Corresponding author: Heidi L. Murray (
Academic editor: Editorial Secretary
The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) is an independent taxing district in Monroe County, Florida. The mission of FKMCD is to protect the community and visitors of the Florida Keys from mosquito-borne disease and prevent nuisance mosquitoes from impacting the quality of life of its citizens and the local economy. The State of Florida requires mosquito control programmes to provide recorded evidence of mosquito activity prior to pesticide application. Surveillance is an appropriate method to record the abundance and mosquito species present in an area to determine if adulticide applications are necessary. Mosquito surveillance traps have been set by FKMCD since 1998. Trapping is conducted throughout the District to document species composition and abundance. Mosquito surveillance is used for operational decisions for both nuisance mosquitoes and disease vectors.
This dataset includes previously unreported mosquito trapping results in Monroe County, Florida. This dataset includes trap results collected from CDC light traps and BG Sentinel traps set weekly on Vaca Key, Flamingo Island, Key Colony Beach, Fat Deer Key, Crawl Key, Long Point Key, Grassy Key, Long Key and Lower Matecumbe Key from 1 January 2018 through to 31 December 2021.
Chapter 388 of the Florida Statutes requires mosquito control agencies to follow specific criteria before applying pesticides (
These data were collected to document the species composition and abundance of mosquitoes for weekly control decisions made by FKMCD between Vaca Key and Lower Matecumbe Key, Florida.
This dataset provides weekly trapping results from 1 January 2018 through to 31 December 2021 for the islands of Vaca Key, Flamingo Island, Key Colony Beach, Fat Deer Key, Crawl Key, Long Point Key, Grassy Key, Long Key and Lower Matecumbe Key in Monroe County, Florida.
Traps were set in the afternoon and retrieved the following morning for approximately 18-20 hours of running time. Traps were set weekly with a few exceptions due to weather or illness. The mosquito traps used during this time period were CDC miniature light traps model 512 (John W. Hock Company, Gainesville, FL) and BG Sentinel 2 traps (Biogents, Regensberg, Germany). Both the CDC light traps and BG Sentinel traps were baited with approximately 1.36 kg of dry ice in a 2 litre insulated cooler. The BG traps were also deployed with BG-Lure (Biogents, Regensberg, Germany) as an additional attractant specifically for
Traps were set between Vaca Key (
A total of 30 mosquito species were identified to species level from trap collections.
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species | Yellow fever mosquito | |
species | Asian tiger mosquito | |
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species | Saltmarsh mosquito | |
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species | Black saltmarsh mosquito | |
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species | Eastern treehole mosquito | |
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species | Common malaria mosquito | |
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species | Southern house mosquito | |
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species | Crabhole mosquito | |
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species | Dark rice-field mosquito | |
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Data collected for this dataset range from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2021.
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Microsoft Excel Comma Separated Values File
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Marathon Area Trap Data 2018-2021
CSV
Column label | Column description |
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Location ID | Trap location name. |
Island | Island that trap was set on. |
Collection site type | Description of trap site location land use type. |
Latitude | North coordinates of trap location in decimal degrees. |
Longitude | West coordinates of trap location in decimal degrees. |
Trap type | Type of trap set. |
Attractant | Attractant/lure set with trap. |
Start Date | Date trap was set, format type DD/MM/YYYY. |
End Date | Date trap was retrieved, format type DD/MM/YYYY. |
NOTES | Details explaining that trap collection did not go as expected; data are invalid. |
M | male specimen count. |
F | female specimen count. |
Total | sum of both male and female specimens counted. |
The size of the dataset is 898.96 Kb. The file format is CSV. Data are available under Suppl. material
I want to thank all surveillance technicians and field inspectors at FKMCD who assisted with data collection. I thank Lawrence J. Hribar and Catherine A. Pruszynski for assistance with mosquito sorting and identification of trap collections in this dataset from 2018-2021.
Marathon Area Trap Data 2018-2021
count data in a Microsoft Excel Comma Separated Values File
Florida Keys Mosquito Control District surveillance data from adult trap collections between Vaca Key and Lower Matecumbe Key, Monroe County, FL from 1 January 2018 through to 31 December 2021.
File: oo_779871.csv