Department of Music Technology & Acoustics, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Rethymno Crete 74100, Greece.
Department of Electronics, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Chania Crete 73133, Greece.
Sensors (Basel). 2017 Jan 8;17(1):110. doi: 10.3390/s17010110.
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.
双翅目实蝇科的昆虫会导致全球作物每年遭受严重损失。监测诱捕器是针对实蝇的综合虫害管理计划的重要组成部分。在这里，我们报告了对典型的低成本塑料诱捕器的修改，通过添加必要的光电传感器来监测诱捕器的入口，以便根据翅膀的光声频谱分析来检测、标记时间、GPS 标记和识别进入昆虫的种类。我们提出，将昆虫计数、环境参数和 GPS 坐标的自动流式传输纳入集体行为的信息可视化中，最终将能够在空间和时间尺度以及行政级别上做出更好的决策。所提出的设备已经达到产品成熟度水平，因为它已经解决了之前报告的研究中提出的许多悬而未决的问题。
