Billions of Bodies --

[Jean-Michel MAES]

Has someone check if the insects killed, exterminated by the zapper are of
some use for collection ?

Sincerely,

Jean-Michel MAES
MUSEO ENTOMOLOGICO
AP 527
LEON
NICARAGUA
tel 505-3116586
jmmaes at ibw.com.ni
www.insectariumvirtual.com/termitero/termitero.htm#nicaragua
www.insectariumvirtual.com/lasmariposasdenicaragua.htm
www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/workers/JMaes.htm
www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/database2/honduintro.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: DR. JAMES ADAMS <JADAMS at em.daltonstate.edu>
To: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 8:45 AM
Subject: RE: Billions of Bodies --


> Listers,
>
> The number of insects killed by a variety of methods is clearly
> astronomically huge.  I remember some projected number (in
> 100s/1000s of *pounds*) killed nightly by some of the large bat
> colonies in the south and southwest.  Someone surely can post
> the details.
>
> On a lesser scale, and at the risk of enraging some of the bug-
> huggers, I have done some light trap sampling for the U.S. forest
> service in the past.  One lone light trap can have several thousand
> moths (including the micros) in it.  However, when you realized that
> this is *one* trap with a *dim* fluorescent black light bulb in it, and
> you realized just how much habitat is out there, the number of
> moths that must be out there (extrapolating from one light trap
> sample, or from the number of bats that can be supported by a
> resident insect, mostly moth, population) is in the ridiculous range.
> I'd guess the total number of moth individuals of all species in the
> state of Georgia, for instance, would probably be a number  as long
> as one of the lines of text in this message.
>
> Please to not mistake this as support for bug zappers.  I've
> have felt all along that bug zappers are one of the stupidest
> inventions ever built.  Not only do they *not* really kill the target
> insects, but they may *attract* more of the target insects into the
> area, which means the owners may be bitten even more than they
> would have been if they didn't have a bug zapper.  But, the fact that
> moth, and so many other insect, populations continue to thrive in
> the face of development, cars, bug zappers, etc., points to the
> resiliency of most insects.  There clearly must be a limit, however.
>
> James
>
>
> Dr. James K. Adams
> Dept. of Natural Science and Math
> Dalton State College
> 213 N. College Drive
> Dalton, GA  30720
> Phone: (706)272-4427; fax: (706)272-2533
> U of Michigan's President James Angell's
>   Secret of Success: "Grow antennae, not horns"
>
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