Sources & Methodology
Jersey Mosquito combines official New Jersey mosquito resources, Rutgers entomology information, weather data and field-informed homeowner guidance.
Public-health claims come from public-health sources. Species claims come from entomology sources. The risk index is labeled as an estimate—not official surveillance.
NJ Department of Health — Vector-borne Surveillance
Weekly New Jersey vector-borne surveillance reports and official mosquito-borne disease data.
Open source ↗New Jersey DEP — Mosquitoes
Official overview of mosquito control in New Jersey, public programs and mosquito-borne illness resources.
Open source ↗NJDEP — County Mosquito Control Contacts
The current state directory for county mosquito-control programs.
Open source ↗Rutgers Center for Vector Biology — NJ Species
Rutgers list of mosquito species sampled in New Jersey.
Open source ↗Rutgers Cooperative Extension — Mosquito Biology & Control
University extension resources on mosquito biology, resident recommendations and control methods.
Open source ↗National Weather Service API
Weather data used as one input to the Jersey Mosquito Risk Index.
Open source ↗Daily discovery from a fixed New Jersey source whitelist.
The NJ Mosquito Newsroom checks state agencies, Rutgers and selected county mosquito-control pages once per day. It stores source URLs and fingerprints to prevent duplicates, creates an original Jersey Mosquito source brief instead of copying source articles, and routes sensitive human-health items to draft review.
Useful context, clearly labeled.
The risk score starts with a monthly New Jersey seasonal baseline and adjusts it using current National Weather Service temperature, humidity and precipitation-probability data near central New Jersey. It estimates general backyard mosquito pressure only. It does not ingest mosquito trap counts, pathogen testing or individual county surveillance, so it must not be interpreted as a disease-risk score.