


Sweep Net in the Sky: Team Designs Drone for Insect Scouting
Unmanned aerial vehicles are finding a variety of applications in agriculture, and a team at the University of Idaho has developed an open-source drone design that can successfully sample insects in a field.

Counting Bees: How Mark-Recapture Methods Can Validate Wild Bee Sampling Protocols
Monitoring wild bee populations is a tricky proposition, with common methods all having inherent biases. A new study uses mark-recapture to get a better picture of how various bee sampling methods measure up.

Collecting Insects: Tricks of the Trade
New to insect collecting? Whether you're a student just getting started in entomology or a hobbyist exploring your own backyard, here's a primer on tools and tactics for gathering a variety of insects and arthropods.

Putting the Field in Fieldwork: Testing the Quality of Commercial Data
Repeatability measures suggest that large ecoinformatics datasets gathered by commercial agriculture could be a robust source of data for entomologists.