Device records pest sounds to inform farmers about where to efficiently eliminate pests
About two years ago, University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Emily Bick went down a research rabbit hole.
She was trying to find a way to stop moths in Indonesia from destroying sugarcane crops. In her research, she learned that spy agencies used to attach microphones to walls and translate the vibrations into speech.
She wondered if she could use those methods to detect and identify pests that destroy crops in the field.
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