The lazy way to catch your insects

[soe]

Hi

Found a way to catch a lot of feeding insects without doing anything
Some years ago I saw a collector of nocturnal insects in USA and have been looking for them since. Now it is possible to buy them here in Denmark. They can send to UK
www.insektfanger.dk
I got one in October and have been collecting live insects every morning every day except on nights with freezing temperatures.
Last night I caught about one deciliter live insects



Only problem is that the size of the insects are so different and I have to cool them and separate in size for the animals.

Best wishes
Søe

[morbid]

Nice Söe!!

Doesen´t it smash the insects with the fanblades?

You just hang it outdoors somewhere, right?

Do you know if the smaller one is working good too? www.insektfanger.dk/shop/productinfo.asp?id=396

[soe]

Hi
No actually almost all insects are alive even small mosquito's. Last night it caught about 45 moths and a lot of smaller insects.
I hang it in my garage. Not the best place, but it is dry there and it still catches. I havent tried the smaller ones. I am not sure they are strong enough for the largest insects.
Best wishes
Søe

[morbid]

Sounds great. Thanks for the tip..

[Killian]

Thats brilliant! I must invest in one of those!

[morbid]

I have ordered one.. Did choose the smaller model though, as I am going to use it for my H. arboreas and don´t need so large insects.

[soe]

Hi
I just talked to the owner of the shop. If you cannot find out how to order (since it is written i danish), you can simply write to this adress:
[e-mail] and write what you are looking for. He is not sure though, what prices to send it will be yet, but he will find out

Best wishes
Søe

[soe]

To send one from DK to UK cost 270 dkr

[morbid]

And 230 DKr, to Sweden.

How is everything, by the way Söe?
We have met brefly in Stockholm a couple of years ago, when you spoke at Stockholm Symposium.

[soe]

Hi

Ohhh sorry cannot put a face to that name Talked to so many then.

Here is everything fine. I actually didn`t want to breed much this year, but after all that irritating backstabbing undercover work against Breeders-Expo Europe, I want to support that initiative. The best functioning Show I have ever attended.
So I started to breed and breed and wouh, there will be plenty of offspring.
Maybe even some VERY interesting stuff like these:



I will start another topic, showing what else is happening here ;D

Best wishes
Søe

[morbid]

I understand that, Söe.. No sweat. Neither of us was completley sober at the time.. ;D

I am also trying to help / promote BEE the best I can, on my blog and on my website / forum.. Not too keen on going on "that other show" anymore, because of all the stupidiness..



d**nit!!
Big a**ed lizards!!

[morbid]

As I said before, I bought one of the insectcatcher..

The smallest model.


And it works very good!!

Catching more live insects that I can use! Well, almost anyway.
It catches quite large moths, about 3 centimetres in bodylength whitout problems. Every night it catches about a decilitre or more insects!
My frogs and lizards are wery happy!!

Thanks Söe, for the tip!!

I wonder if the seller would be interested in having a retailer in Sweden..

[ameivaboy]

This is a very cool looking item - I can not seem to find a similar product for USA.

I suppose I could attach some lights to a small fan and have it pointed into a bucket or something similar? anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks

[ameivaboy]

Ok I have found similar product - but the ones I find dehydrate the insects and kills them within hours - does the ones you all use do this same thing? I would sort of like to have the insects be left alive (more fun for lizards)