Sensors to Identify Pests at Different Stages

Question

One of the biggest challenges in agriculture is getting rid of pests (e.g. codling moth, boll weevil any many).
The yields could be improved if we would be are able to identify pest germination at the earlier stages, act immediately and get rid of them. Can this be achieved through an automated system using wireless sensor networks (WSN).
Do you know any sensors available to identify pests at the different stages of their existence (germination stage, growth stage, at movement stage)?
Is it possible to design a control and monitoring system using WSN?
Share your thoughts please.

Yaroslav Gryaznov · Answer

Ecological program “Living Water” - http://www.vrenergie.com/index.php/ecopolis/ecological-program-living-water.html

Stephanie Race · Answer

Daniel,  We have developed novel methods for pest and disease detection and control which include early warning systems for monitoring insects vectoring viruses, fungal spores and weather to know  infection risk of pests and disease prior to visual symptoms on the crop.  Our decision support tools inform spatially explicit fungicide and pesticide spray recommendations.  We also provide data on fungicide and pesticide resistance in the crop caused by over spraying. 
Email me for details.  
Srace@crop-performance.com
Regards,
Stephanie Race

Jean Arenas · Answer

Daniel:
 
Please research the offerings put forth by these companies.
http://www.caipos.com/products/disease-and-pest-management/
http://www.adcon.com/solutions/disease-models-104/
You may contact me after for a more thoughtful discussion on the implementation.
 
Regards,
Jean Y. Arenas

Diana Davidson · Answer

Hi Daniel. Pest development is typically seasonal and triggered by temperature and changes in  weather conditions. If you can monitor and predict these changes locally, adopt best practice cultivation methods and grow pest resistant varieties, your risk profile and overhead costs will be dramatically reduced.

Prem Baboo · Answer

Dear Daniel
Plant diseases and pests can affect a wide range of commercial crops, and result in a significant yield loss. It is reported that at least 10% of global food production is lost due to plant diseases .Agriculture has increasingly become dependent on chemical pesticides to control the pests that damage the crops. Heightened concern over the environmental effects of pesticides, coupled with increased pest resistance and secondary pest outbreaks, severely limits the effective pesticides available to farmers. As weather patterns change, crops mature, and cattle graze pastures for food, farmers must decide when to irrigate pastures, apply fertilizer, or move cattle to another pasture. A farmer relies on a combination of experience, visual observation, intuition and he has to perform periodical surveys over a widespread plantation which is a time consuming activity. Acoustic detection technology is a far better substitute to these laborious tasks. Sugarcane takes 10-18 months to grow and is therefore liable to be attacked by a number of insects, pests and diseases. Its production declines by 19 - 20 % by their attacks. To increase the crop productivity, management of insect-pest and diseases is of great significance. Sugarcane is infested by about 288 insects of which nearly two dozen causes heavy losses to the quality as well as quantity of the crop.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_the_sensors_available_to_identify_various_types_of_pests_at_the_different_stages_of_their_existence?_tpcectx=profile_questions
 
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