The influence of polarized moonlight and collecting distance on the catches of winter moth Operophthera brumata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) by light traps

Nowinszky, L.; Hirka, Anikó; Csóka, György; Gergely, Petrányi; Puskás, J.

doi:10.14411/eje.2012.005

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“…This fact in these Moon Quarters attributes to the highpolarized moonlight. This confirms the results of previous studies given in references [9,30,62,66,67], which have already established that the polarized moonlight helps the orientation of insects.…”

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Light-Trap Catch of Insects in Connection with Environmental Factors

Nowinszky¹,

Puskás²

2017

Biological Control of Pest and Vector Insects

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This chapter deals with the connection between the light-trap collection of insects and the environmental factors that influence the trapping. These factors are as follows: the solar activity and its effects on the Earth (solar activity featured by Q-Index and the 2800 MHz radio flux, ionospheric storms and atmospheric radio noises, the interplanetary magnetic field sector boundaries, UV-B radiation of the Sun and geomagnetic indices), the moon phases and the polarized moonlight, the weather (macrosynoptic weather situations, weather fronts and air masses, weather events, weather elements), and air pollutants. The presented results show that these all modify the volume of captured insects.

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“…In the last few years, we proved that the polarized moonlight plays a deciding role in the effect of the Moon [16,[61][62][63][64][65].…”

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Light-Trap Catch of Insects in Connection with Environmental Factors

Nowinszky¹,

Puskás²

2017

Biological Control of Pest and Vector Insects

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“…The independence on number of trapping nights could have been due to multiple reasons beyond our control, such as local weather during the nights in various Moon phases (e.g. Nowinszky et al 2012). The only predictor increasing the moths abundance, for all moths as well as within Noctuidae and Geometridae, was the woody plants richness in the vicinity of the traps.…”

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Large moths captures by a pest monitoring system depend on farmland heterogeneity

Novotný

Zapletal

Kepka

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J Applied Entomology

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As intensive farmlands cover increasing areas of the world, associated biotic richness is crucial for the biodiversity of entire regions. Using data on non‐target Macrolepidopteran moths captured by a crop pest monitoring system, we compared local (100 m perimeter)‐ and landscape‐scale (1000 m perimeter) predictors of the numbers of moth individuals and moth species richness. During a single year (2009), eighteen light traps captured 91 726 individuals of 564 moths species. Typically for biotically impoverished habitats, the catches were dominated by a few superabundant species. Even in these impoverished assemblages, numbers of species increased with increasing herb and woody plants diversity (100 m around the traps), crop diversity (1000 m perimeter), landscape composition (1000 m) and configuration (100 and 1000 m). Abundance of the catches increased only with woody plants diversity in 100 m perimeters. In separate analyses of two species‐rich families, the presumably less mobile Geometridae increased with landscape configuration (i.e. density of edges) within 100 m perimeters around the traps, whereas the species richness of more mobile Noctuidae also reflected the landscape composition (i.e. proportional representation of land covers) at 100 m perimeters. Proportional representation of pest species decreased with increasing richness of herb and woody plants. Taken together, farmland heterogeneity increases moth species richness, whereas abundance of the catches mainly depends on local factors in the vicinity of light traps, and the local factors are more important for presumably less mobile Geometridae than for more mobile Noctuidae.

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“…The pheromone traps that male moths collected throughout the day. As we have previously demonstrated the polarized light increases the activity of insects (Nowinszky et al, 1979, 2010a, 2010b, 2012a, 2012b, Nowinszky & Puskás 2009, 2012, 2013a, 2013b. Another possibility is that the solid particles of the pheromone molecules bind well, so the greater activity male moths need for finding the females.…”

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Pheromone Trap Catch of Harmful Microlepidoptera Species in Connection with the Chemical Air Pollutants

2016

International Journal of Research in Environmental Science

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The influence of polarized moonlight and collecting distance on the catches of winter moth Operophthera brumata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) by light traps

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Light-Trap Catch of Insects in Connection with Environmental Factors

Light-Trap Catch of Insects in Connection with Environmental Factors

Large moths captures by a pest monitoring system depend on farmland heterogeneity

Pheromone Trap Catch of Harmful Microlepidoptera Species in Connection with the Chemical Air Pollutants

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