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Adult and larvae mosquito counts from 12 UK wetland sites in southern England, collected between March 2017 and October 2018

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

This dataset contains a mosquito species table with counts for adults and larvae. Samples are from twelve UK wetland sites, sampled between April 2017 and September 2018. A map included in the documentation included with this data shows site locations, which include both coastal and inland wetlands, and range from Devon to Kent and from Lincolnshire to Dorset. Samples were collected by staff from University of Greenwich and the UK Health Security Agency: collaborators in a NERC-funded project (NE/NO13379/1), part of the Valuing Nature Programme. We found a total of 19 mosquito species: • 10 Aedes • 3 Anopheles • 3 Culisseta • 2 Culex • 1 Coquillettidia Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/1b5a8827-4329-4c20-85f8-0979998b3c74

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
1b5a8827-4329-4c20-85f8-0979998b3c74
Extent (Latitude)
55.812° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-6.452° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2023-02-22
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Medlock, J.M., Hawkes, F.M., Cheke, R.A., Gibson, G.I., Abbot, A.J., Cull, B., Gandy, S., Acott, T.G., Vaux, A.G.C., Young, S. (2023). Adult and larvae mosquito counts from 12 UK wetland sites in southern England, collected between March 2017 and October 2018. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/1b5a8827-4329-4c20-85f8-0979998b3c74
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng