It is intended to be accessible to anyone with minimal handiwork or computer skills. The guide provides step-by-step instructions to build, set-up, and use a PICT. PICT can be used for a variety of purposes including, and not limited to, plant-insect interactions, bird feeding or nesting, amphibians’ nocturnal activities, predation by reptiles, insect’s behaviour.

It can be remotely controlled within up to 100 meters using a smartphone, a tablet or a laptop.

PICT is an affordable and powerful solution for those who desire to film for extended time in remote places.

It is designed to continuously film insect or other small animal activity in the wild. PICT (Plant-insect Interactions Camera Trap) is an inexpensive, DIY, camera trap system based on the open-source Raspberry Pi nano-computer.

Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Droissart V., Azandi L., Onguene E.R., Savignac M., Smith T.B., Deblauwe V. This practical guide is an annex to the paper: PICT: A low-cost, modular, open-source camera trap system to study plant-insect interactions.

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