Group curators
Tom August
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Alba Gomez Segura
Autonomous camera traps for insects provide a tool for long-term remote monitoring of insects. These systems bring together cameras, computer vision, and autonomous infrastructure such as solar panels, mini computers, and data telemetry to collect images of insects.
With increasing recognition of the importance of insects as the dominant component of almost all ecosystems, there are growing concerns that insect biodiversity has declined globally, with serious consequences for the ecosystem services on which we all depend.
Automated camera traps for insects offer one of the best practical and cost-effective solutions for more standardised monitoring of insects across the globe. However, to realise this we need interdisciplinary teams who can work together to develop the hardware systems, AI components, metadata standards, data analysis, and much more.
This WILDLABS group has been set up by people from around the world who have individually been tackling parts of this challenge and who believe we can do more by working together.
We hope you will become part of this group where we share our knowledge and expertise to advance this technology.
Check out Tom's Variety Hour talk for an introduction to this group.
Learn about Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects by checking out recordings of our webinar series:
- Hardware design of camera traps for moth monitoring
- Assessing the effectiveness of these autonomous systems in real-world settings, and comparing results with traditional monitoring methods
- Designing machine learning tools to process camera trap data automatically
- Developing automated camera systems for monitoring pollinators
- India-focused projects on insect monitoring
Meet the rest of the group and introduce yourself on our welcome thread - https://www.wildlabs.net/discussion/welcome-autonomous-camera-traps-insects-group
Group curators
- @tom_august
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Computational ecologist with interests in computer vision, citizen science, open science, drones, acoustics, data viz, software engineering, public engagement
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- @pchwalek
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I'm a PhD candidate in the Responsive Environments Group, working on electronic systems for human and wildlife monitoring.
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Tech-Driven Conservation with a Wild Twist
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- @Manahil_ijaz
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I’m a nature enthusiast who loves exploring wildlife and ecosystems. Through my research in ecology, I channel this passion into protecting and preserving biodiversity.
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- @peterdesmet
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Biodiversity informatician at INBO. Passionate about open data and open science. I develop research software, maintain data standards and publish datasets, mostly for animal movement research.
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- @steventay
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Dynamique ET PROACTIF, JE SUIS PASSIONNÉ PAR LA PROTECTION DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT, LE TOURISME RESPONSABLE ET LA CONSERVATION DES ÉCOSYSTÈMES.
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- @mattaudette
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Software Tester and Test Automator at Wildlife Protection Solutions
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- @williams
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I am a conservationist specializing in endangered species, particularly vultures. As the Endangered Species Conservation Coordinator/Co-Founder at Biota Conservation Hub Foundation (BiotaCHF), I have conducted extensive research/conservation of vultures and other water birds.
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- @ARobillard
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A conservation data scientist and field ecologist with broad interest in the application of machine learning and population genetics to the conservation of threatened species. Alex has conducted field studies throughout central and south America, the Caribbean, and North America.
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Careers
PhD position at Marburg University in Germany
Vanesa Reyes
New opportunity to work with moths, camera light traps and citizen science in Germany.
5 August 2025
Article
A new underwater camera trap for freshwater wildlife monitoring
Xavier Mestdagh
Proud of sharing our paper introducing our underwater camera trap, a solution for automating the production of underwater images and videos of amphibians, reptiles, invertebrates, mammals...
2 July 2025
Link
Sticky Pi: A smart insect trap to study daily activity in the field
Amber Balfour-Cunningham
Sticky Pis are scalable, smart sticky traps using a high frequency Raspberry Pi camera to automatically score when, which and where insects were captured. Author: Quentin Geissmann, 2023
29 April 2025
Link
Insect Detect: Build your own insect-detecting camera trap!
Maximilian Pink
Sharing this website that provides instructions on DIY hardware assembly, software setup, model training and deployment of the Insect Detect camera trap that can be used for automated insect monitoring. Authors:...
29 April 2025
Article
Applications are open until April 15th
14 March 2025
Careers
Up to 6 months internship position to work on DiMON project which aims to develop a non-lethal, compact device that, when coupled with traditional entomological traps, captures high-resolution, multi-view insect images...
25 February 2025
Article
NewtCAM observations
Xavier Mestdagh
NewtCAM is an underwater camera trap. Devices are getting deployed worldwide in the frame of the CAMPHIBIAN project and thanks to the support of our kind early users. Here an outcome from the UK.
24 February 2025
Funding
Osa Conservation is launching our inaugural cohort of the ‘Susan Wojcicki Research Fellowship’ for 2025, worth up to $15,000 per awardee (award value dependent on project length and number of awards given each year)....
10 February 2025
Article
Catch up on the highlights from our two-day Mothbox v4.5 workshop at Georgia Tech, where participants gained hands-on experience building and testing the Mothbox.
13 November 2024
Article
Paper by Natalie Klug et al
6 October 2024
Funding
Paid internship making software to ID moths
Andrew Quitmeyer
The AMI team in montreal is looking for a paid intern to do machine vision stuff!
3 July 2024
November 2023
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| Me and @briannajohns field tested amphibious deployments for the Mothbox in cool jungle rivers!We designed the Mothbox to be super... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 5 months 2 weeks ago | |
| featuring @briannajohns @hikinghack @Hubertszcz |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 6 months 1 week ago | |
| Sounds like so much fun. Would love to replicate this one out here in Cambodia |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 6 months 3 weeks ago | |
| Wow! What a start of the year! Congratulations! |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 6 months 4 weeks ago | |
| I have the same problem and "roll your own," has seemed the answer so far. If you do find a pre-existing solution, please share the info! |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 8 months 4 weeks ago | |
| I believe you can indeed export detections as json files - but I have yet to try it out myself! I have more than 500k events with images from our data collection and test of the... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 9 months ago | |
| Super effort. Nice reporting! |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Latin America Community | 10 months 4 weeks ago | |
| Yay! We finally got all our documentation refined, and after dozens of iterations and updates we are happy to finally publicly... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 11 months ago | |
| Hi everyone, I am conducting a research project as part of my MSc in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics. I... |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Ethics of Conservation Tech | 1 year ago | |
| A fantastic solution @hikinghack ! Those Pijuice boards are more expensive than the pis themselves! It already sounds as if you've gotten the power use in sleep down a long... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 1 year 1 month ago | |
| I was thinking that you might be able to reduce the amount of time the lights were on by blinking them, but this paper seems to show that flickering mostly reduces the number of... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Latin America Community | 1 year 2 months ago | |
| Hey there @JakeBurton , sorry, I did not see your message! Why don't you shoot me an email with some tentative availability to luca.pegoraro (at) wsl.ch, and we take it from... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 1 year 2 months ago |
