Ecodevelopment currently has the largest field data collection infrastructure: mosquito larvae and adult mosquitoes, West Nile Virus pathogen circulation, field observations and recently also large volume data from environmental IoTs.
We conduct around 300,000 field inspections with the assistance of 120 technicians, who electronically record around 15 million field measurements in real time on our entomological and observational data collection platform ebite©.
This year, for the first time, we are launching the periodic publication of indices on our website for the following five regions of the country: Central Macedonia, Western Greece, Thessaly, Crete and Western Macedonia. The indices relate to the abundance of the three main mosquito genera (Culex, Aedes, Anopheles) at adult level from a total of 220 trap sites and the presence/absence of larvae from a network of more than 40,000 potential mosquito breeding sites in the peri-urban system of 2500 settlements.
These indicators are derived from real-time updates of the database and are systematically produced on a weekly basis. By the end of June, the possibility of communicating them to all active users of the ebite platform will be activated. They will be available to the general public each year via the Ecodevelopment website at the beginning of June (for the April-May comparative results) and the beginning of October (for the whole mosquito period) of each year.
Right now, it is worth focusing our attention on the flooding and particularly nuisant at sunset species Aedes caspius (see below for Aedes larvae and adult indices in five regions):
% Positivity of breeding sites to Aedes larvae
Average captures of Aedes adults
