Potential for online crowdsourced biological recording data to complement surveillance for arthropod vectors
Fig 3
Summary of iNaturalist records of ticks in Minnesota, USA.
(A) Distribution of tick records by species. (B) Comparison of Ixodes scapularis distribution data from iNaturalist with the current known county-scale distribution in Minnesota (as of July 2019, map created based on data from Minnesota Department of Health Vectorborne Diseases Unit [60]). (C) Seasonality of Dermacentor variabilis and Ixodes scapularis recorded in Minnesota by iNaturalist users 2017–2020 (*data complete to 27 July 2020).