Automated insect monitoring methods, such as custom camera traps that record insect activity, can complement traditional methods to acquire data at a high spatiotemporal resolution with minimal required effort. Due to the stationary nature of camera traps, insects have to be attracted into the field of view of the camera. For nocturnal insect species, specialized UV lights are used as effective attractant to usually white platforms/sheets. Other approaches are required for attracting diurnal pollinators, including the utilization of artificial flowers and platforms that exploit the attractive properties of specific shapes and colours.
In this webinar, we will dive deeper into the colour preferences of bees and hoverflies and share hands-on experiences and first results about ongoing efforts in design and development of 2D and 3D artificial flower platforms for effective and standardized pollinator attraction to camera traps.
In the first part of the webinar (90 minutes) we will hear four talks about:
Prof. Klaus Lunau (former head of the Institute of Sensory Ecology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf): Colour preferences in bees and hoverflies
Maximilian Pink (Julius Kühn Institute) & Michael Getz (Oregon State University): Hoverfly and wild bee responses to attractant platforms
Simon Wogram & Murray Hamilton (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ): Evaluating different colour pigments for enhanced pollinator attraction in 3D-printed floral models
Abra Ash (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology): Designing realistic 3D-printed artificial flowers for automated pollinator monitoring
Watch the webinar recording here:
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