Pest monitoring is one of the most important tasks in modern agriculture—and also one of the most challenging. Farmers must constantly watch for insects that can damage crops long before any visible symptoms appear in the field. Traditionally, this monitoring relies on manual inspections: technicians visit fields, check traps and count insects captured over several days.Although this method has been widely used for decades, it has clear limitations. Field inspections require time, labour and resources, and they only provide a snapshot of pest activity at the moment the trap is checked. Between visits, pest populations may grow quickly and infestations can develop unnoticed.This creates a