coloured pan-traps to sample Musca domestica

Samplings were performed
at the caged-layer poultry facility called as Aviário Santo Antônio located at Nepomuceno city, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Four sets of pan-traps were randomly placed next to the to the cages of
the poultry farm. Each set of plan-trap consisted of four subsets of plastic
pots painted in white, yellow, red and blue colours, therefore, totalizing 16
samples in the field.
Inside
each pot was added 500ml of water with detergent and salt used to remove the
surface tension of the water and to preserve the collected flies in the pots. The
pots remained in the field for Sampling was performed weekly from September 2017 to June 2018.
After collecting the adult flies, the content of each of the 16
subsamples were stored in sealed glass jars containing absolute alcohol (99%).
Flies were quantified and identified in the lab by using an optical microscope.