Dear all,
I have a short question with the hope of getting back long answers:
Is anyone working in the field of detecting and analyzing sounds of flying insects (e.g. flies, bees, other Hymenoptera) or know of people/working groups studying this issue?
While there are some publications (e.g. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13592-018-0619-6) it seems like little research is yet done in this topic. Could a reason for the neglect of acoustic insect monitoring be the difficulties in analyzing insect sounds on a deeper taxon level (family, genus)?
Thank you for your answers and contributions!
Best regards,
Max
18 December 2020 6:14pm
this guys has been around a long and has some neat stuff http://songsofinsects.com/about
but sure looks like a wide-open area of research ...
4 January 2021 12:26pm
Tom Dally at Leeds University UK is doing work in this area. I dont think he has anything published yet but his preliminary results are interesting (saw them at a workshop).
https://biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/school-of-biology/pgr/753/thomas-dally
Tom
Chris Nicholas
Society for Conservation GIS