None of the global targets for protecting nature are currently met, although humanity is
critically dependent on biodiversity. A significant issue is the lack of data for most biodiverse …

Climate change, soil erosion, and degradation among others affect the growth and
production of crops. Soil is suffering from intensive farming and unsustainable soil …

Whiteflies and fruit flies are common pests that adversely affect greenhouse crops, so it is
vital to control their numbers promptly. Current research involves setting up artificial …

Insects play crucial roles in ecosystems, and how they disperse within their habitat has
significant implications for our daily life. Examples include foraging ranges for pollinators, as …

In the evolving landscape of precision agriculture, the integration of remote pest traps with
deep learning technologies marks a critical step forward in remote pest detection, with the …

Our aim is to promote the widespread use of electronic insect traps that report captured
pests to a human-controlled agency. This work reports on edge-computing as applied to …

Several lepidopterans are pests in horticulture and pose biosecurity risks to trading
countries worldwide. Efficient species-specific semiochemical lures are available for some of …

Synthetic insecticides are widely used against plant pest insects to protect the crops.
However, many insecticides have poor selectivity and are toxic also to beneficial insects …

The development of new operational techniques for monitoring adult populations of the
tomato leafminer, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick)(Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), is regarded as a …

This study describes the development of an image-based insect trap diverging from the plug-
in camera insect trap paradigm in that (a) it does not require manual annotation of images to …