AMES, Iowa — A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not?

Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a smartphone or computer to feed the photo to a web-based application called InsectNet and, with the help of machine learning ...

Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a smartphone or computer to feed the photo to a web-based application called InsectNet and, with the help of machine learning ...

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Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a smartphone or computer to feed the photo into a web-based application called InsectNet and, with the help of machine ...

InsectNet -- which is backed by a dataset of 12 million insect images, including many collected by citizen-scientists -- provides identification and predictions for more than 2,500 insect species ...

Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a smartphone or computer to feed the photo into a web-based application called InsectNet and, with the help of machine learning ...