0202412120446
Mozzie Monitors Description: Mozzie Monitors aims to increase public awareness and conduct mosquito surveillance in Australia, particularly in urban areas
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0202412120446
Dates
State ongoing
Start 2018-10-19
Form updated 2024-12-12
Report authors
Location
Australia
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Aims
Increase public awareness
Conduct mosquito survelliance
Keywords
mosquito
insect
monitoring
education
Category
management/monitoring
Inputs
group of individuals
University of South Australia (A/Prof Craig Williams, Stephen Fricker, Larissa Braz Sousa, Seamus Doherty, Mathieu Bazin, A/Prof Katherine Baldock, A/Prof Cameron Webb (University of Sydney)) (link)
Task: A/Prof Craig Williams: concept and original project design, Stephen Fricker, technical officer UniSA: technical design, mosquito identification, testing, iNaturalist work, public advocacy Larissa Braz Sousa, PhD student at UniSA: analysis, design, trial execution, promotion public advocacy Seamus Doherty, former Honours student, UniSA: technical design and testing Mathieu Bazin, former summer scholarship student at UniSA: initial trap testing A/Prof Katherine Baldock, UniSA: student supervision, public health strategy A/Prof Cameron Webb, University of Sydney: project and concept design
Recruitment: Social media
Communication: Social media and email: mozziemonitors@unisa.edu.au
Compensation: volunteer
Impact: Citizen Science Mosquito Surveillance by Ad Hoc Observation Using the iNaturalist Platform - https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/10/6337/htm First record of the mosquito Aedes (Downsiomyia) shehzadae (Diptera: Culicidae) in Australia: A unique discovery aided by citizen science - https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-vector-ecology/volume-47/issue-1/1081-1710-47.1.133/First-record-of-the-mosquito-iAedes-i-iDownsiomyia-i-ishehzadae/10.52707/1081-1710-47.1.133.full This mosquito species from Papua New Guinea was lost for 90 years – until a photographer snapped a picture of it in Australia- https://theconversation.com/this-mosquito-species-from-papua-new-guinea-was-lost-for-90-years-until-a-photographer-snapped-a-picture-of-it-in-australia-184308