Sampling riparian arthropods with flight-interception bottle traps

Abstract

Abundances of arthropods captured in flightinterception bottle traps and on branches within plots of narrow-leaved willows and Fremont cottonwoods were associated across 15 taxa (mostly orders) collected. Abundances within taxa were associated only in Homoptera. These traps may provide a simple and economical method for sampling arthropods in created riparian habitat.