This report provides a brief statistical overview of where and when citizen scientists have been participating in Mosquito Alert. It is not intended to show estimates of mosquito populations or risk levels, only participation itself. (Thus, for example, the reporting figures shown here do not distinguish between validated reports and unvalidated reports.) The report is updated daily at approximately 3 am CET. Note that some of the figures are interactive: more information can be obtained from them by hovering the cursor over elements, zooming in and out etc.
One way of measuring participation is to look at the number of times people have “registered” with Mosquito Alert, defined as transmitting their consent to participate in the project. (Once a person installs the app, they must provide informed consent before they are able to use it, and this consent is transmitted to the Mosquito Alert server.) The number of registrations is not an exact measure of the number of participants, since some people may end up registering multiple times. This happens if they install the app, consent, then delete it and install and consent again. It also happened for all participants who upgraded to the new version of the app at the end of 2020, since their previous (anonymous) user UUIDs were not retained. To date there have been a total of 397107. The following charts show the time series of daily and cumulative registrations to date.
To date Mosquito Alert has received a total of 200444 reports from 68411 participants in 184 countries. Of these, 108909 (54.33%) are reports of adult mosquitoes, 21260 (10.61%) are reports of mosquito breeding sites, and 70275 (35.06%) are reports of mosquito bites. Mosquito Alert has received a total of 100256 reports containing photographs, representing 77.02% of the total adult and site reports combined (these are the report types to which photographs can be attached). Of these, 78169 are adult reports (71.77% of the total adult reports) and 20656 are site reports (97.16% of the total site reports). Of the 78169 adult reports with photos, 70489 (90.18%) have been validated through the Digital Entolab system to date.
The following chart shows the number of reports of each type by country, with bite reports in red, adult mosquito reports in yellow, and breeding site reports in blue. Only countries from which at least 50 reports in total have been sent are displayed.
Not displayed in this plot are 474 countries from which at least 1 but less than 50 reports have been received. These countries are as follows:
Afghanistan, Andorra, Angola, Antarctica, Armenia, Aruba, Bahrain, Belarus, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Chad, China, Cook Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Grenada, Guernsey, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, North Korea, Northern Cyprus, Norway, Oman, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Martin, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vatican, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Focusing just on the 10 countries from which the most reports have been sent to date, the following area plot shows the total number of reports over time, since the start of the project in 2014, sent from the 10 countries with the highest number of reports to date.