Online Crowdsourced Data from iNaturalist Can Assist Monitoring of Invasive Mosquitoes.

ABSTRACT: Invasive mosquitoes continue to spread, increasing the threat of mosquito-borne disease. Ongoing mosquito surveillance is necessary to track the introduction and establishment of these species in new areas and implement appropriate public health and vector control measures. Contributions from citizen science initiatives have been an important component in detecting, controlling, and raising awareness of invasive mosquitoes. The open-access biodiversity platform iNaturalist is an extensive source of human observations of wildlife, including arthropod vectors, and can be a useful supplementary tool for passive vector surveillance. In this study, the utility of iNaturalist data to support invasive mosquito surveillance was assessed by examining the distribution and seasonal data on four invas

SUBMITTER: Cull B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11855696 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature