Citizen Science in Calgary!

The Soghigian Lab, working with collaborators with the City of Calgary, has launched a new citizen science campaign. Following on our success with Bite Back 2024, where citizens helped us establish that Culex pipiens, the northern house mosquito, was using Albertans houses to overwinter (and likely other manmade structures, too), we have launched the Skeeter Seekers program.

We're asking Calgarians to help us capture mosquitoes! To participate, it's simple: Go to Inglewood Bird Sanctuary, or Ralph Klein Park, and look for one of our citizen science displays, like below:

Then, grab a mosquito sampling kit and smack any mosquito that tries to land on you. Put it in the collection tube, fill out a bit of info for us, and return it to the cooler! Looking for more information? Head on over to the page on our website about the citizen science initiative.

We've already had approximately 50 participants in this project - and mosquito season is just getting started!