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Research Ideas and Outcomes :
Data Paper (Biosciences)
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Michael B Boehmler‡, David J DeMay‡, Adriane N Rogers§, Heidi L Murray|, Lawrence J Hribar||
Corresponding author: Michael B Boehmler (michaelbboehmler@gmail.com)
Academic editor: Editorial Secretary
Received: 04 Jan 2023 | Accepted: 18 Apr 2023 | Published: 24 Apr 2023
© 2023 Michael Boehmler, David DeMay, Adriane Rogers, Heidi Murray, Lawrence Hribar
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Boehmler MB, DeMay DJ, Rogers AN, Murray HL, Hribar LJ (2023) Dataset for mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) from Gun Club Road, Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida, USA. Research Ideas and Outcomes 9: e99607. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.9.e99607
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Abstract
Background
The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District utilises dry ice-baited light traps to monitor mosquito populations on Key Largo, Florida. This paper describes the methodology of trapping, habitat description and dataset of adult mosquito populations from 18 years of weekly monitoring from a single site on Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida, USA.
New information
This paper details a previously unreported dataset derived from trap collections made on Key Largo, Florida at a site designated as “Gun Club Road.”
Keywords
Diptera, Culicidae, Key Largo, mosquito abundance, Florida Keys
Introduction
The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District has conducted adult mosquito surveillance along Gun Club Road in Key Largo, Florida for 18 years. Collections were made by utilising dry ice-baited light traps. A single CDC trap was set for a 20 hour period on a weekly basis, excluding weeks when situations prevented collections, including storms, dry ice shortages and personnel scheduling conflicts. Traps were loaded with approximately 1-2 kilograms of dry ice, set in the afternoon and retrieved the following morning and positioned in the same area (within 20 feet - 6 metres) during the collection period. Trapping location varied only due to altered environmental conditions, such as downed trees. Mosquito collections were returned to the laboratory, euthanised by freezing and identified to species when possible. This paper reports data pertaining to 27 identified mosquito species, two specimen categories identified to genera and one category identified to Family Culicidae (unidentified mosquito).
General description
These data were collected to document the species composition and abundance of mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) on a single trapping site in Key Largo, Florida.
Sampling methods
Mosquito surveillance on Key Largo started in December of 2003 and continued through December 2021. Collections were made weekly unless storms, material shortages or scheduling conflicts interfered with trapping.
A single 6-volt battery-powered light trap (American Biophysics Company, Clarke, John Hocke) was baited with approximately 1-2 kilograms of dry ice and hung in the same vicinity once a week for 18 years. Traps were set from afternoon until the following morning when the trap bag was collected (approximately 20 h), brought to the lab and the collected species were euthanised by freezing. All mosquitoes were identified to species and sex when possible and totalled using available identification guides including
The site is a high tidal transition zone, becoming inundated only during the highest tidal events of the year or under extreme weather events. Buttonwood (Conocarpus erecta L.) trees dominate the immediate trapping location with stands of Black mangroves (Avicennia germinans L.) located nearby (
Geographic coverage
The dry ice-baited light traps were deployed on the east end of Gun Club Road in Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida, USA. The coordinates of the trap location are: 25.103952 N, -80.425889 W.
Taxonomic coverage
Twenty-seven unique mosquito species were documented during the sampling period.
Temporal coverage
Data Collection began on 2 December 2003 and continued through to 16 December 2021.
Usage licence
Data resources
Suppl. material
| Column label | Column description |
|---|---|
| Site | Site name |
| Island | Island name |
| Latitude | North coordinates |
| Longitude | West coordinates |
| Trap Type | trap type |
| Year | collection year |
| Week of Year | Collection week of year |
| Date of Retrieval | collection date |
| Day of Year | day of the year collected |
| mosquito totals | mosquito totals |
Additional information
The size of the dataset is 169.44 kb. The File format is CSV. Data are available in Supplementary material 1.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank all the biologists, technicians and inspectors who assisted with trapping, identification and data recording.
References
- Identification and Geographical Distribution of the Mosquitoes of North America, North of Mexico.2.University of Florida Press,416pp. [ISBN0 8130 2784 5]
- Keys to the adult females and fourth instar larvae of the mosquitoes of Florida (Diptera, Culicidae).Technical Bulletin of the Florida Mosquito Control Association1:1‑156.
- Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) collections in the Florida Keys, Monroe County, Florida, USA.Studia Dipterologica9:679‑691.
Supplementary material
Species occurrence at one mosquito trap location named "Gun Club Road" in Key Largo, FL.