Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Home Made Traps

Posted by Gordon on 16-10-2009 11:12
#19

Ah, Victor, a nice design, but you wouldn't want to leave it out for a month in the 40C sun of Greece.

Attached is a design I made for baited traps, its an adjustment of the well known bottle banana/wine/beer trap, but I have separated the bait from the killing fluid (I used 70% ethanol and emptied the traps once a week).

In the picture the traps have banana in them, and it worked well, but you could put anuthing in them and I am planning to experiment. the smell circulates well, as the containers have mesh on the top (the centre of the lid is cut away) you have to replace the mesh occasionally as ants will cut through it. By removing one of the aluminium bars you can remove the bait container.

The aluminium is from electricity wire, I collected one metre sections left behind by repair men, the mesh is left over from making the malaise traps and I got the small bottles from the national park npeople so all I had to buy was the coke, which I drink anyway, and the bait. With a god arm and a long piece of string with a weight on the end you can get them well pu into a tree.