Dmitriy Pozhogin, Alexandr Zhakov.

Thanks to all authors, who publish materials on the website.

© Insects catalog Insecta.pro, 2007—2024.

Species catalog enables to sort by characteristics such as expansion, flight time, etc..

Photos of representatives Insecta.

Detailed insects classification with references list.

Few themed publications and a living blog.