Real-time insect monitoring device

An insect monitoring device comprising:

• an open-ended insect inspection cylinder for connection at one end, in use, to an outlet from an open-ended insect interception trap, where sectional dimensions of the inspection cylinder are sized to prevent an insect selected for observation from flying through the inspection cylinder, and instead requiring the insect to walk through the inspection cylinder;
• an insect detector associated with the inspection cylinder to detect insects inside the inspection cylinder as the insects walk through the inspection cylinder;
• and
• a camera system associated with the inspection cylinder and the insect detector, the camera system including a camera to capture images of particular views of insects in desired orientations inside the inspection cylinder detected by the insect detector,
• wherein the inspection cylinder includes an inner surface, and the inner surface is constituted to make it difficult for the insect to walk on a first portion of the inner surface, and the sectional dimensions of the inspection cylinder prevent the insect from flying through the inspection cylinder, and said camera is disposed relative to the inspection cylinder to capture a view of a second portion of the inner surface to capture the images of the particular views of insects in the desired orientations inside the inspection cylinder.