Optimum distance for installing attractive neotropical social wasp traps: a statistical projection

Abstract

Considering the value of fauna inventories and the lack of studies dedicated to the spatial aspects of social wasp species, or the methods used to collect them, this study estimates and analyzes, on a local scale, the ideal distance for the installation of attractive traps for studies social wasp diversity studies. The work was developed at the Botanic Garden of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, in which 40 attractive traps were installed to evaluate the installation distances between 10 m and 390 m from each other. From the results, it is possible to suggest that, according to the size of the studied area, the traps are installed at distances between 10 m and 150 m from others, allowing fewer traps in the field and saving time and cost.