Kworld Trend / Mosquito alert app download, Today, we catch up with AIM’s Chair, Alessandra della Torre, a scientist on the front line of mosquito research and control. She stopped by to talk about her latest achievements, as well as her experience in chairing this COST Action.
Mosquito alert app download
Join the world’s largest mosquito surveillance network. Contribute to the study and monitoring of invasive mosquitoes and mosquitoes of epidemiological interest with the Mosquito Alert app. However, With it you will be able to report mosquito observations, mosquito breeding sites, and keep a record of mosquito bites.
By sharing your observations, you will be providing information that scientists can use in their research to better understand the ecology of mosquitoes, disease transmission, and provide data to improve their management.
However, Mosquito Alert is a citizen science project coordinated by several public research centers, CEAB-CSIC, UPF and CREAF, whose objective is to study, monitor and fight against the spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes.
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To download Mosquito alert app for iPhone Click here
What can you do with the app?
-Notify the presence of five species of mosquitoes:
- The tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus)
- The yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti)
- The Asian bush mosquito (Aedes japonicus)
- Aedes koreicus
- The common house mosquito (Culex pipiens)
A community of more than 50 international expert entomologists. Which will validate the photos you send to the platform, thus being able to learn to identify the mosquito species of health interest. However, All observations are made public on the Mosquito Alert map website. Where they can be viewed and downloaded, as well as exploring the models developed from the contributions of the participants.
- Identify their breeding places in your area
- Notify when you receive a bite
- Validate the photos of other participants
Your contributions are very useful for science!
Moreover, The Mosquito Alert app is available in more than 17 European languages: Spanish, Catalan, English, Albanian, German, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Turkish .
Tell us more about this Mosquito Alert app to which your Action contributed?
The Mosquito Alert app is a Citizen Science project launched in Spain in 2014. To trace the invasion and spread of the tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, throughout the country. Photographic records of mosquitoes were sent to expert entomologists who identified the species. Compiled a database, and mapped the spread. Later, the app was updated to focus on five species, including all Aedes invasive species. And to include the possibility of sharing records of mosquito bites.
However, AIM had a pivotal role in raising the project to a pan-European level. People all over Europe volunteered with translation, and the app is now available in 19 different languages. Every country in Europe can now use it. Our Action worked on the translation, promotion, and support of this app.
Consequently, we are starting to see nice results, having now collected data from thousands of citizens who have sent in over 70,000 records!
