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What blacklight is good for catching queens


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#1 Offline SamKeepsAnts - Posted January 16 2017 - 11:44 AM

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I am buying a blacklight that I am going to put in my backyard at night and take out to the desert ro get queens any suggestions for strong rechargeable blacklights for catching queens?


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#2 Offline antgenius123 - Posted January 16 2017 - 11:49 AM

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How about this http://www.blackligh...acklights2.html


 
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#3 Offline SamKeepsAnts - Posted January 16 2017 - 2:09 PM

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Good exept it uses batteries and a want a rechargeable


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#4 Offline CrazyLegs - Posted January 16 2017 - 4:23 PM

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Could always just get rechargable batteries. :)


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#5 Offline gcsnelling - Posted January 16 2017 - 4:25 PM

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You need something you can run off your car battery. Bioquip sells such a light but they are pricey. You could probably make one far cheaper.

 

http://bioquip.com/S...2900&prodtype=1



#6 Offline MrUrrutia - Posted January 16 2017 - 4:30 PM

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Do you have any particular design for the UV trap?


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#7 Offline gcsnelling - Posted January 16 2017 - 5:05 PM

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I just hang a sheet and the light off the side of my car.



#8 Offline MrUrrutia - Posted January 16 2017 - 6:31 PM

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I'm thinking to use one to try my luck with camponotus around May.

 

I want to go to the local wooded areas and walk for a while looking on some old and broken trees on the day and setting the black light on the afternoon on my backyard... there are a lot of big old trees on my neighborhood and even a small park that looks like jungle-forest so maybe I will get something interesting!!!


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#9 Offline dspdrew - Posted January 16 2017 - 9:55 PM

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Best to just go to Walmart and pickup one of their cheap 4' fixtures and one or two of their 4' black light bulbs. Then just get a little cigarette lighter inverter. You could even grab a cheap white sheet while you're there too. That's all I use.


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#10 Offline Socalfireants - Posted March 8 2017 - 7:42 AM

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Best to just go to Walmart and pickup one of their cheap 4' fixtures and one or two of their 4' black light bulbs. Then just get a little cigarette lighter inverter. You could even grab a cheap white sheet while you're there too. That's all I use.

Drew, what do you mean when you say 4' fixture? I can't find it. 



#11 Offline dspdrew - Posted March 8 2017 - 3:27 PM

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4-foot long fluorescent bulb fixture. Probably the most common out there.






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