Upper Waiākea Forest Reserve, Island of Hawai'i, Trap Efficacy and Mark-Release-Recapture Trial of Culex quinquefasciatus, 2020-2024

This USGS data release consists of five data sets and accompanying metadata for an experimental mark-release-recapture (MMR) study of adult Culex quinquefasciatus conducted in a montane rainforest in Upper Waiākea Forest Reserve on the Island of Hawai'i from October-December 2020 and laboratory survivorship studies and analysis from 2021- 2024. Culex quinquefasciatus is the vector of the avian malaria Plasmodium relictum a key limiting factor of endemic Hawaiian forest birds. The main components of the study include 1) capture counts of wild and marked, laboratory reared-mosquitoes with three different trap types, 2) fluorescence microscopy screening of captured mosquitoes, 3) survivorship of marked mosquitoes in the laboratory, 4) environmental data (temperature, humidity, and precipitation during recapture period (2020) and laboratory temperature data (2020-2021, 2024) and 5) geographical coordinates of all traps. The study was conducted by the US Geological Survey, Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center in collaboration with Hawai'i Cooperative Study Unit University of Hawai'i at Hilo.