Insect biodiversity is in decline and in order to reverse the trend, we need novel methods to measure it. Entomological lidar instruments can measure insect activity and yield vast amounts of data, operating autonomously in the field. FaunaPhotonics has developed a near field lidar that’s capable of autonomous in field operation for months. Insect data is recorded automatically extracted and sent to a cloud platform ever 10 minutes. By collecting a library of labelled data from known species, we have trained a neural network to identify key pests. Additionally, by applying clustering methods to the recorded data, we can estimate the biodiversity in a recording. This allows automatic biodiversity monitoring with high temporal resolution even in remote areas.