Insect baits

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16.05.2010 17:57, Black Coleopter

6. Medoviki

Moths can also be caught all summer on baits. The best bait is fermented honey. Honey is diluted slightly with water or sour beer (sometimes a little raisins are added), 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 so-called "honey cakes". To do this, take pieces of rare cloth-gauze, burlap-and soak them with honey; in the south, it is better to take cloth or even felt, since here evaporation is stronger, and it is important that the fabric is more saturated with honey. Before impregnation, the fabric is thoroughly washed. Honey cakes are hung before dusk on trees or on stretched ropes, or wrapped around tree trunks. Often medoviki 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) and each time before fishing again smeared with honey. Old honeybees, and dark ones at that, work better than new or light ones. The smell of honey flies a lot of scoops, tapeworms, moth flies, and sometimes some hawkmoth flies. Butterflies are removed from honeybees, covering them with a stain or a glass, and those flying away are caught with a net. Especially strongly fly butterflies on the bait on dark cloudy nights.
Instead of honey, you can use other baits: sugar solution with apple essence or sour beer, sour raspberry jam, melon slices, syrup (sugar) from willow flowers (in spring). This kind of bait can catch not only butterflies: hung during the day, they attract other insects — hymenoptera, some flies, some beetles. [2]

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01.10.2010 18:00, Konung

I would like to share my experience on using baits for moths. They were made from a mix of all kinds of fruits-bananas, apples, peaches, melons, grapes, plums, pears. It is desirable that the fruit was slightly spoiled, crumpled, sour. All this is ground with a blender or in a meat grinder into porridge. The mixture should be kept warm for at least three days. the day before fishing, honey, sugar, and a little yeast are added to the bait. This fermented mixture can be spread with a brush on tree trunks, or soaked in all sorts of rags, bandages, etc.and hung on the bushes.
Illustrations:
that's how we smeared it on the trunks

here's what flew in (Catocala neonympha and Spaelotis ravida)

Cirrhia gilvago:

Scoliopteryx libatrix

such a motley campaign could be observed by midnight:

a bunch of cheering Spaelotis ravida:

more scoops:

catocals fly perfectly on these baits:

What is characteristic is that butterflies that get drunk on this bait, then sit quietly, as if intoxicated, do not fly away, even if you touch them with your finger. They just crawl lazily from place to place. So collecting them is not problematic - you just need to substitute the stain and push the desired instance there.

This post was edited by Konung - 01.10.2010 18: 04

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