iraqbabbler
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I'm just curious if trapping moths/butterflies invariably means killing them in the process, or do some/any of them get released? :smoke:
HiThanks for the info.
I must say that I find it unconscionable to kill something just to be able to say that you've seen it; "absolute certainty" or not!
Imagine if we did that with birds!
Thanks for the info.
I must say that I find it unconscionable to kill something just to be able to say that you've seen it; "absolute certainty" or not!
Imagine if we did that with birds!
You have to understand that there is a difference between "hobbyists" and "scientific collectors". The latter often use lethal traps as a requirement, because those traps increase the trap yields by more than double in many cases (albeit they are all dead, but for scientific value that is more useful than having a fraction of the total, some alive, some that have battered themselves and other moths to death through the night, etc.).
I've seen pheremone traps hanging in forest plantations where pest species need to be detected and monitored, mainly in Continental Europe but I don't think they're 'kill traps' but could be wrong?
They may not even have been for moths, coleoptera?
Andy