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    • Two plastic drink bottle tops used as Insect pan traps outside.
    Rights: The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato Published 22 October 2020 Size: 4.6 MB Referencing Hub media

    A number of day-flying insects are attracted to the colour yellow. We can take advantage of this attraction when trapping insects for monitoring purposes.

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      Yellow pan traps – monitoring flying insects

      Insect vision is quite different to human vision, but insects do see colours, and they use their colour vision to get around and find food. We can exploit their preference for different colours ...

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