From: “Barry M. OConnor” <bmoc@umich.edu>
To: “Rafael de la Vega” <delavega@infomed.sld.cu>
Date: Mon, Mar 1, 1999 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: I need contact

At 5:56 PM -0500 2/26/1999, Rafael de la Vega wrote:
>Hello everybody: Does somebody knows the address of Jorge de la Cruz?. He is a great
> speciallist in ticks and mites. Some years ago he had work some place near the Great Lakes.
? He was worked in Orlando Florida in something relating to butterflies. Thanks in advance.
? Rafael.

The last address I had for him was:

Dr. Jorge de la Cruz
1425 Leeway Avenue
Orlando, Fl 32810-4520.  USA
phone: (407) 539-2995
e-mail: delacruz@grovescientific.com.

Barry M. OConnor                phone: (734) 763-4354
Museum of Zoology               FAX: (734) 763-4080
University of Michigan          e-mail: bmoc@umich.edu
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079  USA

Dear all,

For those of you who have not yet heard, we would like to inform you that Acarologia has moved to Montpellier, after 39 years at the Natural History Museum in Paris.
The new director is Michel Bertrand and the editors are:
-Michel Bertrand, Laboratoire de ZOOGEOGRAPHIE, Universite Montpellier III, route de Mende, 34199 Montpellier cedex 05 France (bertrand@bred.univ-montp3.fr)
-Mark Judson, Laboratoire de Zoologie-Arthropodes, Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, 61 rue de Buffon, Paris (judson@cimrs1.mnhn.fr)
-Serge Kreiter, Acarologie, ENSAM, 2 Place Paul Viala, 34060 Montpellier cedex01 France (kreiter@msdos.ensam.inra.fr)

General enquiries can still be sent to: acarolog@.mnhn.fr
Subscriptions are now handled by:
Service des publications, Universite Montpellier III, Route de Mende, 34199 Montpellier cedex 05 France (serpub@alor.univ-montp3.fr)
We are grateful to all of those who have helped the journal in the past and we will do our best to ensure that it is successful well into the future.
Best wishes,
La Redaction

Michel BERTRAND
ZOOGEOGRAPHIE
univ MONTPELLIER3
34199 MONTPELLIER CEDEX 5
FRANCE
(33 . 04 67 14 23 17)

---------------Mensaje original-----
De: Lic. Judith Mendiola
Enviado el: viernes 5 de marzo de 1999 15:11
Para: Buzón Internacional (ciipk)
Asunto: acarology@nhm.ac.uk

Dear Colleagues: Does anybody know the e-mail address of Dr. Patricia Nutall and Dr. Reuben Kaufman? They write an article about Adaptations of Arbovirus to Ticks where they mention the histolytic enzymes and reallocations of tissues in molting as a hostile environment for surviving viruses, and they refer to Balashov, 1972. We can not obtain the journal where Balashov published but we would like to read more about the presence of proteolytic enzymes in nymphs. We would greatly appreciate any aid in whatever sense. Thanking in advance, Lic. Judith Mendiola, e-mail:mendiola@ipk.sld.cu, Instituto Pedro Kouri, Apartado Postal 601, Marianao 13, Ciudad Habana, Cuba.
 

From:  Ana Margarita Espino <AMEspino@ipk.sld.cu>
To: "'acarology@nhm.ac.uk'" <acarology@nhm.ac.uk>
Date:  Tue, Mar 9, 1999  3:14 PM
Subject:  FW: Judith Mendiola

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From:  Ana Margarita Espino[SMTP:AMEspino@ipk.sld.cu]
Sent:  martes 9 de marzo de 1999 11:23
To: Subject:  Judith Mendiola

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-----Mensaje original-----
De:        Lic. Judith Mendiola
Enviado el:        viernes 5 de marzo de 1999 15:11
Para:        Buzón Internacional (ciipk)
Asunto:        acarology@nhm.ac.uk

Dear Colleagues: Does anybody know the e-mail address of Dr. Patricia Nutall and Dr. Reuben Kaufman? They write an article about Adaptations of Arbovirus to Ticks where they mention the histolytic enzymes and reallocations of tissues in molting as a hostile environment for surviving viruses, and they refer to Balashov, 1972. We can not obtain the journal where Balashov published but we would like to read more about the presence of proteolytic enzymes in nymphs. We would greatly appreciate any aid in whatever sense. Thanking in advance, Lic. Judith Mendiola, e-mail:mendiola@ipk.sld.cu, Instituto Pedro Kouri, Apartado Postal 601, Marianao 13, Ciudad Habana, Cuba.

Dear acarologists,

The process of editing the Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Acarology is well under way. The refereeing process took longer than we expected, but is now finished. Papers are now being returned to authors for revision, and should be with you in the very near future.

Thank you for your patience.
 

Bruce Halliday
 

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Dr. R. B. Halliday
CSIRO Division of Entomology
GPO Box 1700
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia

Email bruceh@ento.csiro.au

Telephone (02) 6246 4085   International 61-2-6246 4085
Fax (02) 6246 4000  International 61-2-6246 4000
http://www.ento.csiro.au/research/natres/natres.html
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****Please reply to  Gijs van Dam <gvandam@casema.net>****
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:18:11 +0100
From: Gijs van Dam <gvandam@casema.net>
To: acarology@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: ticks and oaks

hello,
I have a question. Is there any information about ticks that prefere the oak as site from which they can quest for a host. French farmers are convinced that ticks tackle there hosts from oaks and I questionned myself if this was the case, but I couldn’t find no effidence that pointed in that direction.
Could you help me out?
Gijs van Dam
vet. student
Utrecht, the Netherlands
faculty of veterinary medicine, Utrecht
 

Actually there is a theory in the Eastern US put forth by Ostfeld and collegues that goes something like this: Larval Ixode scapularis will be found at a higher frequency near oak trees after a year of very high acorn production.  This is thought to occur by virtue of the fact that deer love acorns, they feed on the acorns in the winter The fully engorged and mated female I scapularis falls off of their four legged hotel/restaraunt in the winter (usually) and lays her eggs here in the spring. As all ecological models and theories go, it is a bit more complicated than this. I have references if anyone is interested.
Jim Occi
jim_occi@merck.com

> From:  Z.Zhang@nhm.ac.uk
> Sent:  Wednesday, March 17, 1999 6:30 AM
> To:  acarology@nhm.ac.uk
> Subject:  ticks and oaks
>
> ****Please reply to  Gijs van Dam <gvandam@casema.net>****
>
> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:18:11 +0100
> From: Gijs van Dam <gvandam@casema.net>
> To: acarology@nhm.ac.uk
> Subject: ticks and oaks
>
> hello,
>
> I have a question. Is there any information about ticks that prefere the oak as site from which
> they can quest for a host.  French farmers are convinced that ticks tackle there hosts from oaks
> and I questionned myself if this was the case, but I couldn’t find no effidence that pointed in
? that direction Could you help me out?
?
> Gijs van Dam
> vet. student
> Utrecht, the Netherlands
> faculty of veterinary medicine, Utrecht
>
>
>
 

Dear all:

I work in oribatid mites, so the remaining groups are difficult to me. In particular mesostigmatic mites that seem so similar between them. But, recently I found an strange specimen that I can't to determine with my keys. My interest is to determine it to family level, at leat.Could somebody help me?
The exemplaire is probably a male and his main characters are:
- Sternal plate short (between Coxae II and IV), with a genital aperture in the medium, and    hypertrichous (more than fifty setae!)
- Corniculi strong and bifid
- Tritosternum base with two basal barbulated setae and two laciniae
- peritrematic plate normal
- deutosternum wide, the rows of denticles exceed the deutsternum and are continues to the lateral     walls of gnathosoma
- Femur II with a hypertrophied seta

Many thanks!
Pablo

* Pablo A. Martinez                                     *
* Laboratorio de Artropodos                             *
* Departamento de Biologia                       *
* Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales      *
* Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata         *
* Funes 3350                                      *
* (7600) Mar del Plata                           *
* Argentina                                       *
 

For some of you who asked how they could help, here’s something that might be helpful to get research and collection going again at BM.  This is long shot, but worth trying, to keep collection open and research reinstated.  Re emphasizing “Hawaii Biological Survey,” make sure to include the importance of knowing mites  as part of Hawaii ecosystems, especially with continuous degradation of the land and loss of habitats.
Aloha,
Sabina

Dr Sabina F Swift
1640-D O’o Lane
Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 USA
Phone:(808)521-7053
e-mail: seswift@lava.net

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:22:48 +0300
From: Scott Miller <smiller@ICIPE.ORG>
 Reply-To: Entomology Discussion List <ENTOMO-L@LISTSERV.UOGUELPH.CA>
To: ENTOMO-L@LISTSERV.UOGUELPH.CA
Subject: How  to Support Bishop Museum

In response to the requests I’ve had  from various people about how best to support the problems facing Bishop Museum, here is a concise summary from Allen Allison.  If you do write support letters, I would personally suggest emphasizing the value of the “Hawaii Biological Survey” and the need for the state government to support that vital systematics infrastructure.

>>You asked for a short statement on how the community could best support Bishop Museum.
>> Our problems are mainly problems involving our state appropriation.  In 1989, the first year
>> of the appropriation, we received $1.352 million.  By 1992 this had increased to $2.466
>> million. In 1995it had decreased to $2.077 million, by 1996 it decreased to $928,873, and by
>> 1998 it was down to $805,000.  This fiscal year (1999) it  was reduced by more than half  to >> $381,000.   In other  words, in less that a decade we’ve lost ~84% of our state funding.
>> That funding has mostly provided basic support for the care,  maintenance and access of
>> collections.  It has also provided a crucial match for obtaining research and  collections
>> support grants.  Our primary priority is to increase our state funding this year from the >>$381,000 proposed by the Governor to the $1.6 million we’ve formally requested. I might add
 >> that last year we faced  losing our state appropriation entirely I think that our letter writing
>> campaign at that time helped us avoid that fate. We are again asking our colleagues to write >>in support of increasing our state appropriation. Our basic message  is that although we are a
>> private institution, we are a crucial component of the state’s infrastructure in science, cultural
>> history and education.  Letters of support are best directed to me; I will forward to
>> government officials: Allen Allison, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice  Street, Honolulu,
>> Hawaii 96817. Fax 808-847-8252 and e-mail allison@hawaii.edu.
>>
>>Many thanks for your help.
>>
>>Cheers, Allen
Scott E. Miller, Leader, Biodiversity and Conservation Programme
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)
Box 30772, Nairobi, KENYA
Tel: +254-2-861680 [switchboard]   -861309 [direct]    Fax: +254-2-860110
Email: smiller@icipe.org—or—scottm@hawaii.edu

Africa: www.icipe.org/environment/biodiversity_index.html
New Guinea (UPDATED): www.bishopmuseum.org/bishop/natsci/ng/newguinea.html
 
 

Thank you to everybody in the list who sent me the Pat Nuttall and Reuben     Kauffman address. Sincerely yours, Lic. Judith Mendiola.
 

From:  Serge Kreiter <kreiter@ensam.inra.fr>
To: AGCAN.INTERNET("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")
Date:  Mon, Mar 15, 1999  3:21 PM
Subject:  5th International Conference on Pests in Agriculture

 
ANNOUNCEMENT

The Fifth International Conference on Pests in Agriculture (organised by Association Nationale de    Protection des Plantes ANPP), on :
  7, 8 & 9 December 1999

will be held Agricultural College in Montpellier (South of France)

for all those involved in Crop Protection
 

E-mail :  anpp@anpp.asso.fr
 leclant@ensam.inra.fr

Website : http://www.anpp.asso.fr

All informations and forms for paper and poster proposals will be found on the Website.
******************************************************************************
           Serge KREITER
             Campus ENSA-M / INRA
 Departement d'Ecologie et Protection des Plantes
  UFR d'Ecologie animale et de Zoologie agricole
             Unité d'Acarologie
     2, Place Pierre VIALA
   34060 MONTPELLIER cedex 01
       FRANCE
    Tél.: 00 33 4 99 61 22 68 23 89
    Fax : 00 33 4 67 52 15 54
  E-mail : kreiter@ensam.inra.fr
 
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****Please reply to grossmae@ccmail.orst.edu (Emilie Grossmann) *****
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:48:22 -0800
From: grossmae@ccmail.orst.edu (Emilie Grossmann)
Subject: Rearing nanorchestids?
To: acarology@nhm.ac.uk

Hello-
        Has anybody had any luck rearing nanorchestid mites? I am a graduate student at Oregon State University, working with some mites collected from a prescribed burn field study.  Some of the mites which are most interesting in their response to fire are nanorchestids.  They’re most abundant in the heavily burned soils where the litter layer was nearly all consumed.
        I would love to use them in the lab, but can’t seem to rear them, or to keep them alive in the lab.  If anyone on this listserver has had luck rearing them, and has any suggestions of techniques to try, I would really appreciate the advice.
        My email is: grossmanne@fsl.orst.edu
Thanks! -Emilie Grossmann
****Please reply to grossmae@ccmail.orst.edu (Emilie Grossmann) *****
 

On behalf of the Acarological Society of America (ASA), I have the following announcement on submission deadlines for the annual meetings.
The ASA will hold its Student Competition, Submitted Paper session, and Formal Conference/Symposium on Sunday December 12, 1999 during the first day of the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America (which runs through December 16).
If you wish to present a 10-minute submitted paper, including papers in the student competition, in our sessions, please note that the submission deadline is not July 1, 1999 (the deadline for other submitted papers at the ESA meetings).  Our session is classified as an Informal Conference with a submission deadline of April 19.  Second, you cannot submit directly, but have to go through the conference organizer, Hans Klompen. You can contact me by e-mail (klompen.1@osu.edu) or FAX (614 292 7774). Those wishing to enter the student competition should contact Ellen Dotson (e-mail: ebd6@cdc.gov).  In order to be included in the submitted paper/student competition session you need to send me name(s) and brief affiliation of the author(s), and a title.
We realize that this deadline is extremely early, and that potential contributors may not quite know details of their papers.  As long as we have names and a title before the deadline, we can update later.  Changes are much easier than additions, so if you are considering contributing, send us a message.
For further information on the ASA annual meeting program and other ongoing business matters visit the ASA web-site at http://www.wm.edu/biology/mites or consult the ASA newsletter.
Hans Klompen

Dr. Hans Klompen
Ohio State University                | Tel: (614) 292-7180
Museum of Biological Diversity       | FAX: (614) 292-7774
1315 Kinnear Rd.                     | E-mail: klompen.1@osu.edu
Columbus, OH 43212-1192
 

Dear colleagues: Dr de Lillo recently wrote to me to express the view that there is a lack of discussion on the Acarology list about grant supports or way to arrange people (acarologists and others) in group for research projects mites. I enclsoed his message below and encourage you all to participate in this discussion. I feel this topic is of great importance for the development of acarology in the future. Thank you for your attention, Zhi-Qiang Zhang

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:14:20 +0200
To: Z.Zhang@nhm.ac.uk
From: de Lillo Enrico <delillo@agr.uniba.it>
Subject: acarologists
 X-UIDL: d63773bd7efcd98df852b0d6efdd6654

Dear dr Zhang,
I have never seen letters or requests on the Acarology list about grant supports or way to arrange people (acarologists and others) in group for research projects.
To have financed a reserach on mites in Italy you have to work on insects and you have to include some aspects regarding acarology;  I suppose that it is more or less the same in other countries.
It means that we have very few possibilities to get grants to work on mites!
So, I would like to sollecitate a discussion on this topic to study the possible international and european financial sources for possible research group.
I hope this subject will not be off-topic and I hope to receive your thought about it.
Sincerely yours,
 

dr Enrico de Lillo
Istituto di Entomologia agrraia - Università Bari - Italy
tel. +39 080 5443105
fax +39 080 5442876
email: delillo@agr.uniba.it
 

Welcome to a new online journal Systematic & Applied Acarology Society (SAAS), which is dedicated to promoting the development of acarology and exchange of information among acarologists throughout the world, is delighted to announce that one of its research journals, Systematic & Applied Acarology Special Publications (SAASP, ISSN 1461-0183) is now made available online for FREE.
With the rapid growth of the internet, the dissemination of scientific information is greatly enhanced by the worldwide web.  Scientists wish their publications to reach intended readers and the general public with minimal costs to both themselves and Users. It is considered by many experts that the future of scientific publishing rests with Electronic Publishing by non-profit-making scientific societies.  With minimal page charges to authors, ACCESS can be made FREE to all on the internet.
SAAS endorses the view that any scientist who is linked to the internet should eventually be able to view and to download any articles in journals published by the society.
SAAS has already made free online viewing or printing of all issues of its newsletter, Acarology Bulletin, available at:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/saas/ab.html

Systematic and Applied Acarology Special Publications is the second Electronic Publishing project of the society and it is now made online for FREE, while SAAS will continue its printed versions for interested subscribers.
SAASP articles are mounted on the Internet as Portable Document Format (PDF) files, which can be viewed on your monitor at any magnification from 12 to 800%.  They can also be printed using Acrobat Reader (a program available free on the internet) to produce the equivalent of a reprint or photocopy.
SAASP is a rapid publication for research papers and monographic works on mites and ticks.  It is not restricted by any schedules of publication (e.g. quarterly, monthly) or by article length, and can be issued as soon as manuscripts are ready for publication.  Papers can normally be published in 4-10 weeks after acceptance (following peer-review).  A charge of 20 UK pounds or 35 US$ will be made to help to produce printed copies and to make electronic versions free on the internet.  Details about the journal can be found at:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/saas/saasp.html Potential authors should contact the editors:
Dr. Anne S. Baker
Department of Entomology
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
UK
E-mail A.Baker@nhm.ac.uk
 

Dr. Zhi-Qiang Zhang
c/o Department of Entomology
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
UK
E-mail Z.Zhang@nhm.ac.uk

SAAS home page: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/saas/
Join us in promoting the development of acarology!