Punch; 1 soft drinks: Vernors ginger ale, 

 Pepsi, Mr. Pibb, Barrelhead root beer, and 

 Mellow yellow; food flavorings: coconut, red 

 raspberry, rum, vanilla, anise, and almond; 

 others: molasses, blackberry wine, beer, 

 maple syrup, malt extract, and fresh, black 

 oak wood chips and brown sugar. 



About 250 ml of a liquid bait, 20 ml of a 

 food flavoring, 1 lb of crushed fruit, or about 

 1 liter of fresh black oak chips and 1 lb of 

 brown sugar were added to about 3 liters of 

 water in a bucket. One lb of sucrose was 

 added to each bucket except for those con- 

 taining honey, molasses, or maple syrup. 

 Baker's yeast was sprinkled into each bucket 

 to start fermentation. 



The buckets were hung on nails driven into 

 live black (Quercus velutina) and scarlet 

 (Q. coccinea) oaks growing along forest roads 

 in Vinton County, Ohio. The buckets were 

 spaced 15 m or more apart along about 5 km 

 of roads. The buckets were checked daily 

 except for weekends and a large tea strainer 

 was used to remove trapped insects. Trapping 

 dates were June 18 to August 17. 



RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 



Only two "wild" red oak borers, 1 male 

 and 1 female, were trapped in 8 weeks and 

 these were captured the last week in June and 

 first week of July. The female was caught 

 with tupelo honey and the male with molasses 

 bait. Four artificially reared red oak borers 

 that escaped from a cage being used in a 

 pheromone study were captured, the same 

 night they escaped, in a bucket with molasses 

 bait. 



Many species of cerambycids were caught 

 (see listing), some in large numbers. Since the 

 primary purpose of the study was to trap red 

 oak borers, exact numbers of other species 

 caught were not recorded but representative 

 species were kept and recorded. 



The best baits for cerambycids were malt 

 extract, watermelon, and bananas. The soft 

 drinks and food flavorings, with the exception 

 of rum, were very poor. 



Mention of a particular product or trade name does 

 not imply endorsement by the U.S. Department 

 of Agriculture or th)e forest Service. 



Two possible reasons for the poor red oak 

 borer catch were a very low population of 

 beetles and above normal rainfall in Southern 

 Ohio during July and August. The two wild 

 and four escaped artificially reared beetles 

 were caught during the only dry period of 

 the season. Had not so much moisture been 

 available to the beetles they might have been 

 attracted to the liquid baits in the buckets. 

 Either the beetles were not strongly attracted 

 to any of the baits tested or bait buckets are 

 not good traps for red oak borers. 



LITERATURE CITED 



Champlain, A.B., and H.B. Kirk. 



1926. Bait pan insects. Entomol. News 37:288- 

 291. 



Champlain, A.B., and J.N. Knull. 



1932. Fermenting baits for trapping elateridae and 

 cerambycidae (Coleop.)- Entomol. News 43:253- 

 257. 



Hay, C. John. 



1969. The life history of a red oak borer and its 

 behavior in red, black, and scarlet oak. Proc. North 

 Cent. Branch Entomol. Soc. 24:125-127. 



Species Trapped in Study 



Anoplodera proxima (Say) 



Asemum striatum (L.) 



Cyrtophorus verrucosus (Olivier) 



Derancistrus taslei (Buquet) 



Distenia undata (Fab.) 

 *Eburia quadrigeminata (Say) 



Elaphidionoides incertus (Newman) 



Elaphidionoides parallelus (Newman) 

 ^Elaphidionoides uillosus (Fab.) 



Enderces picipes (Fab.) 



Graphisurus fasciatus (Degeer) 

 *Leptura emarginata (Fab.) 

 *Leptura vittata (Germar) 



Neoclytus acuminatus (Fab.) 



Neoclytus scutellaris (Olivier) 

 *Orthosoma brunneum (Forster) 



Parandra brunnea (Fab.) 



Purpuricenus axillaris (Haldeman) 



Purpuricenus humeralis (Fab.) 

 *Strangalina luteicornis (Fab.) 



Tylonotus bimaculatus (Haldeman) 

 *Typocerus velutinus (Olivier) 

 *Xylotrechus colonus (Fab.) 



*25 or more specimens trapped 



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