Protocols:

The following are the main protocols selected by the Diptera TWIG for the present project.

Protocol for Setting Up Malaise Traps and Handling Samples

Protocols for Culicidae (Darlene Judd)

Protocols for Ceratopogonidae (Art Borkent)

Protocols for Dolichopodidae (Daniel Bickel)

Protocols for Asilidae (Eric Fisher)

Protocols for Sarcophagidae (Thomas Pape)

Protocol for Acalyptratae (Stephen Marshall and Matthias Buck)

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Protocols for Sarcophagidae (Thomas Pape)

Sarcophagids are primarily collected during the day along sunny paths, on boulders, on tree-trunks, and on hill-tops with ordinary sweep net. Some species readily visit flowers. Bait may be extremely productive (rotting fish-heads and squids are excellent) and can be combined with Malaise traps (good also for many phorids and sphaerocerids). Bait, however, works much, much better when placed in direct sunlight. What will definitely be a serious bottle-neck is the preparation of male genitalia. My experience is that male specimens only a few years old are readily relaxed in a humid container (usually with little damage to pollinosity, etc.), and genitalia may be pulled out with a pair of very fine forceps. Genitalia will often have to be separated from the remaining abdomen and glued to a small cardboard pinned under the specimen. A simple technique - but it takes time.

 

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