Automated Surveillance of Fruit Flies

Insects of the Diptera order of the Tephritidae family cause costly, annual crop losses worldwide. Monitoring traps are important components of integrated pest management programs used against fruit flies. Here we report the modification of typical, low-cost plastic traps for fruit flies by adding t...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2017-01, Vol.17 (1), p.110-110
Main Authors: Potamitis, Ilyas, Rigakis, Iraklis, Tatlas, Nicolaos-Alexandros
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
automatic monitoring
Automation
Decision making
Devices
Diptera
Fruit flies
insect surveillance
Insects
Losses
Optoelectronic devices
Pesticides
Pests
Pheromones
precision agriculture
Sensors
Spectrum analysis
Surveillance
Tephritidae
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Summary:Insects of the Diptera order of the Tephritidae family cause costly, annual crop losses worldwide. Monitoring traps are important components of integrated pest management programs used against fruit flies. Here we report the modification of typical, low-cost plastic traps for fruit flies by adding the necessary optoelectronic sensors to monitor the entrance of the trap in order to detect, time-stamp, GPS tag, and identify the species of incoming insects from the optoacoustic spectrum analysis of their wingbeat. We propose that the incorporation of automated streaming of insect counts, environmental parameters and GPS coordinates into informative visualization of collective behavior will finally enable better decision making across spatial and temporal scales, as well as administrative levels. The device presented is at product level of maturity as it has solved many pending issues presented in a previously reported study.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s17010110