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Laboratory Exercises 1

This document provides an overview of entomological tools, materials, and equipment used to study and collect insects. It lists over 30 different tools with sample photos and descriptions of their uses, including various types of nets, traps, and laboratory tools. The objectives are to identify the different tools and understand their purposes in entomological research and specimen collection/preservation.
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Laboratory Exercises 1

This document provides an overview of entomological tools, materials, and equipment used to study and collect insects. It lists over 30 different tools with sample photos and descriptions of their uses, including various types of nets, traps, and laboratory tools. The objectives are to identify the different tools and understand their purposes in entomological research and specimen collection/preservation.
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Entomology ( CropProt 101)

Laboratory Exercise No. 1


Entomological Tools, Materials, and Equipment
Name: Annie M. Ventura Section: BSAM 2B

Introduction
Entomology is the study of insects and how they interact with the humans,
environments, and other organisms. There are insects that are beneficial to crops and the
environment. However, some insects are referred to as pests because they harm agricultural
plants and crops. Therefore, these insects must be killed to prevent crop damage. Also, the
entomologist, who studies how insects develop, how they look, and how they interact with other
organisms. They are responsible for collecting the specimens and studying the effects of insects
on everything, including crops.

We and the entomologists used a variety of tools, materials, and equipment to study and
collect the insects. The aquatic net, the butterfly net, the sweep net, and other types of nets can be
used. They are all made to collect insects in a particular way, depending on their environment. In
addition, a variety of traps are utilized for the collection of various insect groups. This indicates
that distinct materials and tools can be utilized to collect and kill various insect groups. In the
laboratory, there are materials and tools that can be used to keep, store, and preserve them after
they have been collected.

Objectives:
The objectives of this exercise is to:
 Identify the different entomological tools, materials, and equipment.
Entomological Tools, Materials, and Equipment
NAME SAMPLE PHOTO USES
Aerial Net ( Butterfly It is used to collect aerial insects
Net) during flight ( active fliers like
butterflies, moths, dragonflies,
flies, wasps, etc.)

Aquatic Net It is used to collect aquatic insects/


aquatic stage of aerial insects from
still/ running water.

Sweep Net It is used to collect leafhoppers,


grasshoppers, small insects, etc.

Beating Sheet/ Net It is a tool used to collect and study


insects that live on branches, and
leaves like caterpillars. The insects
feeding on the foliage and twigs
will fall down onto the sheet,
where they can be collected.
Plankton Net It is used for collecting plankton in
the standing bodies of water.

Insect Light Trap It is used at night in the field to


collect moths, and other flying
insects such as: Armyworm, bugs,
cutworm, flies, etc.

Black Light Trap It is used to attract flying insects


which hit the vane or the light, fall
through the funnel and remain
within a container.

Pitfall Trap It is used to trap insects that are


active on the ground surface.
Insects reaching the lip of the
beaker slip and fall in and are then
unable to climb back out.
Bottle trap It is used as insect trap for
collecting either prized or harmful
frugivorous beetles, especially
flower beetles, leaf chafers, and
longhorn beetles as well as wasps
and other unwanted flying insects.

Flight interception Widely used for trapping, killing,


Trap and preserving system for flying
insects. It is especially well suited
for collecting beetles. It also used
to collect flying species which are
not likely to be attracted to bait or
light.

Malaise Trap Used for trapping, killing, and


preserving flying insects,
particularly hymenoptera and
diptera.

Methyl Eugenol Trap Used as insect traps and lure


products to attract certain fruitflies
such as oriental fruit fly on
affected food crops.
Suction Trap Used mainly to sample the smaller,
more mobile insects, including
natural enemies.

Moth trap Used by the entomologists to


capture moths. Most use a light
source.

Sticky Trap Useful for monitoring an area for


crawling insects 24/7 and as such
are frequently used by
professionals to enhance their
ability to detect pests during pest
control inspections.

Pan Trap Type of insect trap used to sample


the abundance and diversity of
insects, primarily used to capture
small hymenoptera.
Insect Trap Used to monitor or directly reduce
populations of insects or other
anthropods , by trapping
individuals and killing them. It is
sometimes used in pest
management programs instead of
pesticides.

Pheromone trap Type of insect trap that uses


pheromones to lure insects. Also,
used to count insects populations
by sampling , and to trap pests
such as clothes moths to destroy
them.

Aspirator/ Pooter It is used to collect small and


minute insects without any
damage.

Berlese funnel It is used to collect soil inhabiting


( Tullgreen Funnel) insects like mites , collembolans,
etc., from debris, organic matters,
litters, and soil.
Hand lens Used to magnify something that an
entomologists ( or other
naturalists) is looking at. This
helps them examine small or hard
to see characteristics of insects or
other invertebrates.

Forceps Use a pair of forceps or long


tweezers to handle the insects you
collect. Some of insects sting or
pinch, so it safer to use forceps to
hold them.

Insect Pins Used by entomologists for


mounting collected insects.

Setting Board It is useful for spreading the wings


of large insects prior to mounting.
Killing jar Used by the entomologists to kill
captured insects quickly and with
minimum damage.

Insect storage Box Used in biology laboratories for


storing different insects. Since
dead insects are very delicate, it is
important to store them carefully,in
order to make them last for years.

Insect cabinet Used to securely seal to protect and


preserve specimens from insects ,
rodents, light, dust, and water.

Insect cages Used to helps in handling insects in


large number very efficiently there
by reducing the operational cost in
insectaries in general
Containers Used to keep live insects once you
collected them for observation.

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