Week 2 Morgan W

 Heya, sorry this is a bit late I blanked on making a post last week so I'm doing it now. Most of what we did in the last week was trapping and IDing. 


For the trapping it mainly consisted of setting out and collecting both light and gravid traps. I did not set out traps this week that was handled by Ella and Jessie. However, I did collect traps alongside Autumn. 

There was also a lot of IDing to be done this week, which I am slowly but surely improving at. Primarily I handled gravid traps and found primarily mosquitos of the Aedes Vexans and Aedes Dorsalis species. My favorite to look at though is probably the Aedes Aegypti I love their patterning. No pictures this week but hopefully I'll have some for my next post. 

Not much else to report thus far it'll probably mostly be more trapping and IDing in the future, but it's pretty fun as long as you have other people to work with. Everyone has been great thus far and I very much so look forward to continuing our work. 

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  1. Hi Morgan, It's super cool that you're getting to do IDing your first week! IDing is easily the thing I'm most afraid of because it just seems so easy to miss-identify the mosquitos. I agree with you that Aedes have the best patterns of all the species. The white dots over the dark body are a fantastic natural polkadot.

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