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Please advise us about traps

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guest: Brandashmyg, 27.04.2007 15:11

Colleagues!
I came up with the following idea: try to catch insects on a sticky medium (something like sticky tape for catching flies). The idea is that this way you can (or can't?) catch every little thing, otherwise it is difficult - or even unassembled.
Maybe someone has some thoughts/experience on this. The main problem is to choose the environment (actually "Velcro") so that it a) allows you to catch an insect (easily manufactured/purchased, retains its properties), b) allows you to clean the insect later (ideally, it dissolves in alcohol, because it is planned to collect everything in alcohol).
I will be grateful for your thoughts/advice.

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27.04.2007 17:47, Proctos

The idea is not new, fishing on a sticky surface is used to study the burrowing fauna of rodents, and specifically mosquitoes, carriers of leishmaniasis.
Here is also a quote from Tsurikov:
A. Fixed with glue
(a) on the ground (poles with glue (Bramson, 1896); adhesive frame for recording beetles (Shurovenkov, 1977); glue tubes for catching fleas in animal burrows (Fasulati,1971));
b) on the surface of water bodies (floating trap for nascent insects (Cusman, 1971)). 1983);
c) on tree trunks (sticky glue rings (Fig. 1) (Chuvakhin, 1957); trap for studying the migration of small dendrobionts (author));
d) above ground level in the air (glue shields (Beglyarov and Tansky, 1959) ; method of catching horseflies (Trojan, 1958); fishing line traps for studying winged aphid populations (Labonne, 1983)).
http://www.zin.ru/ANIMALIA/COLEOPTERA/RUS/tsurik4.htm

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28.04.2007 13:28, guest: Brandashmyg

The idea is not new, fishing on a sticky surface is used to study the burrowing fauna of rodents, and specifically mosquitoes, carriers of leishmaniasis.
Here is also a quote from Tsurikov:
A. Fixed with glue
(a) on the ground (poles with glue (Bramson, 1896); adhesive frame for recording beetles (Shurovenkov, 1977); glue tubes for catching fleas in animal burrows (Fasulati,1971));
b) on the surface of water bodies (floating trap for nascent insects (Cusman, 1971)). 1983);
c) on tree trunks (sticky glue rings (Fig. 1) (Chuvakhin, 1957); trap for studying the migration of small dendrobionts (author));
d) above ground level in the air (glue shields (Beglyarov and Tansky, 1959) ; method of catching horseflies (Trojan, 1958); fishing line traps for studying winged aphid populations (Labonne, 1983)).
http://www.zin.ru/ANIMALIA/COLEOPTERA/RUS/tsurik4.htm


Thank you very much, we will think about it...

28.04.2007 13:33, Dinusik

I wouldn't risk it. For taxa where xetotaxy is important, it is precisely these xets that can be lost.

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28.04.2007 14:02, guest: Brandashmyg

Come on, khety, you can lose your legs and arms here... I mean, how to separate a fragile insect from Velcro. And Tsurikov (see above link to zin.ru) there is everything except the main thing-how and from what to do it all.

I'm going to buy fly protection Velcro and experiment with placing Nauphoeta cinerea on it and then separating it.

28.04.2007 14:56, Dinusik

I hope you'll share your experience later. As far as I remember, from long-standing children's experiments, you can separate the insect, but how to wash the Velcro? She completely glues her whiskers and paws together.

28.04.2007 17:44, Proctos

Try for washing: water, alcohol, ethyl acetate, acetone
I think that acetone will take glue

29.04.2007 2:12, Dinusik

And after acetone, how much will remain of the insect's color? Anyway, why reinvent the wheel? It seems to me that there are many other ways of fishing.

29.04.2007 17:41, Proctos

Acetone does not harm the color of insects. On the contrary, it is used to fix it.
And sticky traps are effective for catching small, passive flying insects. In addition, the yellow adhesive surface intensely attracts many insects. This property is used to control pests, such as fruit flies on plantations. Hanging a huge number of industrially manufactured sticky yellow ribbons.

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04.01.2008 13:34, Cosmos

And for scientists who are stuck in cranberries up to the most..., for catching gall and thrips, glasses smeared with vaseline-glycerin are suitable ))) I've heard that before ) Who would be interested in analyzing such groups? - write in PM - I will personally convey my admiration)))

05.01.2008 2:18, Coleopter

Adhesive traps are sheets of thick polyethylene or other materials (cloth, paper, etc.) soaked in hot molasses sugar solution and attached to a tree, vertical board, or house wall at different heights. As attracting substances, jam and beer can be added to boiling water (Dunaev E. A., 1997. Metody ekologo-entomologicheskikh issledovaniy [Methods of ecological and entomological research].)
Another option: mash the rosin in a mortar, add castor oil. Proportion by eye, consistency of sour cream. It is applied on paper. Remove with a brush dipped in alcohol. (Semenov V. B. lich.
P.S. none of these methods have been used by me personally in practice.
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05.01.2008 10:20, Alexandr Rusinov

A lot of small beetles stick in the spring on the resin protruding on the stumps. And the resin is removed elementary-with alcohol.
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