mist-netting for monarchs?

[Cris Guppy & Aud Fischer]

There was a series of articles by someone in Florida who used giant "malaise
traps" to capture migrating butterflies such as Monarchs. I cannot remember
where the articles were published, but most likely Journal of the
Lepidopterists' Society, 1970s or 1980s. The traps only captured migrating
butterflies, because they were focussed on directional flight regardless of
obstacles.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Moreno" <w0lverine69 at hotmail.com>
To: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: September 14, 2000 11:52 AM
Subject: mist-netting for monarchs?


> We do a lot of mist netting for bats as a part of our research. The
> mist-nets are basically a very large hair-net about the size of a
volleyball
> net (7'X 30'). When mist%20netting, one of the problems that occur is that
> we seem to catch plenty of moths. Now since the monarch migration is on
the
> way I was wondering if anyone ever heard of mist%20netting for monarch? We
> plan to tag as many monarchs that we can get our hands on. Is
mist%20netting
> recommended or discouraged?
>
> Michael Moreno
> Texas Wesleyan University
> Fort Worth, TX
> w0lverine69 at hotmail.com
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