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Closeup of a mottled light brown and white moth perched horizontally on a green fern branch, facing toward the viewer and to the right. The moth has black eyes and tall antennae standing straight up, each slightly curved with long bristles extending outward horizontally along the length of the antennae.

For Large-Scale Pest Insect Detection, Traps in Parallel Lines More Efficient Than Grids

Detecting pest insects across large areas means placing vast numbers of traps, with associated costs to set them up and check them regularly. Grid patterns have been the traditional choice, but a new study shows trap-placement patterns using parallel lines could be just as effective with much lower servicing requirements.

Entomology Today May 16, 2023 Leave a Comment

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.

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