Productivity · News · 🇧🇷 Brazil
Identify soybean and corn pests with your phone, even without signal
A tool built with IFMT researchers recognizes four pests from a photo and turns the records into maps.
- Profession
- Farmer, Agronomist
- Tools
- AgroInsect
- Source
- primeirapagina.com.br ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- September 12, 2026
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
The app recognizes four species from a photo, such as Dalbulus maidis (corn leafhopper) and Diabrotica speciosa, and geotags each record. Part of the processing happens on the phone itself.
How it went
It works with little connectivity. The article gives no usage numbers.
Good to know
Confirm the identification with an agronomist before applying any pesticide (agronomic prescription).
The prompt
I photographed this pest in my [crop] field at stage [x]. Describe what to look for to confirm the species, the level of damage that justifies control, and what to ask my agronomist.
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