Description
Material provided: Personalized training for end-users
Unit definition: 1 week of training
Provider country: Switzerland
Short description: Personalized Training with access to field sites and laboratory facilities to evaluate suitable trapping and surveillance methodologies in urban and peri-urban sites with exotic invasive species of mosquito (Aedes albopictus, Ae. japonicus, and Ae. koreicus).
The field sites are located in Southern Switzerland (canton Ticino).
Specific service description:
Technical assistance on surveillance of mosquitoes in urban environment
Services offered:
- Field site access with technical assistance and/or practical training for research on the surveillance of invasive mosquitoes.
- Identification and characterisation of suitable sites for the presence of adult and larval stages.
- Larval collection.
- Setting up traps (BG sentinel, ovitraps, GAT)
- Collection and storage of individuals captured.
- Identification of adults, larval, and egg stages using morphological and molecular (MALDI-TOF MS, PCR) tools
- Data interpretation and discussion.
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