Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:55:43 -0500 (EST)
From: "J. May Home Inspections" <jmhi@kalypso.cybercom.net>
To: acarology@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Mite and mite egg case ID
 

I found numerous mite skins and an egg case on a basement door that
was covered with Aspergillus,  E. repens E. rubrum.  I have an SEM of
the egg case and partial mite bodies.  Could I e-mail this to someone for
ID? From a wall sample of Stachybotrys on drywall, I found several small
mites and a 300 micron mite that I am also curious about.(light
micrograph).

Thanks.
Jeffrey May
J. May Home Inspections
www.jmhi.com
jmhi@cybercom.net
 
 
 

CC: Lincoln.smtp("jmhi@cybercom.net")

Someone had asked me if Pyemotes boylei is a valid name. As far as I know
it is and is the only pyemotid species established in Hawaii. Can someone
tell me if what I know is still true and if the name was synonymized with
P. tritici?

Aloha,

Sabina

____________________________________
Sabina F. Swift
Department of Entomology
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
 
 

 Dr.  Sabina Swift
Dear Sabina
Check Cross & Moser paper (1975) Ann Ent. Soc. Am.  68(4) 723.  P. boyle is
a junior synonym of P. tritici.  Ron
 

Ronald Ochoa, Ph.D.
Systematic Entomology Laboratory
USDA, ARS, BA, PSI,
Building 005, Room 137
BARC-West, 10300 Baltimore Av.
Beltsville, Maryland 20705
Phone:  (301) 504 7890
Fax:  (301) 504 6482
rochoa@sel.barc.usda.gov

Dear participants

We thought it was completely clear, since August, 1996, when the abstract
session was placed on the homepage, but we were asked by several
participants if they are to submit abstracts in the case of presenting a
paper during the XXI ICE.

Have to present abstracts:
1. All Plenary Lectures;
2. All participants of the symposia of sessions 1 to 23 and also the
Special Session, with oral presentation;
3. All participants presenting papers as posters.

Item 16. of the abstracts page on the homepage (the same for the 2nd
announcement) says:

"16. Abstracts received after February 28th, 2000 will not be considered
for publication and for presentation in the oral or the poster sessions. In
this case, space on the session or plenary lectures abstracts volume will read
"The author did not send the abstract"
following the title of the presentation and the name of the author."

The deadline for submitting abstracts was postponed to March 10th.
For more information, pls visit http://www.embrapa.br/ice/abstract.htm

Yours sincerely,

Decio Luiz Gazzoni
President, XXI ICE
*********************************************************************
Decio Luiz Gazzoni
President, XXI International Congress of Entomology
Caixa Postal 231      86001-970  Londrina       Brazil
Phone +55 43 3716213    Fax +55 43 3716100
http://www.embrapa.br/ice   E-mail: ice@sercomtel.com.br
*********************************************************************

From: "sajid targui" <tarsajif@hotmail.com>
To: acarology@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: request of documents
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 10:11:59 GMT
 

FROM : TARGUI Sajid
E-mail : tarsajif@hotmail.com
ADDRESSE : ECOLE NATIONALE D'AGRICULTURE DE MEKNES BP S/40
Morocco

Dear sir,

I am so delighted to write you this letter. I inform you that I am a student
in a high school of agriculture from Morocco.

I am previously preparing a thesis about the pesticide mite resistance,
more specifically in Tetranychidae.

So I ask you, if it is possible, to send me some documents about that.
That would be very helpful to me.

TARGUI Sajid
E-mail : tarsajif@hotmail.com
ADDRESSE : ECOLE NATIONALE D'AGRICULTURE DE MEKNES BP S/40
Morocco

Dear Entomologist

Just to remember everybody that the deadline for sending your photos is
March 31st.

See the rules and more information at www.embrapa.br/ice/photo.htm

Yours

Decio Luiz Gazzoni
President, XXI ICE
*********************************************************************
Decio Luiz Gazzoni
President, XXI International Congress of Entomology
Caixa Postal 231      86001-970  Londrina       Brazil
Phone +55 43 3716213    Fax +55 43 3716100
http://www.embrapa.br/ice   E-mail: ice@sercomtel.com.br
*********************************************************************

Dear Colleagues:

Dr Krantz has been on assignment in Piracicaba, Brazil since February 1
and shall be there until the end of April.  Because it is often difficult to for
him to access his email server at Oregon State University, he would
appreciate colleagues of list membership that email messages should be
sent to:  <gwkrantz@carpa.ciagri.usp.br> until May 1.

Thank you for your attention.

Zhi-Qiang Zhang
Acarology List-owner
Acarology home page:
www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/

Systematic and Applied Acarology Society
www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/saas/

Z-Q. Zhang's page:
www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/zhang/
 
 
 

CC: Lincoln.smtp("gwkrantz@carpa.ciagri.usp.br")

Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 14:57:58 +0000
To: acarology@nhm.ac.uk
From: Anne Baker <asb@nhm.ac.uk>
Subject: Ordering Mites & Ticks of Domestic Animals

Dear Colleagues,

Once again, apologies for the problems encountered when trying to
order my book online.  The Stationery Office is apparently still trying to
sort things out, but it might be quicker to use one of the old-fashioned
ways. I have been given the following addresses and numbers for doing
this:

The Stationery Office
PO Box 276
London SW8 5DT
UK

Tel: 0870 6005522 (UK only)
Fax: 0870 6005533 (UK only)
Tel: +44 20 7873 0011
Fax: +44 20 7873 8242
Email: book.orders@theso.co.uk
Email: Customer.Services@theso.co.uk

Good luck

Anne

PLEASE NOTE NEW TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS

Dr Anne S. Baker
Department of Entomology
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
Tel. 020 7942 5656
Fax. 020 7942 5229
Email asb@nhm.ac.uk
 
 

***Please reply to mariam120@yahoo.com

From: mariam lekveishvili <mariam120@yahoo.com>
Subject: looking for information
To: acarology@nhm.ac.uk
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Dear Acarologists!

Let me inform you that I am  acarologist from Georgia
(Caucasus). I work at the Department of Ecology at
Tbilisi State University. I study sistematics and
ecology of acaroid mites under the guidance of Dr.
Kadjaia. Also, I have assimilated cytogenetical
methods of study.

I should note that I suffer lack of information. At
present I am looking for the description of genus
Aeroglyphus (Acaroidea: Glycyphagidae) or any
information about it.

I would apreciate very much if you could halp me with
it.

With best regards

Mariam Lekveishvili
Department of Ecology
Tbilisi State University
Tbilisi, Georgia (Caucasus)
Tel. (8832)226148 , (8832)300643
e-mail: mariam120@yahoo.com
 

__________________________________________________
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Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
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CC: Lincoln.smtp("mariam120@yahoo.com")

Dear all,

Here enclosed an announcement for the next international congress in
Acarology to be held in Rennes and organised by Professor Deunff. Feel free
to contact him if any interest and questions about this course.
 

                      COURS INTERNATIONAL D'ACAROLOGIE

                             ACAROLOGIE 2000
    Utilisation des marqueurs moléculaires en Acarologie
 

La SIALF (Société Internationale des Acarologues de Langue Française)
souhaite tester la faisabilité d'un cours d'Acarologie consacré
exclusivement à l'initiation à la pratique des marqueurs moléculaires, en
Octobre 2000.
 

Date limite des préinscriptions :  31 Mars 2000

Nombre de places limité : 25 étudiants au maximum

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

Bulletin de préinscription

nom :
prénom :

laboratoire :
adresse :
 

tel :
fax :
E-mail :

centre d'intéret :

Bulletin à renvoyer dans les meilleurs délais, seul les 25 premiers
dossiers seront retenus ( sur la date de la poste, du E-mail ou du fax ), a
: Pr. J. DEUNFF, UMR 6553 CNRS Parasitologie Pharmaceutique, Faculté de
Pharmacie, Université de RENNES I, av. Pr. Léon Bernard, 35043 RENNES.
E-mail : Jean.Deunff@univ-rennes1.fr
fax : 02-99-33-68-96
tel : 02-99-33-68-16
 

                      Programme provisoire
      (vos avis seront pris en compte dans l'établissement
        du programme définitif)
 

     Le cours doit présenter les principales méthodes et assurer
      une initiation à l'utilisation des marqueurs moléculaires.
 
 

dates : du 12 au 21 Octobre 2000

Jeudi 12 :  _ accueil des étudiants à la Station biologique de Paimpont
                 _ formation des groupes de TP

Vendredi 13 : 9 à 12h : _ acarologie générale(morphologie, classification..)
                   14 à 18h : _ TP de microscopie

Samedi 14 :  9 à 12h : _ acarologie générale (suite)
                                  _ intéret de la biologie moléculaire
                 14 à 18h : _ TP de microscopie photonique + MEB

Dimanche 15 : tourisme

Lundi 16 :    9 à 12h : _ les principaux marqueurs moléculaires
                 14 à 18h : _ méthodes d'extraction + TP

Mardi 17 :   9 à 12h : _ ADN mitochondrial
                14 à 18h : _ TP

Mercredi 18 : 9 à 12h : _ RFLP _ AFLP_ RAPD...
                   14 à 18h : _ TP

Jeudi 19 : 9 à 12h : _ microsatellites, SSCP... séquençage
              14 à 18h : _  TP à RENNES, séquençage automatique
                                  (transport par car :  aller et retour)

Vendredi 20 : 9 à 12h : _ traitement de données
                   14 à 18h : _ TP

Samedi 21 : 9 à 12h : _ analyses de cas concrets
                14 à 16 h : _ bilan , évaluation du cours.
 

----------------------------------------------------------------------

*******************************************************
           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
 
*******************************************************
 

Can someone help Steve? Please reply to him directly.
Zhi-Qiang Zhang

From:  "Steve Dudley" <dudleyse@ix.netcom.com>
To: MarcDom.LR-Marc(ZhangZ)
Date:  8 March 2000 1:21pm
Subject:  Source for information on local ticks.

Dear Sir:

I live in the Big Horn Mountains of north central Wyoming.  I am looking for
information on ticks in this area, and if not in this area then in the general
Rocky Mountain region.  I have not been able to locate any field guides or
other sources of information.  Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you for your help.

Sincerely yours,

Steve Dudley
 
 
 

CC: Lincoln.smtp("dudleyse@ix.netcom.com")

Dear Acarologists:

Below is the obituary of Dr. John Conroy, water mite biologist, who died
suddenly last month.  Dr. Conroy worked on the taxonomy and ecology of
western Canadian water mites.  He described new species of Hydrodroma,
Limnesia, Sperchon, Sperchonopsis, Lebertia, Arrenurus, Neoacarus, Piona,
Tiphys, Forelia, Pionopsis, Atractides, and Unionicola, and revised the
North American Neumania.  His ecological papers include surveys and
checklists of the water mites of western Canada including British Columbia,
studies of drift in stream-dwelling mites, and phenology of planktonic
Unionicola.  His industry and sense of humour will be missed.

************************
[from the Winnipeg Free Press]

PROFESSOR JOHN CONROY

Suddenly on February 25, 2000 at the Health Sciences Centre, Professor John
C. Conroy (BSC, MSC, PhD) in his 61st year. Much loved husband of Mary
Conroy; father of David (Carol), Allan, and Alison (Don); granddad of Sean,
Sarah, and Eric. Predeceased by his parents, Judge Charlie and Mary Conroy;
and his brother Paddy Conroy. Also survived by
Grace Redmond, Michael Conroy, and Anne Coyle; brothers-in-law;
sisters-in-law; and many nephews and nieces.

John was born in Dublin, Ireland on July 27, 1939. He was educated at
Xavier's School, Clongowes Wood College, National University of Ireland
(Dublin), National University of Ireland (Galway), and the University of
Manitoba.

John and Mary were married in Limerick on September 17, 1963 and
immigrated to Winnipeg to take up a post as a lecturer in Biology at United
College (University of Winnipeg). The couple briefly lived in Vancouver
before settling in Winnipeg to raise their family.

John was a dedicated professor, well respected by his colleagues, and much
loved by his students. For several years he presided as the Chief Marshall
of convocations at the University of Winnipeg. He was also President of UCD
in North America, a member of the Manitoba Entomological Society, Secretary
of the International Congress of Entomology, and a representative of the
Veterinary School of Saskatoon.

John was an active member of the community of St. Ignatius, acting as a
lector, co-ordinator, instructor of confirmation, and chair of the Parish
Pastoral Council and the Liturgy Committee. He was also active at various
levels in the Liberal Party.

Prayers will be held on Tuesday, February 29 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Ignatius
Church (Corydon and Stafford). Funeral service will be held on March 1 at
1:30 at St. Ignatius Church. Fr. Eric Jensen will celebrate the funeral
mass. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the University of
Winnipeg, in care of University Affairs. A scholarship in Entomology will be
set up in his name, The John Conroy Scholarship Fund, University of
Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave., R3B 2E9. For more information please call
(204)786-7811.

Go' neirige an bothar leat

***********************

____________________________________

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 Colleagues:

For those who are new to this list and those who are not aware, I am
pleased to inform you that the quarterly journal, Acarology Buleltin ISSN
1361-8091 (AB), has been made online free of charge to the acarological
community by the Systematic & Applied Acarology Society (SAAS).  AB
is the newsletter of SAAS and includes current acarological news, list of
new books, book reviews, lists of current contents of acarological
journals ...    AB's web page is at:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/saas/ab.html

More information about SAAS is at:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/saas/

Best wishes for a great weekend!

Sincerely yours,

Zhi-Qiang Zhang
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/zhang/

Acarology Home Page
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/

I posed a question to the Acarology and the Collembola lists about two month
ago, to find proper extraction fluids for the Macfadyen canister extractor for soil
samples. Here is a long overdue summary of the many interesting responses I
received. Sorry for the long delay! Many thanks to all who responded!
 

In short, there is no simple solution to the problem. Several of the following
substances seem worth trying (especially benzoic acid, see the response of
Henning Petersen below), but there's no tested standard fluid. Discouraging, if we
imagine that the canister technique is still the most efficient method for the
extraction of soil microarthropods. Nobody out there to make a comparison of
fluids ...?
 

Following are the summarized messages, details omitted. Two mails with the
most detailed recipes are given in full length.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 

D.A. Crossley suggests to extract into water (plus detergent) but believes that
there's no difference in extraction efficiency between water and 70% ethyl alcohol.
 

Christian Kampichler also favours water (plus detergent plus glycerol) but
concedes to have to change the canisters in short intervals (daily?) to transfer the
extracted animals into ethanol.
 

Gordon Robertson uses water. He never had problems with fungal contamination
or interference between caught animals. This can be due to the presence of lead
weights in the canisters that may have toxic effects on both fungi and animals.
 

Gerd Weigmann uses picric acid (a 50% aqueous solution), and suggests to try a
5-10% solution of benzoic acid, or a 1% solution of Cu-sulphate.
 

Henning Petersen and Steve Coulson use benzoic acid solutions. See their
recipes below.
 

Hartmut Koehler and Ken Christiansen abandoned the cumbersome Macfadyen
apparatus completely. Ken Christiansen suggests to use polyethylene glycol.
 

Guy Vannier had the idea to use parafin oil, which has low density (0.56, allows
the animals to sink), is tasteless, odourless, translucent and cheap.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 

Steve Coulson wrote:
 

"<italic></color>We use benzoic acid with excellent results. Less toxic and less explosive

than picric acid! I tend to use a 100% solution but this can be diluted

considerable and the Collembola and mites are still rapidly killed. After

extraction I remove some of the benzoic acid solution and replace with 96%

alcohol to create an approximately 70% alcohol solution. After fitting a

lid to the vials, they are heated at 60 degrees C for a couple of hours to

encourage the Collembola to sink (they may need to be poked under with a

pencil etc.). I then add a few drops of glycerol and incubate at 60C

overnight. On the following day I remove the lids and evaporate the

alcohol etc. The animals are now stored in a thin film of glycerol and

will keep more or less indefinitely.

See:

Leinaas, H. P. 1978. Sampling of soil microarthropods from coniferous

forest podzol. - Norwegian Journal of Entomology 25: 57-62."</italic>
 
 

Henning Petersen wrote:
 

"<italic>I have worked with Macfadyen type extractors through many years and have

found that  both the "canister" type and the "funnel" type give

satisfactory high extraction efficiency (Petersen, H. 1978. Some

properties of two high-gradient extractors for soil microarthropods, and

an attempt to evaluate their extraction efficiency. Natura Jutlandica 20:

95 - 121).  At that time I used picric acid solution but because of the

carcinogenic nature I later replaced it with an aqueous, or rather thin

alcohol-, solution of benzoic acid.  Benzoic acid does not easily dissolve

in water. Therefore, it has first to be dissolved in 96% alcohol. After

addition of a few drops of detergent it can be diluted with water. Our

recipe here is: 15 g Benzoic acid is dissolved in 1 l 96% alcohol. 3 drops

of detergent (Nonidet) are added. This liquid is diluted with 4 l

distilled water. This liquid works well in spite of the alcohol content.

However, for the canister type extractor with little air between soil and

liquid surface it may be recommendable to try to reduce the alcohol

percentage as far as possible.
 

In order to make the hydrophobic animals sink into the liquid after

extraction so much 96% alcohol is added that an alcohol percentage of

about 70% is attained. Thereafter, we close the vials and put them in a

drying oven at 60 degrees C for about 24 hours. This treatment apparently

makes the cuticle wettable. It is advisable to check the vials for

specimens sticking to the walls.
 

Following up on the discussion of easy ways of counting specimens I use to

transfer the liquid with the extracted specimens to small petridishes (5

cm diameter) and add so much glycerol that the bottom will be covered

after evaporation of the extraction liquid. The evaporation is done in a

drying oven at 50 degrees C.  In glycerol the animals will remain at a

stable position in the petri dish and counting may be done systematically

using a grid below the dish. I use a specially constructed electronic

counter with 16 units  activated from a 4x4 keyboard. I can the count 16

species/groups at a time. In cases with many specimens in each grid field

I estimate a number for each field by counting by 10´s instead of by 1´s.

In fact, hundreds of individuals can be counted in few minutes, and I have

given up attempts to rationalize the counting process further based on for

instance counting sectors of the complete sample or using image processing

or the like in cases where several species or groups have to be

distinguished."</italic>
 
 
 

<nofill>
Dr. Alexander Bruckner
Institute of Zoology
University of Agricultural Sciences
Gregor Mendel-Str. 33
A-1180 Wien, Austria
tel (Austria) 1 47654-3233
fax (Austria) 1 47654-3242
bruckner@edv1.boku.ac.at