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The captures of Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Homoptera–Hemiptera were compared during simultaneous operation of glass-barrier, Malaise, rotary, and sticky traps. The results show that the rotary is by far the most reliable and versatile for most groups of insects, then the Malaise, glass-barrier, and sticky traps in a decreasing order of reliability but increasing order of versatility.
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J. A. Juillet (1963) studied this question.
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