The objectives are to test the prototypes of pheromone sensors in decreasingly controlled conditions to ultimately deploy them in field conditions to assess their efficiency as tools of early detection of invasive insect pests.
We fill first work in a green-house for the best control of environmental parameters and pheromone emission points. In these conditions we will test biological and then physical sensors and assess their sensitivity, distance of detection and how they depend on environmental conditions. These experimental data will feed modeling developments on risk map generation.
Then, both sensor types will be tested in open space to assess their efficiency in non-controlled environmental conditions but still knowing the pheromone emission points.
Last, we will use physical sensors on natural populations of insect pests in the fields.