NC Tree Bands and Arthropod "Collateral Damage"

The goal of this project is to document all non-target arthropods that become trapped in tree bands in North Carolina. I recently inspected trees in Charlotte where bands are put up to trap wingless Fall Cankerworm females (Alsophila pometaria) as they climb trunks in late fall and early winter. I counted the first 500 arthropods I saw and tallied just 2 cankerworms! Of course, this will vary among years and locations, but I was struck by the number of flies (133), beetles (101), hemipterans (65), spiders (54), millipedes (59), and lacewings (19) that were trapped unintentionally. My request is just that you join me in my quest to explore the entire arthropod fauna trapped by these bands in North Carolina, excluding Fall Cankerworms, the target species.

Alsophila pometaria female: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19848244
Alsophila pometaria male: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19848269 menos ↑