Bichos ID

Bichos ID is a tool from Fucesa for identifying insects, spiders and other arthropods using artificial intelligence. It lets visitors browse and search the bugs that people encounter, and is aimed at anyone curious about an insect or spider they have come across, from casual users to members of its identification community.

Bichos ID organizes its entries around that community: a most-searched section shows the bugs people look up most often, and a new-discoveries section highlights species identified recently by other users. This is expanding collective knowledge of the arthropod world a little more with each passing day, rather than relying only on a fixed, pre-built catalog.

A separate, expert-curated section called Destacados lists organisms chosen by Bichos ID's own specialists rather than submitted by the community. The wider catalog spans a large range of species identified on the platform, among them the violin spider, the black widow spider, the American cockroach and the German cockroach.

Use cases

• Looking up the identity of an unfamiliar bug
• Exploring recently identified species from the community