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Sampling Animals Insects Tree Living Organisms 4.2.1(b Pooter

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- pooter (suck on mouthpiece, insects drawn into holding chamber, filter before mouthpiece prevents sucking into mouth, used for small insects)
- sweep nets (catch insects in long grass)
- pitfall traps (hole dug in ground and covered with roof structure to prevent filling with rainwater, used for small, crawling invertabrates)
- tree beating (large white cloth stretched out under tree, tree shaken to dislodge inverterbrates which fall on sheet, used for invertabrates living in tree/bush)
- kick sampling (river bank and bed kicked to disturb substrate, net held downstream to capture organisms released in flowing water, used for organisms living in river

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