Insects, arachnids, and other arthropods play a crucial role in Earth’s ecosystems. Some are helpful to humans, such as pollinating honeybees, while others, such as Lyme disease-carrying ticks, are ...

We analyzed effects of pitfall trap color on spider catches using four different pitfall trap colors (white, yellow, green, brown). For each color, we installed 17 pitfall traps at two grassland sites ...

An inexpensive, easy to install, adjustable water-pan trap was developed and used to simultaneously monitor aphids and cicadellids at three different heights in a maizebean-pumpkin triculture. The ...

An effective and affordable bed bug monitor can be made by incorporating a new pitfall trap design, a chemical lure, and a sugar-and-yeast mixture to produce carbon dioxide. A new pitfall trap ...

What is a pitfall trap? A pitfall trap is a simple device used to catch small animals - particularly insects and other invertebrates - that spend most of their time on the ground. In its most basic ...

Ben Franklin and Mark Twain get credit for a lot of quips and quotes, some of which they actually said. "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door” is not one of them.

Zoe Short shows off a monarch butterfly she named Russell in front of UW’s Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center pollinator garden. Short, a recent UW graduate from Douglas, was the lead author of a ...

A new pitfall trap designed to capture bed bugs is more effective than those currently on the market, according to the authors of an article appearing in the next issue of the Journal of Economic ...