{"id":632,"date":"2026-06-07T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entoecologiainsectos.com\/?p=632"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:21:40","slug":"inteligencia-artificial-en-la-selva-de-panama-el-nuevo-aliado-para-identificar-insectos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entoecologiainsectos.com\/en\/inteligencia-artificial-en-la-selva-de-panama-el-nuevo-aliado-para-identificar-insectos\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence in the Jungle of Panama: The new ally to identify insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Panama is home to one of the largest varieties of life on the planet, but its dense biodiversity hides a great challenge to science: the speed at which they disappear species is greater than the time it takes for scientists to classify them manually. Identify thousands of creatures with microscopic magnifying glass is like trying to count the grains of sand on a beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luckily, the future of conservation has come to the forest panamanian hand in hand <strong>Artificial intelligence (AI)<\/strong>. Researchers in the isthmus are using advanced algorithms to revolutionize the entomology (study of insects).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The \"Photocall\" of moths in Barro Colorado Island<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The epicenter of this innovation lies in the <strong>Laboratory of Arthropods of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)<\/strong> in Panama. There is implemented a pioneering system called <strong>Monitor Insect Automated (AMI)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How this system works? It is strikingly witty:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Attraction of light:<\/strong> Installed stations equipped with uv lights that attract nocturnal insects, especially moths.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Photograph automated:<\/strong> In place of capture and sacrifice to the insect as it was traditionally, an automated camera takes high resolution shots every 10 seconds.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Training of the algorithm:<\/strong> The system generates more than a thousand photos per week. These images are processed through an algorithm of machine learning (<em>machine learning<\/em>) trained to recognize the patterns of the wings, shapes, and sizes of each species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tradition vs. Artificial intelligence: A necessary change<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The monitoring is a traditional logistics bottleneck for scientists. Look at how technology is changing the rules of the game in the panamanian rain forest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><td><strong>Traditional Method<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Monitoring with Artificial Intelligence<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Required to collect and sacrificing copies in traps from network or sheets.<\/td><td><strong>Non-invasive method:<\/strong> Just picture the insect, and this continues on his way.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Weeks or months of manual classification with magnifying glass in laboratories.<\/td><td><strong>Classification in real-time<\/strong> or massive data processing software.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Limited capacity by the number of taxonomic experts available.<\/td><td>Allows you to process thousands of images and capture the \"diversity dark\" quickly.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The library that is burning:<\/strong> The scientists of the STRI use a crude metaphor: <em>\"We're burning the library before they can read the books\"<\/em>. The AI is the tool that allows us to read that library biodiversity at full speed before the climate change extinct species that we don't even know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The challenges of the algorithm in the tropics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the progress is spectacular, the artificial intelligence in the jungle is still in the learning phase. Panama is home to more than <strong>4,000 species of moths<\/strong>, which confuses computer systems in their early stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, the algorithm makes mistakes funny, as confuse some types of crickets with moths because of the position of their feet or the texture of their bodies. For this reason, the scientists ' work is still vital: the taxonomists human review and \"correct\" the results of the AI so that the system becomes ever more intelligent and accurate. It is expected that in a few years the software to achieve almost perfect accuracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The use of artificial intelligence to identify insects in Panama shows that the leading-edge technology not only serves to create mobile applications or to automate offices; it is a tool of survival and planetary. Thanks to these eyes digital in the jungle, Panama continues to position themselves as the natural laboratory most important thing in the world to understand and save our biodiversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science and technology merge in the panamanian rain forest. Discover how scientists from the Smithsonian Institute are using Artificial Intelligence algorithms to identify and protect thousands of species of insects in real-time and without altering their habitat. 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