How to catch Hymenoptera?

They usually sit on flowers for a long time-they are caught without problems. Sometimes you can even take a bumblebee by the wings.
You can collect them sleeping from flowers early in the morning.
You can lay out a sweet watermelon peel and catch it with a net (collect it with a net) or smear anything with something sweet (jam).......
Or take a jar smeared inside with something sweet and delicious smelling thread, they will climb there themselves.
Large wasps often crawl or sit on tree trunks, aquatic plants sticking out of the water.
That's when these wasps fly, I would not dare to catch them.

I've been working on bee-wasps for a quarter of a century and I haven't come up with anything better than catching flowers. Wasps (especially sphecids) adore umbrella bees, interesting species of bees are visited by flowers of villi and bluebells. And of course, complex-colored ones - I caught about fifty eardrums on one dandelion.

It is good to catch bee-wasps at their nests. Many eardrums nest in the ground. Quarries, ravines, or any other places where the vegetation cover is disturbed are a good place for hunting. It is worth paying attention to dry trees - in the old passages of beetles, various bees-wasps often arrange their nests. A huge plus is that they usually fly up to the nest loaded with prey and are therefore clumsy (much easier to catch).

what kind of elephants, stingers or riders??

what kind of elephants, stingers or riders??

Both of them. But more interesting are the stinging ones.

Burrowing wasps are successfully caught on artificial nests. Bundles of hollow plants are hung and laid out. AVA can tell you more about this )
Well, riders are standard: mowing, Malaise traps, yellow plates.

Dear colleagues! I can't tell you anything about all the webs, but it's best to really collect burrowing wasps on flowers. All fishing is to find a good clearing full of compound flowers (bodyak or thistle) or umbrella plants. In such a place you can sit for a long time, and in principle you do not need to walk far, since wasps fly well and are able to overcome quite considerable distances in search of food. The second option is to search for nesting sites - in the sand or in bushes. You can make artificial nests-bundles of plants with a hollow stem (raspberries) are cut into 0.5 m pieces and hung. After settling, open and get both the prey of wasps and the imagos themselves with their offspring. Use my experience

So. Now for another question. Catch it, then I caught it. I put each animal in a separate flask. When I arrived home, of course, everyone died (I was in the field for 2-5 days). Here's the question. When they died, their wings began to stick out in different directions. How do I put my wings back in place? Connect them or something?

Kingsnake.. soak and fix with pins on the straightener. Wait until it dries.

Kingsnake.. soak and fix with pins on the straightener. Wait until it dries.

Damn it! I hadn't thought of that. Thank you very much.

WHO IS READY TO GIVE A FAN OF ICHNEUMONOIDS??? OR CHANGE A LITTLE)))

It is better to catch, as mentioned above, on flowers. I can tell by the vespids-baits (like jam) mostly come across banal species, like the German or common wasp. But the inflorescences of plants, especially umbrella plants, are a good place for finds. For example, the inflorescences of snyti-visited by many folding-winged animals, including rare ones.

Bumblebees have problems with freezing - they sweat, get wet... I transfer fresh pieces of paper and fry them, but a good method is to put the bumblebees separately in each box, which is appropriate. it is signed - on what flower, for example.. And put it in the freezer. The material is perfect. Moreover, after ethyl acetate, the material is not suitable for genetic investigation.