Berlese samples
Flight-intercept samples
Light-trap samples
Malaise samples
Pitfall samples
Sweepnet samples

Winkler samples

ALAS Light-trap Collections, 2001 Expeditions

Entotech light traps were used to obtain a series of one-night blacklight samples. These traps use a 8 watt blacklight tube surrounded by 3 transparent panes, all perched over a funnel on top of a bucket. The bucket has an internal smaller funnel and screen to allow water drainage from rain. Unlike the La Selva sampling program, the traps were not surrounded by a larger wire cage to exclude large insects. Crumpled paper towels and egg cartons were placed in the bottom of the bucket, and a cloth bag of potassium or sodium cyanide suspended inside. The traps were placed before dusk and harvested the next morning. A light sensor turned the light on at dusk and off at dawn.

During the first week of the first expedition, Marc Epstein ran traps in several locations. At the end of his visit, two sites were chosen, and traps were placed in those two fixed sites each night (see map). Samples are listed below.

Abundant collecting was also carried out at a mercury vapor lamp. A sheet was tacked to the side of the refuge building, and the lamp suspended in front of the sheet. The lamp was usually operated from nightfall until 9 or 10pm, and collectors hand-picked from the sheet. No quantitative sampling structure was applied to mercury vapor lamp collecting. Each collector obtained their own specimens and assigned their own collection codes.

The data fields, in order, are:

Collection code: a unique code for a collection. The "11" indicates that it is from the 1070m site, the "L" indicates it is a light-trap sample, the following two numbers are the trap location ("00" for various trial locations, "01" and "02" for the two fixed locations; see map), and the final three-digit number is a serial number beginning with 001 for the first sample, and ending with 070 for the last.

Collection date
: day sample was harvested (morning following trap placement), in format day-month-year.

Collector: person taking the sample, Marc Epstein for early samples, ALAS staff for later samples.


11/L/00/001	9-Feb-2001	M. Epstein
11/L/00/002	10-Feb-2001	M. Epstein
11/L/00/003	10-Feb-2001	M. Epstein
11/L/00/004	11-Feb-2001	M. Epstein
11/L/00/005	11-Feb-2001	M. Epstein
11/L/00/006	12-Feb-2001	M. Epstein
11/L/00/007	12-Feb-2001	M. Epstein
11/L/00/008	13-Feb-2001	M. Epstein
11/L/00/009	13-Feb-2001	M. Epstein
11/L/01/010	18-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/011	19-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/012	19-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/013	20-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/014	20-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/015	21-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/016	21-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/017	10-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/018	10-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/019	11-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/020	11-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/021	12-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/022	12-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/023	13-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/024	13-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/025	14-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/026	14-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/027	15-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/028	15-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/029	16-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/030	16-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/031	19-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/032	21-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/033	21-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/034	15-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/035	16-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/036	16-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/037	17-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/038	17-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/039	18-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/040	18-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/041	19-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/042	19-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/043	20-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/044	20-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/045	21-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/046	21-Mar-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/047	10-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/048	10-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/049	11-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/050	11-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/051	12-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/052	12-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/053	13-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/054	13-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/055	14-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/056	14-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/057	15-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/058	15-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/059	16-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/060	16-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/061	17-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/062	17-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/063	18-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/064	18-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/065	19-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/066	19-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/067	20-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/068	20-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/01/069	21-Apr-2001	ALAS
11/L/02/070	21-Apr-2001	ALAS