Catocalas catching with baits

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09.08.2019 13:38, коты

Good day, colleagues. Due to numerous requests, I am opening
a new topic. I am aware that I am out of place, but otherwise those interested may
miss it. Then I'll move it to the correct location.

Hello. I read about this lifak last year, was very happy and cherished this dream for a whole year, that I finally know how to catch Catocals and other moths. I always had problems with the night because I don't have the ability to catch the light, and to be honest, we fly to the light very reluctantly. So I don't even see the point in bothering to buy a generator, etc. Although I know that we have moths, they fall into the crown traps in quite large numbers.

Contrary to expectations, July turned out to be cold and rainy, it was really cold at night, so when it got warmer in early August, I immediately got down to business. True, I could not find exactly hemp ropes on sale (and I never found them), I even connected my wife to the search, but mostly colored, synthetic ropes and ropes are sold here. Then my wife bought 2 skeins of jute, because the store laughed when she asked about cannabis and confidently explained to her that most likely she needed this. This is such a thin crap, called twine like, for rewinding parcels, etc. Well, what can I do, I began to improvise something like a rope from this jute - I folded it several times, pulled it in places, it turned out to be normal. I made 3 such devices, soaked them for 4 hours in a mixture of beer, wine, honey and acid, although I calculated the proportions based on 1 liter, based on the above 2, everything seemed to turn out OK, it stank of this mixture noticeably. In the late afternoon I went to the forest, to the oak grove, in which I had long intended to fulfill my plan.

Already at dusk (I didn't calculate the time a little, because I was still engaged in other traps), I wrapped 3 oak trees with moss as written at a distance of about 10 m from each other and waited nearby. The oak grove is exactly the same as the TS advised in his post - it's like a clearing on a mountainside with infrequent oaks, but close enough to shade it. At least during the day there is no direct sun. Catocals (at least Sponsored) there are present on any, t k I caught them during the day. I hung all this farm around 21-21. 30, and the smell was quite strong, when I hung it on the 1st tree, I even saw a large butterfly flying in the crown, it was 99 % Katokala (the joke itself is that several days later I caught it in the afternoon on the same tree), well I think now "the heat will go")). Well, fuck it, I waited for an hour-I checked with a lantern (the night was very dark, moonless, from the lighting only the lights of a distant city slightly cast light on this slope), so I periodically had to turn on the lantern to see something, in the sense of the presence of insects, in general, what a long time to write, I waited in this clearing where then until 1 am, like this, hiding and periodically checking all 3 traps, during all this time one dead moth from the genus Hypomecis arrived, which we have in bulk all year round and a lot of almost adult grasshopper larvae, brown and green. The joke is that the Moth and grasshoppers were present only on 1 oak tree, where Katokala flew, on 2 others nothing at all, complete zero.

After 1 am, I decided to move to Dr Polyanka. There was still liquid in the bag in which I was carrying the ropes, so I soaked them again (it smelled quite strongly of this liquid, but also of the ropes themselves) and moved to a completely dry slope with limestone and rare grass and even more rare oaks, which is well lit by the sun during the daytime. I also saw Katokal there during the day. I hung up the bait again, and in addition, I poured a lot of liquid over it all. Well, again nothing. Absolutely nothing came, except for a couple of small things, the size of a moth. Well, this is generally for true gourmets and aesthetes, but clearly not for me))

Now, of course, a very predictable and banal question will follow - what did I do wrong?

I have one thought myself - the smell of the ropes themselves. When soaked, it becomes very distinct, almost as strong as the smell of the bait. Maybe it scares away butterflies? Even the liquid drained after soaking retained this smell and is very different from the original one.

Well, what to do, in the morning, when the sky began to brighten, I took off all this farm, wrapped it in a bag and went home completely broken)))

After that, I myself began to search with great frenzy for hemp rope in household stores, etc. Well, all that I found from natural and thick, these are 2 types - again jute and flax twisted, the last one I bought. But here's the funny thing - both of them also smell strongly like the previous jute, which I caught. There are no cannabis plants anywhere. Although I also have doubts that exactly hemp will be odorless. Although it is quite possible that the smell of ropes was not the reason for my complete failure.

I'm going to repeat this experiment in the near future. I really would not like to break off this time, because after all, this is no amount of time and money, and the vacation is almost over.

Maybe someone will have any thoughts on this? It seems to have done everything almost exactly as described by the vehicle. I will be very grateful for any hints. I just dreamed and hoped for this method for a whole year. And judging by the posts with photos, almost everyone has it working. But I have as always. Then Autumn will come and I will again begin to torment myself with doubts - but maybe it was necessary so, and not so, etc.))) But when I need to, I can't get anything useful into my empty, flawed head.
Thank you all in advance for your attention.

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