Medical Entomology

Mosquito and Mosquito-Borne Disease Surveillance 2008

Every year, the ISU Medical Entomology Research Laboratory, in a cooperative project with the Iowa Department of Public Health and the University Hygienic Lab (Iowa City, IA), monitors mosquito populations and mosquito-borne disease in the state of Iowa. In 2008, we responded to concerns that mosquito populations will explode with the extensive rainfall and flooding that has taken place in May and June. Indeed we did have many mosquitoes immediately following heavy precipitation and flooding events, but numbers dropped off and were fairly low for the rest of the season.