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Insects

Title:		"When the Beetles Hit the Fan: The Fan-Trap, an Inexpensive, Light and Scalable Insect Trap under a Creative Commons License, for Monitoring and Experimental Use"
Author(s):		Gregoire JC; Caiti E; Hasbroucq S; Molenberg JM; Willenz S;
Address:		"Spatial Ecology Lab. (SpELL), CP 160/12, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium. Evolutionary Biology & Ecology Unit (EBE), Universite Libre de Bruxelles, CP 160/12, 50 Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium. Agroecology Lab., CP 264/2, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Blvd. du Triomphe, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium. Sylvain Willenz Design Office, 99, Vieille Rue du Moulin 1180, 1180 Uccle, Belgium"
Journal Title:		Insects
Year:		2022
Volume:		20221205
Issue:		12
Page Number:		-
DOI:		10.3390/insects13121122
ISSN/ISBN:		2075-4450 (Print) 2075-4450 (Electronic) 2075-4450 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Monitoring is an important component in pest management, to prevent or mitigate outbreaks of native pests and to check for quarantine organisms. Surveys often rely on trapping, especially when the target species respond to semiochemicals. Many traps are available for this purpose, but they are bulky in most cases, which raises transportation and deployment issues, and they are expensive, which limits the size and accuracy of any network. To overcome these difficulties, entomologists have used recycled material, such as modified plastic bottles, producing cheap and reliable traps but at the cost of recurrent handywork, not necessarily possible for all end-users (e.g., for national plant-protection organizations). These bottle-traps have allowed very large surveys to be conducted, which would have been impossible with standard commercial traps, and we illustrate this approach with a few examples. Here, we present, under a Creative Commons BY-SA License, the blueprint for a fan-trap, a foldable model, laser cut from a sheet of polypropylene, which can rapidly be produced in large numbers in a Fab lab or by a commercial company and could be transported and deployed in the field with very little effort. Our first field comparisons show that fan-traps are as efficient as bottle-traps for some Scolytinae species and we describe two cases where they are being used for monitoring"
Keywords:		beetles monitoring spatial distribution surveys traps;
Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEGregoire, Jean-Claude Caiti, Emilio Hasbroucq, Severine Molenberg, Jean-Marc Willenz, Sylvain eng " Surveillance et controle des scolytides: mise au point d'une methodologie de piegeage" (2004-2005)/Ministere de la Region wallonne, Direction generale des Ressources naturelles et de l'Environnement/ Switzerland 2022/12/24 Insects. 2022 Dec 5; 13(12):1122. doi: 10.3390/insects13121122"