ArticleApplied physics. B, Lasers and optics2023
Insect biomass density: measurement of seasonal and daily variations using an entomological optical sensor.
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- Extreme Biomimetics: Achievements and Fundamental Challenges for the Future.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Robust and diverse multidimensional statistical moments in dual-band entomological lidar for improved real-time insect monitoring.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- Advancing insect monitoring: analysis of mel-frequency cepstral coefficients from optical signals for body orientation estimation.Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics · 2026Article
- Lidar reveals distinct insect daily activity and diversity between habitats.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Deadliest Animals with the Thinnest Wings: Near-Infrared Properties of Tropical Mosquitoes.Applied spectroscopy · 2025Article
- Chitin estimation in agricultural soils.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2025Article
- Method for UAV propeller characterization using frequency analysis of Lidar signals.Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics · 2025Article
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- Temperature Dependency of Insect's Wingbeat Frequencies: An Empirical Approach to Temperature Correction.Insects · 2024Article
- Discrimination of Hover Fly Species and Sexes by Wing Interference Signals.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Monitoring the abundance of flying insects and atmospheric conditions during a 9-month campaign using an entomological optical sensor.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Insects are major actors in Earth's ecosystems and their recent decline in abundance and diversity is alarming. The monitoring of insects is paramount to understand the cause of this decline and guide conservation policies. In this contribution, an infrared laser-based system is used to remotely monitor the biomass density of flying insects in the wild. By measuring the optical extinction caused by insects crossing the 36-m long laser beam, the Entomological Bistatic Optical Sensor System used in this study can evaluate the mass of each specimen. At the field location, between July and December 2021, the instrument made a total of 262,870 observations of insects for which the average dry mass was 17.1 mg and the median 3.4 mg. The daily average mass of flying insects per meter cube of air at the field location has been retrieved throughout the season and ranged between near 0 to 1.2 mg/m
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