Hand-held electric Aspirator

Motamedinia, Behnam; Rakhshani, Ehsan

doi:10.52547/jibs.3.4.281

Hand-held electric Aspirator "ElePooter": A cheap and efficient device for collecting insects

Authors

Behnam Motamedinia ¹

Ehsan Rakhshani ²

¹ Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), 19395-1454, Tehran, Iran.

² Department of Plant Protection,College of Agriculture,University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran

10.52547/jibs.3.4.281

Abstract

Several methods are using to collect insects from the environments, they are living in. The sweeping net is one of the commonly used equipment for collecting however the process of picking up the collected insects from net bag is laborious and time consuming job. In the present work we introduced a hand-held battery powered electric aspirator, which made based on a centrifugal fan which adapted into an especial storage bottle (replaceable). Field trials confirmed the efficiency of the new device in collecting insects from different orders, of which Diptera and Hymenoptera were dominant. Additional customization was made on the type of collecting bottle to enhance the applicability of the new device for different purposes. Finally, studies showed that the hand-held electric aspirator can be used successfully for faunistic and ecological studies.

Graphical Abstract

Keywords

Insect

spider

Sampling

pooter

new device

portable

transferring

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