Catching glassworms

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guest: kovyl, 10.10.2008 17:59

Actually, the subject. Who-n. does it do this purposefully? or is he content with just random finds? I know that in general the most productive collections of this group are for pheromones, but where can I get them? Who else can recommend what?

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10.10.2008 22:28, okoem

I found it very slowly walking through the meadow and carefully examining all the blades of grass, everything that sat on them and that flew between them. It was possible to find only a couple of butterflies (Bembecia ichneumoniformis) per hour.
Glassworms often fly low over the grass, and it is very easy to distinguish them by their characteristic flight.
Also, in some localities, a certain type of glassworm (Chamaesphecia sp.) can occur quite often - here you walk and scare it out from under your feet.
Tinthia myrmosaeformis is quite common without special searches.
But of course, that would be so easy to notice them among other scurrying animals, you need training.
And on the flowers from the Crimean glass houses I met only once Paranthrene tabaniformis on mint and even Chamaesphecia schmidtiiformis sometimes comes across on drooping sage.

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15.02.2012 23:13, okoem

My experience of catching glassworms for pheromones.
I choose warm sunny weather with a slight breeze. I find a dry tree or a long dry branch on the slope, so that it is against the background of the sky, so the flying glass panes will be more noticeable. On wires, I hang pheromones on this branch (s) approximately every half meter or meter. I sit down under a nearby tree in the shade, put a net next to it and wait for 15-20 minutes, watching pheromones swaying in the wind against the sky. If there is no summer , then I hide pheromones so that they don't run out of steam in vain. If there are years, then in a few minutes the males begin to fly up. They circle around pheromones and sometimes try to sit on them. Here you need to act quickly, have time to catch before they understand the deception and fly away.

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