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Mothbox 4.0

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207 points bookofjoe | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 14:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.277s | source
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nerdponx ◴[15 Oct 24 14:54 UTC] No.41849257[source]▶
Are there any "citizen science" initiatives where I can buy a device like this and upload my insect counts to some database that's useful for researchers?

I have been interested in setting up some things like home weather monitoring, ADS-B, streaming webcams for wildlife, etc. anyway so this would be a fun item to add to that.

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gibspaulding ◴[15 Oct 24 15:38 UTC] No.41849694[source]▶
Cornell is doing something along those lines for birds using audio recordings. It’s just a smartphone app though - https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/sound-id/
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1. beardyw ◴[15 Oct 24 15:57 UTC] No.41849903[source]▶
I was using it today, and any day when there are birds around. It correctly identifies birds you can barely hear. It's become as useful as binoculars to me. A great free app.