Aedes albopictus bionomics data collection by citizen participation on Procida Island, a promising Mediterranean site for the assessment of innovative and community-based integrated pest management methods.

• Main Authors: Beniamino Caputo (Author), Giuliano Langella (Author), Valeria Petrella (Author), Chiara Virgillito (Author), Mattia Manica (Author), Federico Filipponi (Author), Marianna Varone (Author), Pasquale Primo (Author), Arianna Puggioli (Author), Romeo Bellini (Author), Costantino D'Antonio (Author), Luca Iesu (Author), Liliana Tullo (Author), Ciro Rizzo (Author), Annalisa Longobardi (Author), Germano Sollazzo (Author), Maryanna Martina Perrotta (Author), Miriana Fabozzi (Author), Fabiana Palmieri (Author), Giuseppe Saccone (Author), Roberto Rosà (Author), Alessandra Della Torre (Author), Marco Salvemini (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

In the last decades, the colonization of Mediterranean Europe and of other temperate regions by Aedes albopictus created an unprecedented nuisance problem in highly infested areas and new public health threats due to the vector competence of the species. The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) and the In...