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Up to now, mosquito abundance prediction problems were addressed with ad-hoc area-specific and genus-tailored approaches. We propose and develop MAMOTH, a generic and accurate Machine Learning model that predicts mosquito abundances for the upcoming period (the Mean Absolute Error of the predictions do not deviate more than 14%). The designed model relies on satellite Earth Observation and other in-situ geo-spatial data to tackle the problem. MAMOTH is not site- nor mosquito genus-dependent; thus, it can be easily replicated and applied to multiple cases without any special parametrization. The model was applied to different mosquito genus and species Culex spp. as potential vectors for West Nile Virus, Anopheles spp. for Malaria and Aedes albopictus for Zika\/Chikungunya\/Dengue) and in different areas of interest (Italy, Serbia, France, Germany). The results show that the model performs accurately and consistently for all case studies. 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