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Ninety pitfall traps were placed in a floodplain forest ground: one-third used 4% formaldehyde solution as a fixative, one-third used water, and one-third was left without any liquid to simulate the random probability of a catch. A layer of dry wood chips was used in the dry traps to reduce predation between the caught animals. The traps were placed in the field between April and May 2022 and emptied twice a week. Both the numbers of animals and the species caught were found to be significantly affected by the fixative solution in use. Significantly more woodlice were caught in traps filled with water; these traps also attracted significantly more <jats:italic>Porcellium conspersum<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Trachelipus rathkii<\/jats:italic> compared to the dry traps. Average day temperature and the order the traps were checked (i.e. date) had an influence on the animals caught as well. Additional laboratory experiments with <jats:italic>Porcellio scaber<\/jats:italic> confirmed that terrestrial isopods avoid formaldehyde pitfall traps more than those with water.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3897\/zookeys.1225.123647","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,5]],"date-time":"2025-02-05T13:55:46Z","timestamp":1738763746000},"page":"115-125","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["The effect of formaldehyde solution in pitfall traps on the probability of catching woodlice (Isopoda, Oniscidea)"],"prefix":"10.3897","volume":"1225","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0250-0482","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Ivan Hadri\u00e1n","family":"Tuf","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Palack\u00fd University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lucie","family":"Novotn\u00e1","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Palack\u00fd University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pavel","family":"Fry\u010dka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Palack\u00fd University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"2258","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"123647_B1","first-page":"177","article-title":"Problems of interpreting arthropod sampling with pitfall traps.","volume":"202","author":"Adis","year":"1979","journal-title":"Zoologischer Anzeiger"},{"key":"123647_B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s12210-016-0504-z"},{"key":"123647_B3","first-page":"259","article-title":"Traps for cave-inhabiting insects.","volume":"46","author":"Barber","year":"1931","journal-title":"Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society"},{"key":"123647_B4","first-page":"163","article-title":"Micro- and macro-arthropods.","author":"Bater","year":"1996","journal-title":"CAB International, Oxford"},{"key":"123647_B5","first-page":"55","article-title":"Echantillonnage des communaut\u00e9s de Col\u00e9opt\u00e8res Carabiques en milieu forestier. 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