Trap Responses of Flying Insects: The Influence of Trap Design on Capture Efficiency - Hardcover

Muirhead-Thompson, R. C.

9780125097550: Trap Responses of Flying Insects: The Influence of Trap Design on Capture Efficiency

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0125097557 ISBN 13: 9780125097550

Publisher: Academic Press, 1991

Insect trapping is a basic field research tool for many biologists, whether they are studying insect pests, disease vectors or insect ecology for its own sake. Any field entomologist contemplating a new insect trapping programme or looking to improve or develop an existing scheme will benefit from this broad review of flying insect traps, in which the author draws on a wide variety of methods used by different research projects from all over the world. Over the years a great many traps have been developed and endlessly modified to suit particular species, habitats, and research requirements. In virtually every case the design of the trap interacts with the specific behaviour of the insects involved to bias trap efficiency. In addition, the limited dialogue between workers in different subject disciplines and habitats has caused a shortage of new information available to field entomologists as a whole.

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