HumBug has developed a novel mosquito survey system to detect and identify different species of mosquitoes by their flight tone using budget smartphones. The project has recently received funding by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation allowing us to further advance this innovative system in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Our colleagues at Kinshasa School of Public Health and University of Bandundu in DRC are running a trial to establish how well local communities can set up and run the HumBug System. More info on the "News' section!
We are very pleased to announce that our new paper 'HumBugDB: A Large-scale Acoustic Mosquito Dataset' has been accepted at the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2021. Congratulations to Dr Kiskin and the team!
Comparison of HumBug Net with other survey methods
We are running a community trial comparing the performance of HumBug System to traditional mosquito sampling methods such as CDC-LTs and Human baited nets. We are also gathering feedback from the community as to how easy it is to run the HumBug System.
Our Social Science team conducted community meetings in four villages of Kilombero valley. Dr Dam, Mrs Mponzi and Mrs Mwandyala met the community leaders and held focus group discussions to introduce the project to the participants.
Over 6900 mosquito flight tones have been recorded!
We have recorded over 6900 mosquito flight tones from 23 mosquito species and our database continues to grow. Our colleagues in DRC and Tanzania have been working very hard to achieve this objective.
