Monitoring programs are typically labor-intensive and expensive, requiring teams to set and check traps, alongside specialists who can identify, sort, and test the samples. While some traps attract female mosquitoes with “stinky water” loaded with decaying organic material, others require dry ice to release carbon dioxide that mosquitoes sniff out when hunting for mammals. But in rural parts of New York, dry ice can be hard to come by—the team had to make their own.
Even beyond the logistical and resource challenges, communication, coordination, and data sharing for mosquito monitoring can be a challenge.
“One of the problems with states that are not comprehensively doing these surveillance programs is
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