Can anyone help in John Winder's request? Please reply to him.
Thanks
Clive Bowman
Pluribus Ltd, 11 Fielding Road, Maidenhead, Berks, SL6 5DE, United Kingdom
tel: +44-(0)1628-632321 fax: +44-(0)870-557753 email: clive@pluribus.demon.co.uk
Der Welten Kleines auch ist wunderbar und gross, Und aus dem Kleinen bauen sich die Welten
----- Original Message -----
From: John Winder
To: Clive BOWMAN-Mites
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 6:51 PM
Subject: Pheromones in mites
 

Dear Dr Bowman,
 
I am presently doing a small study on pheromones in the Mercosul countries of Brazil, Argentina and Chile, and read on the internet that you work with mite pheromones.  Would you know who, if anyone,  is working on mite pheromones in these countries ?  How do you see the perspectives for using mite pheromones in IPM ?  Are there any actual examples ?
 
Thanking you in advance for your help.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
John Winder
Campinas, Brazil

   Dear Colleagues

    Please let me know the following scientists e-mail addresses:

Dr. R.M. Emberson      Dr. G.P. Hall   Dr. V. Iavorski

Dr. M.I. Mohamed     Dr. R.F. Toor     Dr. H.G.R. Strube

    Thank you in advance for your kind considerations.

Best regards

Sincerely yours

Alireza Saboori, Ph.D.
Department of Plant Protection
College of Agriculture
Tehran University
Karaj-Iran
Fax:0098-261-2224511
another e-mail: saboori2000@yahoo.com

At 9:20 AM +0100 4/24/01, roy-whitehead wrote:...in a stone-built holiday
cottage (c.  1850) at Twatt, Shetland, UK, he was bitten in three places on
his legs.   Earlier that year (2000), a young couple who were sleeping in
the same bedroom  reported being badly bitten by unknown insects....  Could
this have been Pymotes ventricosus or other P  sp?   Comments please.

It could have been Pyemotes tritici (what was formerly known as P.
ventricosus), but it also could have been one of the mammalian or avian
nest parasites, Dermanyssus, Liponyssoides or Ornithonysus species.  If the
cottage had an infestation of rodents, Liponyssoides sanugineus (the "house
mouse mite") could be responsible (sounds too far north to have
Ornithonyssus bacoti, the "tropical rat mite").  If swallows or sparrows
had nests on or in the structure, Dermanyssus gallinae, D. hirundinis, or
Ornithonyssus sylviarum could be responsible.
 Other possibilities (albeit larger insects) would include fleas (if
seasonal residents bring dogs, they can leave fleas behind which would
emerge when the cottage is disturbed) or bedbugs. - Barry OConnor

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So many mites, so little time!
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Barry M. OConnor
Professor & Curator             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
 

Late last year it was reported to me by Mr J----- that while stripping multiple layers of wallpaper from the timber boarded walls and sloping ceiling of a bedroom (upper floor) in a stone-built holiday cottage (c. 1850) at Twatt, Shetland, UK, he was bitten in three places on his legs.  Earlier that year (2000), a young couple who were sleeping in the same bedroom reported being badly bitten by unknown insects.  This cottage has a fairly extensive infestation of woodworm (Anobium punctatum) and is normally only occupied in the short Shetland summer by holiday visitors.  I was not able to obtain grub samples although I opened up some boarding which had been removed.

House pests in Shetland are usually limited to furniture beetle, slaters, daddylonglegs, and the occasional ant and earwig and more rarely a wasp and  reports of humans being bitten by insects are very few.  Monthly mean temperatures are modest (Summer 14, Winter 6 to 7), .Mean wind speeds are high Summer 11-12 kts, winter 20 kts, with gusts up to  80+ kts

Could this have been Pymotes ventricosus or other P sp?

Comments please.

Sincerely

Roy Whitehead, Bressay, Shetland UK

Dear Colleagues

  Many thanks for sending Dr. Alberti's e-mail address.

Best regards and wishes

Sincerely yours

Alireza Saboori, Ph.D.
Department of Plant Protection
College of Agriculture
Tehran University
Karaj-Iran
Fax:0098-261-2224511
another e-mail: saboori2000@yahoo.com

To: acarology@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: T. putr. colony?
From: "Thomas W Phillips/ento/dasnr/Okstate" <tomp@okstate.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:56:57 -0500

Dear Acarologists,

Does anyone have a colony of mold mites, Tyrophagus putrescentiae, from
which I could receive a small starter culture?  My colony died out and we
are in the midst of some experiments.  Normally these mites are everywhere
we don't want them to be, but now we are having trouble collecting them!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Tom Phillips
Assoc. Prof. of Stored-Product Entomology
Oklahoma State University
e-mail :  tomp@okstate.edu

phone (405) 744-9408
FAX (405) 744-6039

From:  G_W Krantz <krantzg@bcc.orst.edu>
To: Alireza Saboori <saboori@af.ut.ac.ir>
Date:  4/17/01 5:32
Subject:  Re: Dr. Aberti's e-mail

Dear Dr. Saboori:

   Dr. Alberti's email address is <alberti@rz.uni-greifswald.de>.

                           Regards,
                             Jerry Krantz

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 Dr. G.W. Krantz                       Phone (541) 737-5503
 Department of Entomology              Fax  (541) 737-3643
 Cordley 2046                          Email <krantzg@bcc.orst.edu>
 Oregon State University
 Corvallis, Oregon 97331-2907
 USA

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On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alireza Saboori wrote:

>
>     Dear Colleagues
>
>       Please let me know Dr. G. Alberti's e-mail address. Thank you in
> advance for your help.
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Sincerely yours
>
> Alireza Saboori, Ph.D.
> Department of Plant Protection
> College of Agriculture
> Tehran University
> Karaj-Iran
> Fax:0098-261-2224511
> another e-mail: saboori2000@yahoo.com
>

    Dear Colleagues

      Please let me know Dr. G. Alberti's e-mail address. Thank you in
advance for your help.
 

Best regards

Sincerely yours

Alireza Saboori, Ph.D.
Department of Plant Protection
College of Agriculture
Tehran University
Karaj-Iran
Fax:0098-261-2224511
another e-mail: saboori2000@yahoo.com

Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 17:16:34 +0200
From: Gerd Weigmann <weigmann@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To: acarology@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Euraac webpage

We like to inform all acarologists, especially those in Europe, that the
homepage of EURAAC (European Association of Acarologists) is available
in the internet.
Go to http://www.fu-berlin.de/euraac/

Join EURAAC or renew your membership!!
Read the online NewsLetter of our association!
--
Gerd Weigmann                  |  weigmann@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Lab.f. Soil Zoology & Ecology  |  www.biologie.fu-berlin.de/bodenzoo/
Grunewaldstr. 34               |  Tel. +49.30.838.53885
D-12165 Berlin                 |  FAX  +49.30.838.53886

### Please reply to joy_lau_a@yahoo.com

Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:06:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andrea Lau <joy_lau_a@yahoo.com>
Subject: "What is causing the problem?"
To: acarology@nhm.ac.uk

Dear all,

I happened to come across your website and discussion
grp and I wonder if I could pose a qns and hopefully
find some answers. I've got a mom who is 50 over and
she constantly gets bitten by various microscopic
mites (microscopic bec we cannot see what causes the
bite marks on my mother's skin). The strange thing is
that we live in the same house but I do not get bitten
at all by any mites/insects/creatures. My mom thinks
that it has to do with age and that she having aging
skin is more prone to bites. I mention above that she
has been bitten by various mites bec of our
observation of the different characteristics of the
bites: some are painful bites that look like a small
mosquito bite except that the center part has a 'hole'
with exudate/liquid, some others appear as thin lines
of about one to one and a half inches which look like
a superficial scratch but when examined closely, one
can see a line of tiny bitemarks made by the creature,
some look like 2 deep bites at her finger joint. Every
evening now when my mom returns from work, she puts
repellent all over her skin and this has reduced
substantially the number of bites that she receives
everyday as compared to before. She has been quite
distessed abt this matter as the bites have also been
scarring her back.

I hope that whoever reads this can help explain what
is causing my mom to be getting all the bites and also
what measures to take to eliminate the 'invisible'
bugs/mites in the house.

Thank you very much.
 

Yours sincerely,
Andrea L.

> >>> Paul Pratt <prattp@eemail.com> 04/04/01 10:03 >>>
> A colleague of mine is looking for the taxonomic author of Bdella
> indicata. If you can help please respond to prattp@eemail.com
>
> Thanks in advance, Paul.