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This means that more intense monitoring is needed, but this poses many challenges: Collecting is comparatively easy and carried out at many locations worldwide using standardized methods such as Malaise traps that preserve the specimens in ethanol. However, a comprehensive, systematic evaluation of these samples at the specimen-level is not yet possible due to the large number of specimens and the lack of taxonomic experts who can identify the specimens to species level. We thus here present a new mini-gripper for the automated handling of insects preserved in ethanol. The mini-gripper automatically picks insects from bulk samples as long as they are in the 7.5\u202fmm\u201315\u202fmm size range to be transferred to the DiversityScanner, where they are classified using a trained AI model. 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