A MODIFIED LIGHT‐TRAP FOR OBTAINING LARGE SAMPLES OF NIGHT‐FLYING LOCUSTS AND GRASSHOPPERS

1 December 1974

journal article
Published by Wiley in Australian Journal of Entomology

Vol. 13 (4) , 357-360
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-6055.1974.tb02214.x

Abstract

A light trap for locusts and grasshoppers is described which by trapping up to 1.5 m from the light source catches large samples of plague locusts whenever night flights occur.

Keywords

LIGHT SOURCE
MODIFIED LIGHT
LIGHT TRAP
FLYING
LOCUSTS
GRASSHOPPERS
TRAPPING
LARGE SAMPLES
OBTAINING LARGE
FLIGHTS

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Outbreaks and recession populations of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forsk.)
Bulletin of Entomological Research, 1970
Night flights of the Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera Walk., in relation to storms
Australian Journal of Zoology, 1969