“…Statisticians have proposed several ways to reduce sample sizes such as through double sampling plans (Binns and Nyrop, 1992), sequential sampling (Kuno, 1969;Binns and Nyrop, 1992;Arnaldo and Torres, 2005;Greco and Wright, 2013;Silva et al, [page 34] [Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research 2021; 53:9448] 2014; Pérez et al, 2015), variable intensity sampling (Hoy, 1991), binomial presence-absence sampling (Binns and Nyrop, 1992;Hamilton et al, 2006), binomial sequential sampling (Smith and Shepard, 2004;Butler and Trumble, 2012), or first-event sampling plans (Berchtold and Freuler, 1988). The accuracy as well as the time effort of either fixed sample-size plans (Hamilton et al, 2006) or sequential sampling plans (Binns and Nyrop, 1992;Arnaldo and Torres, 2005;Silva et al, 2014;Pérez et al, 2015) can be simulated through testing varying sample numbers, infestation levels, or thresholds (Binns and Nyrop, 1992;Arnaldo and Torres, 2005;Silva et al, 2014;Pérez et al, 2015) and subsequently evaluating the operating characteristic of the simulated models (Binns and Nyrop, 1992;Arnaldo and Torres, 2005;Hamilton et al, 2006;Silva AS et al, 2014) .…”