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

By R. C. Muirhead-Thompson

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0125097557
• ISBN13: 9780125097550
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.8" x 6.5"