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The work's goal is to create a numerical classification of the diversity one can find on a given place (I was contacted to collect and to try to identify insects). David, when you say ?do a minimum of three field trip days? do you mean 3 days in each month, or 3 days during that 3 month period (1 day in each month)? Another thing, how do you use sweep netting in a study of this kind? Do you do a fixed number of sweeps in a given route, or do you actively capture the specimen of interest?



Yes Tony, I believe that is the final goal of the work (I'm not directing it, I just capture and try to identify the insects, as I've said)

Regarding the dipterans, I'll almost surely use Tachinidae, maybe Bombyliidae as well, given these are also parasitoids. I still have to give more thought to which families I'll use, but I think the ideal would be to choose a small number of them. I'm just going to choose the ones that are of extreme importance to the study. Thanks a lot to both of you for more of this precious help.;)