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[Noah Norman]

What are good light traps that I can use to catch queens?

[Kalidas]

A lot of people seem to like the old tried and true bright light pointed at a white sheet hung on clothes line

[AntsBC]

Yes, the blacklight trap works pretty well. The only thing with that one is you have a higher chance of catching infertile queens. Personally, I like to use tile/flowerpot traps. A tutorial on how to make a tile trap can be found here. For flowerpot traps I just water flowerpots in hope that a queen or colony will move into it. Its more of a colony trap if anything.

[Noah Norman]

A lot of people seem to like the old tried and true bright light pointed at a white sheet hung on clothes line

I want something that I can just take out into the woods at night, and easily move to different locations.

[Noah Norman]

Yes, the blacklight trap works pretty well. The only thing with that one is you have a higher chance of catching infertile queens. Personally, I like to use tile/flowerpot traps. A tutorial on how to make a tile trap can be found here. For flowerpot traps I just water flowerpots in hope that a queen or colony will move into it. Its more of a colony trap if anything.

How effective are these?

[Rulkan]

 

A lot of people seem to like the old tried and true bright light pointed at a white sheet hung on clothes line

I want something that I can just take out into the woods at night, and easily move to different locations.

 

 

Drew has a good thread related to blacklight traps, additionally he's included links to Bioquip traps inside that thread as well. Link here.

 

This link was obtained from another good thread on catching queens, which includes other variations on the blacklight trap.

Edited by Rulkan, November 18 2018 - 2:23 PM.