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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SIZE OF YELLOW WATER TRAPS AND CATCHES OF APHIDS
Author(s) -
COSTA C. L.,
LEWIS T.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
entomologia experimentalis et applicata
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.765
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1570-7458
pISSN - 0013-8703
DOI - 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1967.tb02468.x
Subject(s) - trapping , biology , ecology
Yellow water traps are often used for sampling populations of flying aphids. This note suggests that the size and probably the shape of traps should be standardised, because trapping efficiency (nos. caught/unit area), and the relative attractiveness of traps to different species, depends on trap size. Aphidologists using water traps to compare mixed populations of flying aphids, should therefore compare catches from different traps with caution. Traps of three sizes were made up from individual trays, each 29 × 21.5 × 5 cm, and painted Hansa yellow inside; 1 tray alone, 4 arranged in a 2 × 2 rectangle, and 9 in a 3 × 3 rectangle, gave trapping surfaces of approx. 625, 2500 and 5700 cm 2 respectively. The traps were half‐filled with water plus a drop of detergent, placed on bare land and daily catches collected on 19 days in June and July 1966.