Need help on collecting cerambycidae

[lucanidae25]

Hi BeetleGuy

One of the best way to collect Cerambycidae is to collect dead timbers and put them inside a container and wait for them to come out. Try and look for timbers that has sign of tunnels and sawdust around the base of the tree.

Another really good one is to find freshly fallen timbers (with in 10 days) the smell of the freshly fallen timbers will attract male and female day and night. You just have to look on the timbers.

Good luck
Raymond

[boghaunter1]

Hi BeetleGuy,

Here is a new book, sold by BioQuip out of California, & dedicated only to different methods of beetle collection:

www.bioquip.com/search/DispProduct.asp?pid=3905

Looks interesting...might get it myself!

John K.

[prillbug2]

I use sugar water traps, glue traps, mercury vapor, black lights, also you can use fruit baits sometimes, and one of the best methods is to use a beating sheet, and lundgren funnel traps baited with ethylene, or wood chips, or sugar water, and fruit for Lepturines.
I am not a new member, just check the old forum postings, and you'll find my old postings going back ten years.
Jeff Prill

[58chevy]

Try this website:

annmgordon.com/imagePage.php?category=OtherInsects&speciesName=Ivory-marked%20Beetle

Baiting apparently works well for cerambycids.

[timoinsects]

hi,

i don't think light trap is so expensive even for a student.

well,i live in china,here don't have perfessional insects companies that sell specialisted equipment to collect insects which is indeed a bit pricy for many people.

so we normally use the normal mercury lights,whish are easy to get on anywhere or from internet,the domestic postage here is cheap that normally range 1.5 to 2 euros only within 1kg for a parcel.,then to the wild. and a white cloth plus a bracket.

when dark appraching,the insects coming to vist you!

i think this is a very basic require for light trap.

hope this helps and if you can try it.

[politula]

Google "HUNTING LONGHORN BEETLES" by Robert Vigneault.

I've found it helpful.

[prillbug2]

Place the uv light trap in the woods, preferably at the bottom of a hill. I use a pair of trees, string a rope between them,twice, clip the sheet to the back part of the rope and then clip the light to the front rope, parallelwith the rope, so that you get the entire light at a 360 degree exposure. Secondly, I also run a second rope about halfway down and put a second light there. I also put a second sheet on the ground, since some species land on the ground and are difficult to see. A third method when collecting at night is to take a sweep net, or a beating sheet and disturb the foliage nearby the light. Not all insects come directly into the light, many of them hang around the perimeter in the foliage. I've collected thousands of specimens with uv light over the years. It takes a lot of effort and work to find them.
Jeff Prill

[africaone]

jeff,
what kind of light (tube, bulb, black uv lamp?) and power do you use ?
Thierry

[prillbug2]

I use two bulbs. One from BioQuip, and a darker spectrum Uv. I power them with a car or a boat battery. The darker spectrum tube is a plug in, so I use a power inverter along with the battery. I usually set up 2 to three sheets per night in various habitats.
Jeff Prill

[africaone]

it is said that power (wattage) for longhorn is very important ! as it seems you use low powered bulbe, did you have any information about that ?
Personally I always hunt with 160 W or 250 W white bulb and resulats are not so performant, in Africa. Friends told me they caught many more with at least 1000 w (in total) !
Thierry

[prillbug2]

Thierry:
I use four 175 watt Mercury vapor lights, and two 160 watt self ballasted bulbs as well, vut I only have one generator to power one light. I couldn't possibly carry anything bigger in my car than 1000 watt generator. I resort to a boat battery and a 1500watt power inverter to power a second light. All lights vary in their attractiveness here in Illinois. We aren't the tropics, a moon of any type is a killer when it comes to collecting at night. So, I use whatever I can to find Cerambycidae, at least the taxa that do come to lights. That even means walking the woods during the day and noting where there are freshly dead or dying trees, so that I can go back to them and flashlight for adults that may have flown in to oviposit or mate right there on the spot. Not all species come into lights, so you have to be creative. I may have written about this in the old forum. I hope this helps.
Jeff Prill

[ryanm]

Can someone provide links to the exact models of lights they use?

[prillbug2]

My 175 watt mercury vapor lights are security lights that I bought at a hardware store. I stripped an old extension cord and taped it to the lights cord using electric tape. These lights are attached to the rope by doubling it and tying it around the light mount. The light points to the side, but there's is still 360 degree exposure if you hang it high enough. The self-ballasted, 160 watt MVlights are from BioQuip products. I simply use a light pot found in hardware stores with a clip so that I can clip it onto the rope. It worked well when I went to Belize in 2008. Otherwise, a generator, extension cords, and or batteries are needed. Pretty nearly everything comes from my local area hardware stores.
Jeff Prill

[africaone]

thanks Jeff !