Mozzie Monitors

Mozzie Monitors is a citizen science program which combines mosquito monitoring with the community participation. Through this engagement, citizen scientists across Australia have been able to collect mosquitoes of medical importance in their backyards, as well as help improve our knowledge of mosquito fauna.

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Mozzie Monitors in Schools

Everybody can become a Mozzie Monitor and contribute to public health in their communities. Check out our video above which features the story of Mozzie Monitors, the aims of the program, the first outcomes and the next steps to upscale the program to different contexts. This short documentary film was selected to be part of the SCINEMA International Science Film Festival Community Screenings 2020. Watch our first video here or above.

Image at top: Aedes notoscriptus. (c) Dougal Townsend, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).