Malaise traps are important tools for the large-scale collection of arthropod taxa. Here, an
extensive review of the history and literature concerning Malaise and canopy traps is given …

Bees are the predominant pollinating taxa, providing a critical ecosystem service upon
which many angiosperms rely for successful reproduction. Available data suggests that bee …

Terrestrial arthropods are extremely important ecosystem components. The choice of best
approaches to collect the wide range of terrestrial arthropods has been a topic of long …

The Malaise traps are among the most important instruments for collecting day-flying (and in
moonlit nights to some degree also night-flying species) of Hymenoptera and Diptera. Also …

Aerial insectivores are highly mobile predators that feed on diverse prey items that have
highly variable distributions. As such, investigating the diet, prey selection and prey …

Métodos de coleta passiva, com o uso de armadilhas, têm sido utilizados na coleta de
besouros da família Scarabaeidae. No Cerrado existem poucos estudos sobre estes …

Butterflies (Lepidoptera) are one of the most well-known groups of diurnal insects. The
present chapter provides a review of the main sampling methods for butterfly ecology and …

Species relative abundance (SRA) is an essential attribute of biotic communities, which can
provide an accurate description of community structure. However, the sampling method …

When estimating the species richness of a taxonomic group in a specific area, the choice of
the trapping method is extremely important. In this study the effectiveness of Malaise and …

Malaise trap is commonly used sampling technique for low flying insects. Being passive, it
does not require an observer to observe throughout the day; hence it is economical and time …