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Mosquito Attraction Research
Country:United States of America
Student(s):Dominic Lampo, Eitan Benzaquen, Andrew Quintana, Karim Elyouseff, Ethan Arroyo
Grade Level:Secondary School (grades 9-12, ages 14-18)
GLOBE Teacher:Cassie Soeffing
Contributors:Dr. Rusty Low, scientist, IGES
Peder Nelson, scientist, OSU
Dr. Erika Podest, scientist, NASA JPL
Dr. Becky Boger, scientist
Report Type(s):International Virtual Science Symposium Report, Mission Mosquito Report
Protocols:Land Cover Classification, Mosquitoes
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Language(s):English
Date Submitted:02/25/2022
Mosquitoes in recent years have increased greatly in numbers due to the rapidly changing
climate and rising temperatures. With this change comes suitable habitats for mosquitoes which
are the most efficient killers in all of the animal kingdom due to the number of deaths from
mosquito-borne diseases. If we were able to pinpoint the certain areas that mosquitoes are most
attracted to we could in theory slow or even prevent the spread of mosquitoes. In our project, the
research was conducted to find a correlation between the color and size of the traps to the
amount of mosquitos that are present. With our findings, we were able to conclude that the
bigger the traps, the faster the mosquitoes would be attracted to that area. We also found that the
different size traps would hold similar densities of mosquito larvae per square inch.