Photo of 3 PhD students standing beside a poster about the project on assessing "Mosquito-borne disease risk to Northern Ireland under environmental change" , led by Ross Cuthbert at Queen's University Belfast, in whose team they are working. Left to right Lucy Devlin, Ryan Carmichael and Aidan Desjardins

Photo of PhD student Meshach Lee standing beside his poster "Assessing mosquito-borne disease risk across an urban-rural gradient in Scotland"

Picture of screen in lecture hall displaying the title slide of a presentation delivered by Dr Dom Brass, UKCEH. The slide has the title "Forecasting the risk of WNV in Europe now and in the future"

Great 1st day at the @ukvbd.bsky.social conferenced in Liverpool, with several #MosquitoScotland team members presenting findings from their work

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@meshachlee.bsky.social Georgia Kirby Ryan Carmichael Lucy Devlin Aidan Desjardins Dom Brass Ross Cuthbert

Photo of shallow river/marsh (a few meters across) surround by tall grass (knee height), with taller trees on the horizon. In front right, you can see Queens University Belfast PhD student Ryan Carmichael (side profie, from waist up) and University of Glasgow Researcher Dr Georgia Kirby (back) looking at the water to check for larvae. Both are dressed for field work; Ryan is holding a notebook and has a backpack. There is a blue sky with light cloud, weather is very sunny.

Fantastic weather in Belfast this week as Dr Georgia Kirby from #MosquitoScotland visits our collaborator and #QueensUniversityBelfast PhD student Ryan Carmichael to kick off collaboration on mosquitoes.

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New paper from the Dr Georgia Kirby of #MosquitoScotland team

Photo shows Dr Georgia Kirby (from waist up) standing outside near a tree, hanging a Biogents mosquito trap from a tree branch. The Biogents mosquito trap looks like an inverted funnel, with the wider part at the bottom, and a narrow end at the top. The top is black plastic ring with an opening. There is a source of carbon dioxide in the trap that draws mosquitoes into the opening. They then get trapped in the funnel, which is made of netting material supported by a wire frame. Georgia is wearing a black tshirt, has shoulder length dark hair and is wearing glasses.

New paper from #MosquitoScotland project led by Dr Georgia Kirby @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social - a review of Ecological risk factors for the establishment of West Nile virus in Britain. Article reviews the ecology of British mosquitoes to assess risk of WNV establishment.

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Meshach Lee, a second year PhD student from the School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Glasgow, stands in front of his poster at the European Society for Vector Ecology conference in Montpelier, Nov 2024. The title of his poster is 'Field evaluation of 4 commercially available mosquito traps for collecting mosquitoes in Scotland"

New blog by @meshachlee.bsky.social from @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social, describing experience at his first international conference, the European Society for Vector Ecology meeting in Montpellier @4sove.bsky.social. Great ad for #ESOVE meetings #MosquitoScotland

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