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Post by leptraps on Jun 1, 2017 17:20:16 GMT -8
I have been told that Charaxes can be collected in Bait Traps. Has anyone tried using Bait Traps?
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Post by miguel on Jun 3, 2017 4:45:20 GMT -8
I have not used bait traps,but in summer is very common to see the european Charaxes looking for figs in the Ficus Carica .
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Post by leptraps on Jun 3, 2017 9:48:01 GMT -8
There was a young missionary in the Congo (?) to whom I gave several bait traps never expecting anything in return. He left Insect Net for the other site, Cabin Tom was his email name. I would like to know if he ever used them and if so, what did he collect?
That is why I am very reluctant to give someone traps in exchange for specimens. I have been stung more than once.
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Post by leptraps on Jun 3, 2017 10:03:53 GMT -8
I will probably regret writing this, but a certain young man who's name I will not speak. He ask me to let him borrow some bait traps so he could collect some Catocala. I felt sorry for the young man. I gave him four bait traps. He promised to give me a first look at all the moths.
My first look was on his eBay store. I got the junk and he sold the good stuff.
That was the last loan of bait traps I will ever do. None, zero, zilch, nada, nothing and absolutely never again.
So, do not ask!! Never ever......
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Post by cabintom on Jun 20, 2017 4:47:21 GMT -8
There was a young missionary in the Congo (?) to whom I gave several bait traps never expecting anything in return. He left Insect Net for the other site, Cabin Tom was his email name. I would like to know if he ever used them and if so, what did he collect? That is why I am very reluctant to give someone traps in exchange for specimens. I have been stung more than once. I do check back here once in a while. I'm looking to create a website for my collection and, among other things related to the hobby, have to build my own storage boxes to hold my specimens, so I don't have as much free time for either forum as I've had in the past. I haven't been terribly successful with the bait trap you gave me, but that's mostly because deploying it the right environment has proved tricky. I usually have it up in a tree in my yard and I've consistently caught Charaxes brutus angustus. If they're on the wing, I'll have one or two in the trap at the end of the day. Other than that, I've found Charaxes candiope (a couple), Charaxes castor castor (single), Charaxes numenes aequatorialis (single), and Charaxes boueti boueti (increasingly more common). The problem being that I'm in the middle of a city, and the surrounding grassland isn't terribly rich in biodiversity (thanks to human activity). Outside of Charaxes, I get a few different Bicyclus (Satyrinae) species, Gnophodes betsimena parmeno, Melanitis leda, Melanitis libya (rare), Eurytela dryope, and rarely male Hypolimnas misippus.
I usually get out to the forest, for a day trip, every month or so, and this is where deploying the bait traps has proved difficult to do successfully. I've had problems with bad bait, bait falling in the river, etc. But mostly, I have yet to discover the secret of good trap placement. I'd like to hang it up along the paths we habitually hike, but if it's too much out in the open, the villagers are often frightened/worried/superstitious about it and I have literally seen them turn around and head home instead of pass by the bait trap hung along the side of the path (and it's the only path heading south out of that particular village). So usually I try to hang it off the way a bit, but it seem it always ends up being to much in the shade. Also, by the time we hike to where I want to hang the trap, it's only up for a few hours before we head back out, so there's not much opportunity for it to be found by the insects. Preferably, I'd hang it up somewhere and leave it for a couple of days before checking on what it's captured, but that's just not feasible. Over the months I have caught a number of "forest" species with it, just not in numbers. I especially would like to figure out how to entice Euphaedra, Bebearia, and other Limenitinae to enter the trap, as so far I've had almost no success with those species at all. I hang the trap low, just above the ground, but they don't seem to enter readily. I have often seen them sitting on the outside of the trap rather then entering.
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