A huge mahalo to all: 500+ observations with 465 that are RESEARCH GRADE

Hi all,

Since our last update we've gotten over 500 verifiable records! After a great deal of data curation (e.g. looking over all of your great records and making identifications, comments, suggestions and in a few cases for the sake of being conservative making an identification at a higher level than the species) we've ended up with 465 research grade identifications!

See here for the complete live updating list:

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations?captive=any&place_id=any&project_id=4357&quality_grade=research&subview=table&verifiable=any

With the following species breakdown:

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations?captive=any&place_id=any&project_id=4357&quality_grade=research&view=species

To document mosquitoes everyone has been busy especially student school projects: Iolani school project led by teacher @ychan and student @katherine_hui ran a large egg cup survey. Wiamea Middles School teacher @bensonreading and her students with a series of field trips to collect and rear out larvae. They were also helped by @waimeamiddleschool and @lynnbeittel who also generate lots of great records as well as on-line presence with ID and advice! Also note @waimeamiddleschool has also been providing long-term data from Kiawewai gulch finding shifting numbers of The yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti, waning numbers of the latter and increasing numbers of the Southern house mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus and then rebounding numbers of aegypti! Note also @vaneden on the other side of the island finding shifting numbers of Aedes aegypti versus the Asian tiger mosquito albopictus. Welcome to the new volunteer @kaidthenickl on the N. end of the Big Island. There are many more of you to thank and all listed here:

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations?captive=any&place_id=any&project_id=4357&subview=table&verifiable=any&view=observers

As we move forward with the project, we are starting to fill in the distribution picture on Hawai'i Island, Maui and Oahu. We still need more records from these islands as can be seen when you look over the map and seek the gaps and to facilitate this we could use more volunteers in new areas. But equally important, we need observations from some of the other islands including Lanai, Molokai, and especially Kauai so if you know folks there, encourage them to join the project and send them the link:

http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/mosquitoes-in-hawaii

Finally, you might have noted some growing pains as we involved students with the project either using the egg-cup method or the larval survey method. Although trap or collection tube photos are a great way to get the geolocation into the app or website, each record will ultimately need an identifiable organism, and we will want to follow up with good pictures of the eggs, larvae, pupae and especially adults. We also would really like the extre data fields filled out so we can get the duration of the sampling and the total numbers of each species sampled. Future posts will focus in detail on these methods for egg cup or larval surveys.

Mahalo nui loa for all your help!

Aloha,

@cydno (Durrell)

Posted on March 20, 2017 07:13 AM by cydno cydno

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