Artificial covering on trap nests improves the colonization of trap-nesting wasps

• Published in: Journal of applied entomology (1986) Vol. 132; no. 3; pp. 225 - 229
• Main Authors: Taki, Hisatomo, Kevan, Peter G, Viana, Blandina F, Silva, Fabiana O, Buck, Matthias
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2008; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Blackwell
• Subjects: aculeate; Ancistrocerus antilope; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Apoidea; bee; Biological and medical sciences; Carolinian forest; cavity nesting; Crabronidae; forests; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; nests; parasitism; Pompilidae; Sphecidae; Synecology; Terrestrial ecosystems; trap-nesting wasps; traps; Canada; North America; Ontario; America; Nesting; Forests; bee; Carolinian forest; aculeate; Insecta; trap-nesting wasps; Trap; cavity nesting; Arthropoda; Parasitism rate; Hymenoptera; Invertebrata; Nest; Colonization; Aculeata

To evaluate the role that a trap-nest cover might have on sampling methodologies, the abundance of each species of trap-nesting Hymenoptera and the parasitism rate in a Canadian forest were compared between artificially covered and uncovered traps. Of trap tubes exposed at eight forest sites in six...