From:  Zhi-Qiang Zhang Zhi-Qiang Zhang <ZhangZ@landcare.cri.nz>
To: Lincoln.smtp("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")
Date:  1 September 2000 10:19am
Subject:  FWD: Houck's e-mail re: host hormones and parasite behavior

****Please reply to marilyn.houck@ttu.edu

From marilyn.houck@ttu.edu Thu Aug 31 19:09:10 2000
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:08:53 -0500
From: "Dr. M.A. Houck" <marilyn.houck@TTU.EDU>
Subject: host hormones and parasite behavior

Hello,

I am interested in learning where anyone out there works on, or knows
examples of, hormonal communication between mites and their parasitic
or phoretic hosts.

Is anyone on the acarology list interested in the effect of  honeybee JH
on reproduction in Varroa?

I would appreciate communication on the topic.

Thanks you.

Marilyn Houck
Please note:
The State of Texas has required a compliance-change in my email
address.
The old address (MAHOUCK@ttu.edu) will be obsolete after August 01,
2001.

Dr. M. A. Houck
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
and Curator of Invertebrates, The Texas Tech Museum
Texas Tech University
http://www.biol.ttu.edu/faculty/facpages/houck/houck.html
http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/staff/houck.htm
Voice Mail: 806-742-2459
FAX: 806-742-2963
email: Marilyn.Houck@ttu.edu

CC: Lincoln.smtp("marilyn.houck@ttu.edu")

Dear collegues,
I look for references concerning fauna (including first descriptions of
new taxons) and ecology of oribatids in arid and semi-arid areas of
China (Inner Mongolia, Xinquian-Uigur Autonomous Region). Does exist any
check-list of species for this region? Also I would be happy to contact
with any person who explore oribatids in this region.

                                    thank you.
                                            Mr. Ilya Smelansky

Mr. Ilya Smelansky
P.O.Box 547
630090 Novosibirsk
Russia

Dear Acarologist

I am seeking for useful information about techniques of preparation of eriophyids mites.
I heard Italian acarologists reviewed the eriophyids preparation methods for SEM.
But, I can see only the source of the paper as following;
(Zuzzaci, G., E. de Lillo & R.G. Mariani. 1991. Scanning microscopy in acarology; a new technique of preparation of eriophyids preserved in different ways. Boll. Soc. Ital. Genova. 132(1) : 3-8. )

Could anyone give me a big favor about the technique to preparate eriophyids for SEM and the way to get the paper?

Thanks in advance,

Jong-Ho Lee

Acarologist
Div. Insect Research
National Plant Quarantine Service
433-1, Anyang 6-dong
Manan-gu, Anyang city
Kyonggi Prov. 430-016
R.O. Korea
tel. +82-31-441-6982
email : jhlee3@maf.go.kr

Galina Sergienko, oribatologist from UKRAINE died on September 5 of hard
attack on her 66... She was professional... and very good woman...

I plan to present list of her publication, terminated this year on:

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Gulf/9182/Acarology/Sergienko.html

Slava.

Dear Acarologists:

Does anyone know whether Tom Atyeo has a current email address (and whether
he responds to messages!)?

Thanks
Heather
 
 

____________________________________

Dr. Heather Proctor
Australian School of Environmental Studies
Griffith University
Nathan 4111 Queensland, Australia
phone: (07) 3875-3844
fax: (07) 3875-7459
email: H.Proctor@mailbox.gu.edu.au
____________________________________
 

Heather,

Check this address: Tom Atyeo's at  atyeo@uga.cc.uga.edu.
He answers snail mail but I'm not sure about e-mail.

Good luck.

Sabina
____________________________________
Sabina F. Swift
Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences
University of Hawaii at Manoa
3050 Maile Way, Gilmore 310
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822-2271
Phone: (808) 956-2445
Fax: (808) 956-2428
E-mail: sabina@hawaii.edu

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Heather Proctor wrote:

> Dear Acarologists:
>
> Does anyone know whether Tom Atyeo has a current email address (and whether
> he responds to messages!)?
>
> Thanks
> Heather
>
>
>
> ____________________________________
>
> Dr. Heather Proctor
> Australian School of Environmental Studies
> Griffith University
> Nathan 4111 Queensland, Australia
> phone: (07) 3875-3844
> fax: (07) 3875-7459
> email: H.Proctor@mailbox.gu.edu.au
> ____________________________________
>
>
>

CC: Lincoln.smtp("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")

Dear All:

Thanks to the many acarologists who sent me email addresses for Tom Atyeo.
The address that has elicited the most recent replies from Tom appears to
be atyeo@arches.uga.edu.

Cheers,
Heather

____________________________________

Dr. Heather Proctor
Australian School of Environmental Studies
Griffith University
Nathan 4111 Queensland, Australia
phone: (07) 3875-3844
fax: (07) 3875-7459
email: H.Proctor@mailbox.gu.edu.au
____________________________________
 

Dear kind acarologists!

Thank you for your kind and useful answer for SEM technique for eriophyid mites. I would like to share the information with other acarologist. The messages that I got are as the followings.

(Regretfully, I think I have to omit the sender name, because I got the messages through my email account not through "Acarology" list)

Anyway, I would like to give special thanks to all the acarologists who gave me information.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Dear Dr. Jong-Ho Lee,
    please write for reprint directly to Dr. G. Nuzzaci (not Zuzzaci), Instituto di Entomologia Agraria, Universita degli studi di Bari, Via Amendola 165, I-70 126 Bari, Italy, Phone 39-80-242 872, FAX 39-80-242 876.
     I can recommend you to attempt a very simple method with I successfully used for preparation of some pyroglyphid mites for SEM: Put mites directly to ethylether for several minutes or hours up to the ether penetrate into the mites. Then spill the ether with mites to filter paper and quickly dry by heating on the histological plate. The ethylether evaporate quickly and sweel the mites.
     I wish you many success.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Dear Dr. Lee
on the paper Nuzzaci, G., E. de Lillo & R.G. Mariani. 1991. Scanning
microscopy in acarology; a new technique of preparation of eriophyids
preserved in different ways. Boll. Soc. Ital. Genova. 132(1): 3-8 was
reported a method to observe dried specimens.

You can find more information on a specific chapter (authors: Alberti and
Nuzzaci) of the Eriophyoid Mites from the World Crop Series by Elsevier.

Let me know if you need more information.

My best wishes

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
I suggest you contact Antonella Di Palma (antonella.dipalma@agr.uniba.it)
or Enrico de Lillo (delillo@agr.uniba.it). They are the specialists in this
field

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
I read your request on SEMming Eriophyids at acarology listserv. The one
thing that I would like to mention is that the last name of the first
author is not Zuzzaci but Nuzzaci who did some nice works on mouthparts of
eriophyids.
Regarding the preparation of eriophyids for SEM, you can apply the idea of
critical point drying for the gall formers. For those guys, just put the
entire gall that has bunch of eriophyids in it into 100% acetone TWICE.
100% EtOH is also a very nice one for this process. The next step is drying
them under critical point dryer. Freeze drying does not give you a good
result. After the drying, carefully break the gall under stereo microscope
to mount onto the stub. It worked to me.
For the leaf vagrants, kill them at 100% EtOH or acetone, carefully tranfer
them onto the stub, and then coat them with gold.
For the small insects, some people use very highly toxic chemical, HMDS,
for drying process. I do not think that this is necessary for the mites.
Charging, of course, is another problem, but modern scopes can fix it.

.............................................................
 
 

Jong-Ho Lee
Acarologist
Div. Insect Research
National Plant Quarantine Service
433-1, Anyang-6dong, Manan-gu,
Anyang city, Kyonggi Prov.
430-016, R.O. Korea
tel. +82-31-441-6982
eamil : jhlee3@maf.go.kr

From:  Jurgen Otto <j.otto@aims.gov.au>
To: Lincoln.smtp("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")
Date:  15 September 2000 1:59pm

Dear acarologists,

I am trying to locate what is left of Hans Lohmann's halacarid material. A
small proportion of it is housed in the Zoological Museum in Hamburg (Viets
collection). But where is the rest ? Any information leading to the
discovery of further specimens would be greatly appreciated.

Jurgen
 
 
 
 
 

==============================================
Dr. Jurgen Otto
Research Scientist
Australian Institute of Marine Science
PMB 3, Townsville MC 4810
Australia
e-mail: j.otto@aims.gov.au

From:  "Bruce.Halliday" <bruceh@spider.ento.csiro.au>
To: Lincoln.smtp("acarology@nhm.ac.uk","bruceh@spider....
Date:  18 September 2000 12:18pm
Subject:  Balaustium

Dear friends,

I am trying to establish the identity of some specimens belonging to the
genus Balaustium (Erythraeidae). I would like to examine the specimens of
Balaustium murorum (Hermann 1804) from Switzerland that were re-described by
Schweizer (1951). These specimens should be in the Natural History Museum in
Basel, Switzerland, but it appears that they cannot be found there.  Has
anyone examined or borrowed these specimens in recent years, or know where
they might be found?

Thank you for your help.

Bruce Halliday

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CSIRO Entomology
GPO Box 1700
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia

Telephone (02) 6246 4085
Mobile 0438 543509
International Telephone (61) (2) 6246 4085
Fax (02) 6246 4000
International Fax (61) (2) 6246 4000

E-mail bruceh@ento.csiro.au
http://www.ento.csiro.au/research/natres/natres.html
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Dear Acarologists:
Does anyone know the Gerd Alberti's email address?
Thanks from Argentina

Pablo
 
 

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* Pablo A. Martinez                           *
* Laboratorio de Artropodos                   *
* Departamento de Biologia                    *
* Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales    *
* Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata       *
* Funes 3350                                  *
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Dear All: I would like to received this old paper:

Tatchell RJ, Carnell R, Kemp DH. Related Articles
Electrical studies on the feeding of the cattle-tick, Boophilus microplus.
Z Parasitenkd. 1972;38(1):32-44.

Could somebody help me? I would like to have it by email (almost impossible)
or by postal mail:

Rafael de la Vega
Apartado 34, General Peraza
CP.- 19210, Ciudad Habana
Cuba

Thanks in advance. Rafael.