Subsamples of ALUS Southern Ontario Insects

Insect biodiversity is a key indicator for ecological well-being when measuring the success of restorative efforts. Malaise insect traps from 32 different restoration, conservation, and high impact farming sites across southern Ontario, Canada have been used to collect 1.4 million individuals. Here we include 505 images (434 sorted, 71 mixed) of approximately 20 individuals per image as a machine learning dataset. We also include a subset of these datasets containing extracted individuals (11,387 sorted, 1,772 mixed). Images were captured using a high resolution camera on a backlit background.