GLOBE News
Your Help Finding Mosquito Breeding Sites in Old Tires is Needed! Join the GLOBE Mission Mosquito “Spare Tire Blitz” (March-June 2022)
Inez Mauad, citizen scientist and educator, from GLOBE Brazil, documented a tire breeding site and eliminated it from use.
Spare Tire Blitz
Join the GLOBE Mission Mosquito “Spare Tire Blitz,” which began in March and is running through June 2022. Participants will document mosquito tire habitat by submitting a photo using The GLOBE Program’s app, GLOBE Observer (GO), Mosquito Habitat Mapper (MHM) tool, and will follow up with the GO Land Cover tool to provide photos of tire location.
In a recent blog, Dr. Russanne Low (Science Lead for the GO MHM and senior scientist with the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Arlington, Virginia, USA) discussed the Spare Tire Blitz, “During the blitz, scientists are asking for your Mosquito Habitat Mapper observations. With this information, scientists will be able to document where female mosquitoes are using spare or discarded tires as breeding sites.”
“To give a sense of the scope of this world-wide problem, scrap tire stockpiles in the U.S. total to over 56 million tires. With so many tires discarded on the landscape, female mosquitoes can continue to use these as breeding sanctuaries.”
To read the full blog, and find out more about the blitz, click here.
To learn more about GMM, click here.
News origin: GLOBE Implementation Office