Mosquito surveillance programs provide mosquito control and public health agencies valuable information sets used to inform abatement activities and implement timely public health awareness campaigns. Integrating surveillance data across county or state lines can help to elucidate large-scale patterns of mosquito abundance and diversity across a continuous geographic area. Compiling data from individual programs that utilize different surveillance methodologies (trap type and attractants) can be challenging, and limits our ability to comment on mosquito and arbovirus risk across larger regions. In the current work, we assessed mosquito abundance and diversity from surveillance data collected from adjacent mosquito control programs utilizing different methodologies in northeastern Florida. Female mosquitoes were collected by suction light traps in Duval County (baited with dry ice) and St. Johns County (baited with octenol) in 2017 and 2018, and from BG-Sentinel traps, chicken coop exit traps, gravid traps, and suction light traps (baited with dry ice) from Volusia County from 2015 to 2018. We quantified and assessed mosquito community composition and abundance, and identified trap bias using partial redundancy analysis. The ability to compare surveillance data from adjacent programs can promote interregional data sharing, resulting in improved vector surveillance and management programs across broader geographic regions.
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