Bitten by the e bug
Technology is the new buzzword in the field of entomology. The Oregon State University in the us has received a us $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a method for identifying insects. The plan is to use pattern recognition systems of the kind employed by a computer to tell apart fingerprints.
The researchers admit that while identifying two-dimensional, black and white images of fingerprints may be easy, recognising insects