New radar station will monitor both beneficial insects and harmful invasive bugs like the Fall Armyworm moth.

Researchers from the University of Haifa have recently installed the first insect radar of its kind in the Hula Valley in Israel.

The device will allow scientists to obtain vital information about insects,  says Prof. Nir Sapir of the university’s department of evolutionary and environmental biology.

The radar can monitor insects that “are of great importance for wild plants and agriculture, as well as other insects that cause damage to agriculture, such as various species of moths,” Sapir said.

Photo: A butterfly resting on a bush at Hula Lake in northern Israel. Kobi Gideon/FLASH90