Jamie Medina Soto - Post 2

 Hello again, everyone!

It's been a while since I last updated. There hasn't been anything too exciting; we continue our regular routine of trap setting, collection, and mosquito identification.

To prevent more individuals from messing with our traps, we have decided to add laminated cards and stickers to inform the public that our traps are used by the Department of Environmental Health. Unfortunately, our traps are still being messed with occasionally, especially on the East Side.

On a more positive note, we have successfully started uploading our mosquito abundance data to VectorSurv, which will help inform the public about mosquitoes in our region. We hope to upload our WNV results from our mosquito pools to the VectorSurv database by next week.

Finally, I thought I would share this photo I took of one of the plates I was examining for mosquito identification. This was from one of our Gravid traps, and as you can see, what I was looking at is what I like to call a mosquito limb graveyard.

It's been a while since I last updated. There has not been anything too exciting; we continue our regular routine of trap setting, collection, and mosquito identification.

In an effort to prevent more individuals from messing with our traps, we have decided to add laminated cards and stickers to inform the public that our traps are being used by the Department of Environmental Health. Unfortunately, our traps are still being messed with occasionally, especially on the East Side. 

On a more positive note, we have started successfully uploading our mosquito abundance data onto VectorSurv, which will help inform the public of the mosquitoes within our region. We hope to soon be able to upload our WNV results from our mosquito pools onto the VectorSurv database by next week.

Finally, I thought I would share this photo I took from one of the plates I was looking at for mosquito identification. This was from one of our Gravid traps, and as you can see, what I was looking at is what I like to consider a mosquito limb graveyard.

Anyways, thanks for reading! have a great weekend.