Automated Insect Monitoring System

An automated insect monitoring system, comprising:

• a housing;
• an interior chamber within the housing, the interior chamber having a floor with a floor surface;
• a crevice providing access to the interior chamber from outside the automated insect monitoring system;
• a light source arranged within the housing to illuminate, at least intermittently, at least a portion of the floor surface;
• a multi-pixel optical sensor arranged within the housing so that multiple pixels of the optical sensor each correspond to a unique segment of the floor surface within a field of view of the multi-pixel optical sensor;
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• a processing circuit arranged within the housing and configured to receive optical data from the multi-pixel optical sensor, to analyze the optical data to detect the intrusion of an insect or other object into the interior chamber by comparing most recently received optical data to previously received optical data, and to generate an indication in response to detecting the intrusion of the insect or other object into the interior chamber.