I don’t have much rotting wood around here to break into. Any other suggestions where I can find more little critters?

Where I am from deforested often means more insects, especially ants, there are 152 species of ants recorded from the island of Hispaniola, and that is probably an under count, so I don’t think you have any shortage of insects in deforested area. I usually find insects on the ground and on low plant…

Go out at different times during the year, some species of bees are active in the early seasons that aren’t out later in the summer for example. There’s even a few winter species. Look at flowers hanging upside-down. I have a bunch that like ground cherries in my area that are very hard to find w…

I am on the Yucatán Peninsula. I find a lot of insects by looking on the undersides of leaves and by watching to see where there are ants, which tend the juveniles of many hoppers . I also find a lot by being very methodical, taking one plant and systematically looking over it carefully, including w…

Since getting a macro lens, I found a lot of fairly small to tiny insects nestled in the centers of flowers. These would have been all but invisible to me before. Look at the underside of leaves to see what you can find. If you have a yard/porch/front-door light you leave on all night, check it be…

I recently experienced the use of fermented shrimp juice as an attractant for butterflies. The concoction is made of blended shrimp in water that is allowed to sit for a few days. It is then strained to remove particulates and applied on plants in the sun to bring in the butterflies and get them t…

I agree with searching at night! It’s amazing how many insects are nocturnally active, and I find they’re often easier to spot under torchlight too. Light sheets are quick and easy to set up, and extremely effective too Using a decent torch at night is a really good way to find nocturnal spiders, m…

Do you have any advice about this? Is it a brush sweeping kinda net or just catching things you see flying around?

If you could set up a light trap of some kind or pitfall trap that might be worth checking out. Maybe even baiting some trees

I think a solution that works kinda everywhere on the globe is to looking under rocks :) [image] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/241832004 [image] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/242514891 I’ve been looking under a rock when I’ve found this pretty unobserved lifer so… who kno…

[image] ra_teo: I think a solution that works kinda everywhere on the globe is to looking under rocks Well, everywhere there are rocks, anyway… :-)

Any tips for finding more insects?

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