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| Title | How well do wasp traps really work? |
| Group | Biosystematics Group |
| Project type | internship |
| Credits | 24-36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Jan Wieringa and Aglaia Bouma bij Naturalis |
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| Contact info | freeek.bakker@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2024/06/01 |
| End date | 2024/10/01 |
| Description | The aim of this project is to establish whether traps that lure and drown wasps with alcohol and sweet beverages work selectively and proportionally. Do fewer “lemonade wasps”- the common wasp Vespula vulgaris and the German wasp V. germanica - fly around where these traps are used, compared to locations where the animals are lured away with a bowl of jam or where no action is being taken? What other insects are caught in these traps and what is their proportion in the total catch?
Start summer 2024 for at least 4 months. |
| Used skills | insect identification, science communication |
| Requirements | BSc Biology |