Bugnapper lamp?

[Crazy4mantis]

I found this on carolina:

http://www.carolina.com/insect-traps/bug-napper-lamp/674333.pr?catId=10390&mCat=10337&sCat=10386&ssCat=&question=

I also saw one at a reptile fair. Does anyone know if it works or have tried something like this? I'm mostly trying to catch flies and I don't want to make bait. this would make my life much easier, except I don't want to pay $50 if I dont know if it works.

Thanks!

 

[Introvertebrate]

You could probably make on for a lot less.

http://www.bugcollectors.com/traps.html

 

[Sticky]

Bioquip has the same thing for $38.75. I will try one this june. If it does not work, I can get 100s of moths around Ellsworth. Alot of the businesses have great moth lights.

 

[RevWillie]

The trick, as I see it, is to capture the insects alive so you can throw live insects to your pets. If they go into water or alcohol, you have dead insects.

I wonder how the Bug Napper keeps the live insects from crawling out? A fan?

 

[Paradoxica]

here's a pretty simple one to build from UKMF

http://www.ukmantisforums.co.uk/housing-equipment/1919-moth-catcher.html

 

[Crazy4mantis]

Would there be moths in the winter?

 

[Crazy4mantis]

we're getting super cold for socal 30s at night

 

[Crazy4mantis]

I wonder how the Bug Napper keeps the live insects from crawling out? A fan?

They can't crawl out of the funnel.

 

[Introvertebrate]

The trick, as I see it, is to capture the insects alive so you can throw live insects to your pets. If they go into water or alcohol, you have dead insects.

Are you referring to my link? I was assuming the OP would know enough to leave out the alcohol.

 

[Sticky]

What does OP mean ?

 

[Paradoxica]

What does OP mean ?

Original Post

 

[Sticky]

Original Post

Thank you! I have seen that afew times. I could figure some things but not that one.

 

[Introvertebrate]

Actually its Original Poster. They guy that started the thread.

 

[ChicaGorgous]

Has anyone tried to catch wild bugs for food, I tried but they were to fast. So please keep me updated.

 

[Montana]

Has anyone tried to catch wild bugs for food, I tried but they were to fast. So please keep me updated.

Years ago during a summer in New Mexico I had a "bright Idea" to leave the porch light on and take a vacuum out and vacuum up all the moths and insects near the lights. After a few minutes I must have had at least a couple hundred grams of various-sized insects conveniently stored in the vacuum "chamber."

It was pretty fun. I ended up dumping them out on the ground and they continued on their various ways.

 

[Mime454]

Has anyone tried to catch wild bugs for food, I tried but they were to fast. So please keep me updated.

It's a skill, but all of my mantids are fat in the summer!

 

[Malakyoma]

It's a skill, but all of my mantids are fat in the summer!

Not to brag or anything.

I think if I were to catch bugs in the summer, I wouldn't try chasing after them with a net. Go with tricks and traps and baits and such.

 

[RevWillie]

I have a kid's butterfly net and catch flies, bees, and small grasshoppers for my mantis

You do have to be careful! I fed a Creo what I thought was a stink bug, 2 hours later he hadn't eaten it so I removed it, and in the morning he was dead. In hindsight I think it wasn't a stink bug, maybe a type of assassin bug, and probably bit and injected him.

 

[Mime454]

Not to brag or anything.

I think if I were to catch bugs in the summer, I wouldn't try chasing after them with a net. Go with tricks and traps and baits and such.

pI just go out with my hands. I have the worst reflexes and H-E coordination. I'm still able to catch a ton where I live, which is pretty urban, but I have a yard and a tiny creek.