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Post by jamesd on Nov 30, 2011 0:55:30 GMT -8
Are there any methods for attracting beetles? One I know is a night light, but are there any other alternatives or methods that can be used in combination with the night light?
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Post by nomihoudai on Nov 30, 2011 1:47:49 GMT -8
For beetles you use different kind of traps, like pitfall traps (google it) or digging your way trough various animals feces, a reason why I will never become a coleopterist  |
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Post by lucanidae25 on Nov 30, 2011 16:15:10 GMT -8
Claude Would you touch butterflies just feeding on animals or your own feces, no different not only beetles but butterflies feed on faces too.  |
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Post by lucanidae25 on Dec 1, 2011 15:19:02 GMT -8
One of the technique I used to do is just walk around in suburbs and parks, I would just take the bark off the eucalyptus and acacia, I used to find all kind of beetles underneath the bark. eg Buprestidae, Cerambycidae: most of the Phoracantha sp and Pachydissus sp, colourful Tenebrionoidea........ I've found one of the rarest Buprestidae Nascio vetusta just underneath bark on a eucalyptus in fount of a factory in a suburb, especially with any dying trees. I still haven't found another Nascio vetusta since that time.
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Post by jackblack on Dec 1, 2011 21:49:21 GMT -8
Iv`e found putting out sweet smelling fruit and fermenting fruit near an insect light works well or another method using the same baits make a soupy consistency and put it in a bucket pull it high up into the canopy you can catch cetonids and stags like this .
They fly in and drown in the soup , check daily.
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