0202412120446

Mozzie Monitors Description: Mozzie Monitors aims to increase public awareness and conduct mosquito surveillance in Australia, particularly in urban areas. It includes and umbrella project in Australia, Brazil, Southern Africa, the UK and Ireland.
STARDIT ID: 0202412120446

Dates

State ongoing
Start 2018-10-19
Form updated 2024-12-12

Report authors

Julie Old (link)
0000-0002-2754-7757
main report author

Location

Australia

URL

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/mozzie-monitors-australia?tab=about

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Aims

Increase public awareness

Conduct mosquito survelliance

Keywords

mosquito

insect

monitoring

education

disease survelliance

mosquito trapping

mosquito identification

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)

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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
Enablers: lack of weekly reminders to empty their traps and need to collect and photograph the trapped mosquitoes, decreased participation over time
Compensation: volunteer
Impact: Developed "Mozzie Month"

funding

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Unknown

Outputs and impacts

dataset (open)

State: Ongoing

mosquito survelliance (link)

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Findability: iNaturalist
Accessibility: iNaturalist - map
Accessibility (URL): https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/mozzie-monitors-102b8667-15ee-4c57-9c1c-c6d0255be64b
Impact: potentially disease surveillance

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Mosquito surveillance observations using iNaturalist - https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/10/6337/htm

event

State: Completed

First record of the mosquito Aedes (Downsiomyia) shehzadae (Diptera: Culicidae) in Australia (link)

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Impact: biodiversity implications, potential disease implications?

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Found a new species of mosquito in Australia

event

State: Completed

Mosquito species from Papua New Guinea through lost for 90 years found in Australia (link)

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Impact: Species thought lost, found by citizen scientist and not extinct - biodiversity implications

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Found an "extinct" species of mosquito

publication/report/document

State: Completed
Stage: Published Sept 2024

Journal article (link)

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Impact: Participants learned how to identify the most common mosquito species, improved their technical skills in mosquito photography, started looking for mosquito eggs and larvae in their backyards to manage mosquito populations. Additionally, participants had increased confidence, self-efficacy, and engagement in the project. Mosquito data and educational outcomes supported improvements in public health

Can't find funding source, presume Uni of Adelaide