Many thanks for participating in the 2006 Labor Day Mosquito Count! We appreciate your patience as we report back to you, and thank you for all your efforts of last fall. If these results come too late for you to use them, we hope you will be able to use them next fall. We really need your participation again next year, as it is important for us to have repeated samples from the same areas over several years, and we have recently worked out the technical details that allow us to identify eggs of all the major container-breeding species. We have added new curriculum content, produced by students in a course at Clark University, Ecology of Disease Vectors, which we hope will be useful to you as you discuss these results with your students (or, as you prepare them for next year's sampling).
With this summary, we provide:
- Highlights for 2007
- Background on Mean Density and Mean Crowding
- Summary statistics
- Raw data
- Maps of sampling sites and graphic results summaries, with locations for invasive species
If any of you have any questions or requests, please let us know by email
We continue our efforts to expand our sampling network. If you have colleagues who might be interested, please let them know about this project and encourage them to contact me.
Thanks again! We'll be in touch as the next mosquito count approaches, and we wish you a pleasant summer until then.
Best regards,
Todd Livdahl