🦟 Mosquito Pulse
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Building the swarm board, the monsoon pulse, and the maps.
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NEON Mosquito Pulse unofficial

When the rains come, the mosquitoes follow. Every mosquito NEON catches in its CO2 traps, how busy and how widespread, which genera, the female-skewed catch, and how the seasonal pulse rides the summer monsoon across a continent of climates. Built on CO2-trap collections (DP1.10043.001).

Tap a site on the map (sized by mosquito richness, coloured by biome) to explore it, or pick one by name in the panel below the map. 46 sites from desert washes to arctic tundra.

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Browse all 46 sites as a list
Counts are an activity index (mosquitoes per trap-night), not a population. CO2 traps lure host-seeking females, so a big night means high activity, not a high headcount.
Most-active species
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The story so far
Who's in the trap: genus and sex
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Culex includes the main West Nile virus carrier in the western US. This app shows where and when they are active. It is a heads-up, not an infection or risk measure, which NEON tracks with a separate program.

The monsoon pulse

Mosquito activity by week of the year, averaged across years, with the site's summer-rain window shaded behind it. In the desert the pulse rides the monsoon.

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Activity index by week, against the rains
Species accumulation (by trap-night)
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How many species really? (Chao2)

Every species on one board

Each dot is a species, how widespread × how busy. Culex (West Nile group) is flagged. Tap to pin a card.

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Ubiquity × activity index, by species
interactive · tap a dot to pin its card
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One protocol, 46 sites, a continent of climates

Each dot is a NEON site, placed by its warm-season climate against its mosquito community. Deserts read against monsoon rain, cooler sites against degree-days. Tap a dot to pin its card or jump to that site.

All 46 NEON sites, not just this one
Mosquito community across the climate gradient
Cross-site table (CSV) interactive · tap a site to pin its card
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Search the whole network

Look across every bundled NEON site at once. Find a mosquito species and see where it has been caught, or pull the sites that pass a threshold you set. Everything runs on the bundled data, so it is instant, and you can jump straight to any site.

All 46 NEON sites, not just this one
Find a mosquito species
Find sites by threshold

Mosquito traps across the site

Each marker is a NEON CO2-trap grid, sized by richness and coloured by your chosen metric. Tap a grid for the full list of mosquitoes caught there.

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