Pest management is among the most important activities in a farm. Monitoring all different
species visually may not be effective, especially in large properties. Accordingly …

The potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli (Šulc)(Hemiptera: Triozidae), transmits the
pathogen “Candidatus liberibacter solanacearum”(Lso), the putative causal agent of zebra …

Background Early plant diseases and pests identification reduces social, economic, and
environmental deficiencies entailing toxic chemical utilization on agricultural farms, thus …

Detecting invertebrate pests on crops at early stages is essential for pest management.
Traditionally, traps were used to sample pests and then human experts undertook …

Highlights•CNNs were trained for identification of Psyllids in traps.•The effects of using
images captured with scanners and smartphones were investigated.•Experiments employed …

Simple Summary The tomato bug is a generalist predator commonly used to control insect
pests. This exotic mirid was found in 2012 in South Texas and has been established in this …

Highlights An AI-enabled web application was developed to classify insects on sticky traps.
The AI models were trained on images exposed to real environmental conditions …

Cost efficiency in biosecurity surveillance is vital, and the ability to survey multiple pest
species using just one trap is, therefore, highly appealing. The Psylloidea, or plantlice …

Deep learning architectures like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are quickly
becoming the standard for detecting and counting objects in digital images. However, most …

The tomato potato psyllid, B actericera cockerelli (Š ulc, 1909), is a major biosecurity threat
to A ustralian solanaceous crop industries. Native to N orth and C entral A merica, B …