Can we make it by own? please suggest
I have to check the butterfly diversity in a particular area. So I have to use bait traps for the collection of butterflies. I have a little bit idea of this trap. Can anybody suggest me to how to use this? Could it be possible to make it own? please suggest. Thank you.
Hello Saveena
This illustrated paper might help:
Shuey, J. A. (1997). An optimized portable bait trap for quantitative sampling of butterflies. Trop. Lepidoptera, 8(1-4).
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/267394093
As the paper is quite old, maybe the author (on ResearchGate) would be able to let you know if it had been improved upon over the years.
These authors are also on RG:
Austin, G. T., & Riley, T. J. (1995). Portable bait traps for the study of butterflies. Tropical Lepidoptera, 6(1), 5-9.
http://www.troplep.org/TLR/6-1-part1/pdf003.pdf
Shuey, J. A. (1997). An optimized portable bait trap for quantitative sampling of butterflies. Trop. Lepidoptera, 8(1-4).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267394093_An_optimized_portable_trap_for_quantitative_sampling_of_butterflies
These are illustrated sites online re making butterfly bait traps:
http://www.butterflyboutique.net/articles/articles_nv_butterflytrap.html
http://extreme-macro.co.uk/butterfly-trap/
http://butterflywebsite.com/butterflytraps.cfm
http://www.leptraps.com/effectivebaittrapping.htm
This was a past question on RG - not answering yours, but it may be of interest:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Whats_the_best_bait_for_butterfly_traps
Very best wishes
Mary
Article An optimized portable trap for quantitative sampling of butterflies
the basic design presented is still pretty much the standard. I continued to use these until just a few years ago, until I found a very light weight commercial trap on the market. http://bugdorm.megaview.com.tw/pop-up-butterfly-bait-trap-cone-type-pack-of-one-p-144.html.
I now use these exclusively - The only thing I've modified is that I replaced the hanger with a monofilament line to discourage ants (see the rational in the paper mentioned above). And I enlarged the opening in the funnel to about 6" - because I use them in the tropics and many butterflies simply will not fit through the small opening provided in the commercial design.
John
As Mr. Shuey suggested above, those net traps are very efficient. If you dont find them to buy, you can have a look at the photos and do it by yourself sewing a net. A cheap and useful bait I used when I worked with butterflies in a short experiment was a piece of banana on a small plate with sugarcane juice. Ants can be nasty, so the hint of Mr. Shuey might be very helpful!
You can use Van Someren-Rydon traps. They are very useful and esay to make. You can bait them with fermented fruit, rotten fish and excrement. Fruit-feeding nymphalid butterflies are stratified between the canopy and the understory by species composition and abundance along forest edges. More intormation in the following link http://www.urbanwildlands.org/devries/DeVriesJRL1988.pdf
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