My current research deals with using Iphiseius degenerans as a predator in greenhouses.  I need to be able to collect about 50 of the predators eggs at a time.  I am currently rearing the mites on castor beans and was going to collect the mite eggs off the plants.  Unfortunately, this does not seem to be practical.  I am now attempting to rear Iphiseius degenerans on spider mites in petri dishes and to collect the eggs they lay in the captivity.  If anybody has any other suggestions, I would be glad to hear them.

Thanks,
Scott Ludwig

Scott W. Ludwig                     |    Department of Entomology
Graduate Research Assistant         |    Georgia Experiment Station
INTERNET:                           |    University of Georgia
  Sludwig@bugs.ent.uga.edu          |    Griffin, Georgia 30223-1797 USA

From:  "N. Kane" <NAK95001@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
To: AGCAN.INTERNET("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")
Date:  5/28/97 1:11pm
Subject:  eriophyids

To anyone knowledgeable about eriophyids - I am trying to conduct a cross infestation experiment in which I take mites from one leaf and place them, hopefully alive and healthy, onto another leaf. The species with which I am working, Eriophyes laevis, causes pouch galls on alders.  I have tried numerous methods without success.  Some of those methods are: agitation in water and filtration, transferring pieces of infested leaves to the surfaces of the new leaves; brushes, needles, etc.  I would greatly appreciate advice on methods regarding eriophyids.  I am quite familiar with the literature, but I am not aware of any similar experiments or of any papers pertaining to this specific subject.  Thank you.

N. Kane

Dear colleagues,
as I wrote few months ago, I'm trying along with dr. Jim Amrine to arrange a database on eriophyoid mites connecting several information on them and also line drawings. I know that it is a huge work, but we have already done a lot of work. We have found few species for which we are not able to get the original paper. Might someone help us?

The papers that we need are the following:

Kikuti T., 1939 - New gall-mites from Japan (Acari, Eriophyidae). Ann. Zool. Jpn., 18: 232-235 (for Aceria kasi).

Brown G.K., Gilmartin A.J., 198? - A bud dwelling mite (Aceria: Family Eriophyidae) from Tillandsia capillaris (We don't know the source - for Aceria sp.)

Doreste E., 1968 - Primera lista de acaros de importancia agricola en Venezuela. Agronomia Tropical, 18(4): 449-460 (for three Aceria non defined for the species).

Bayan A., 1988 - Mites on plum trees in Lebanon. I. A general survey and a diagnostic key. Arab. J. Plant Protection, 6(1): 1-6 (for a not well defined C. lanceolatisetae).

Xin J.-L., Dong H.-Q., 1982 - A new species of genus Eriophyes from Yunnan (Acarina, Eriophyoidea). Zool. Res., 3 suppl.: 61-63.

Suharti M., 1980 - [Gall disease on cajuput leaves at Ponorogo, Madiun]. Laporan, Lembaga Penelitian Hasil Huten, Indonesia, 340, 12 pp. (for an Eriophyes)

Andre' M., 1946 - Une nouvelle variété de Eriophyes pini (Nal.), parasite des cypès dans le département du Var. Bull. Mus. Paris, 2e serie, 18: 475-477 (for Eriophyes pini cupressi).

Rong H.-Q., 1983 - [A preliminary study on Eriophyes sp. of Salix gordejevii]. Forest Sci. Technology, 8: 31-32.

If someone can send this material, he can send to the my address or to the Amrine's address:

James W. Amrine, Jr.
Division of Plant/Soil Sciences
P.O. Box 6108, WVU
Morgantown, WV 26505-6108

Thanks a lot for your help.
Enrico

dr. Enrico de Lillo
Institute of agricultural Entomology
via Amendola, 165/A
70126 Bari - Italy

CC: AGCAN.INTERNET("adipalma@box.clio.it")

I am a medical student doing a 10p project supervised by Sven Bergstrom at the Departement of Microbiology, Umea University, Sweden.In our search for a tick protein (Ixodes ricinus, Ixodes uriae) capable of eliciting an immune response, we would very much like to know if anyone have a cDNA-library or any (great?) ideas of how to make one.
Thank You all!

Viktor Kagstrom
virkam96@student.umu.se

Dear newsgroup,

        At risk of using my more bandwidth than is necessary, I am sorry to inconvenience the newsgroup with this, but I would like to know how the acarology listserver became the recipient of the junkmail from "ferncreek@hotmail.com".  I hate getting junk mail- and would have normally sent a message to remove myself from the offending corporation's list but in this case- the mail arrived to all the acarology newsgroup subscribers...and therefore to do so would mean unsubscribing from the listserve.

        I am writing to ask whoever is technically in charge of this listserve service- could you please find out where this junk mail came from and if it was generally unwanted (since maybe I'm alone in my hatred of this solicitation) see if we as a group can be removed from the junkmail list.

              Thank you and sorry not to have asked a mite question.

                                             -Chris

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

                   Christopher J. Marshall
             Dept. Entomology, Cornell University
              Comstock Hall, Ithaca NY 14853-0901
                       tel:(607) 255-1351
                       fax:(607) 255-0939

From:  <aolsen@ora.fda.gov>
To: AGCAN.INTERNET("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")
Date:  7/16/97 4:11pm
Subject:  Ingestant Allergens

I'm in the process of preparing a preliminary health hazard evaluation for arthropod allergens in foods.  I would deeply appreciate help in locating  literature references for cases where mite-infested food caused an allergic reaction.  The literature on inhalant allergens is voluminous as is the literature concerning RAST, etc., surveys for sensitivity.  I have a good  handle on those references.  I have Wharton's review of house dust mites, so  I'm covered to that era.  Searched medline and done the other usual things.  Still very slim pickings in the area of people who reacted to mite-infested foods.  If anyone knows of a reference citation for allergic reactions to mite-infested food or other relevant studies, please share the citation with me.

Thanks in Advance

Alan Olsen
aolsen@ora.fda.gov

"Dear newsgroup,

        At risk of using my more bandwidth than is necessary, I am sorry to inconvenience the newsgroup with this, but I would like to know how the acarology listserver became the recipient of the junkmail from "ferncreek@hotmail.com".  I hate getting junk mail- and would have normally sent a message to remove myself from the offending corporation's list but in this case- the mail arrived to all the acarology newsgroup subscribers...and therefore to do so would mean unsubscribing from the listserve.

        I am writing to ask whoever is technically in charge of this listserve service- could you please find out where this junk mail came from and if it was generally unwanted (since maybe I'm alone in my hatred of this solicitation) see if we as a group can be removed from the junkmail list.

              Thank you and sorry not to have asked a mite question.

                                             -Chris
 

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

                   Christopher J. Marshall
             Dept. Entomology, Cornell University
              Comstock Hall, Ithaca NY 14853-0901
                       tel:(607) 255-1351
                       fax:(607) 255-0939""

I thoroughly agree with Chris. How can we protect the group from junkmail?

Dr. Hartmut H. Koehler, Univ. Bremen FB2, Inst. Ecol. Evol. Biol., Ctr. Env.
Res. & Env. Technol., POB 330 440, D 28334 Bremen, Germany, tel. x421 - 218
4179, fax x421 - 218 7654, eMail a13r@uni-bremen.de

I think that our list manager, Zhi-Qiang Zhang, can do very little to control what is or isn't sent to subscribers of the acarology list.  This  is due to the nature of this form of communication: It is very easy to send junk mail to thousands of lists with just a few keystrokes, and some people make a living out of it!  The only alternative to this problem would be to have a moderated list were one person would make sure of the legitimacy of all e-mails before forwarding them to the members of the list.  That is impossible at this moment.

My advice is to configure your e-mail software so that it filters out incoming mail from known "spammers" and their kind.  You can also try to contact the System Administrator of the site where the offending e-mails originate.

Ariel

Christopher J. Marshall wrote:

Dear newsgroup,

        At risk of using my more bandwidth than is necessary, I am sorry to inconvenience the newsgroup with this, but I would like to know how the acarology listserver became the recipient of the junkmail from "ferncreek@hotmail.com".  I hate getting junk mail- and would have normally sent a message to remove myself from the offending corporation's list but in this case- the mail arrived to all the acarology newsgroup subscribers...and therefore to do so would mean unsubscribing from the listserve.

        I am writing to ask whoever is technically in charge of this listserve service- could you please find out where this junk mail came from and if it was generally unwanted (since maybe I'm alone in my hatred of this solicitation) see if we as a group can be removed from the junkmail list.

              Thank you and sorry not to have asked a mite question.

                                             -Chris
      ****************************************************

Christopher J. Marshall
Dept. Entomology, Cornell University
Comstock Hall, Ithaca NY 14853-0901
tel:(607) 255-1351
fax:(607) 255-0939

Dear Chris,

I got that junk message also...  I support your action... I'm also very curious about steps taken by the acaralogy news group. I unsubscribed me from the Arachnology newsgroup due to all shit appearing on the newsgroup (there were days I got 300 messages in the box!!!! (yes 3 0 0 )), while nothing was done about it.  Until recently, the acralogy news group was free of this kind of messages... Let's keep it that way...

Greetings,

Gie Wyckmans
Antwerp Entomologic Society

CC: AGCAN.INTERNET("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")

I fully agree with Chris on this subject of getting junk mail via Acarology net.
Carlos H.W. Flechtmann
Univ. Sao Paulo - Brazil

On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Christopher J. Marshall wrote:

Dear newsgroup,

        At risk of using my more bandwidth than is necessary, I am sorry to inconvenience the newsgroup with this, but I would like to know how the acarology listserver became the recipient of the junkmail from "ferncreek@hotmail.com".  I hate getting junk mail- and would have normally sent a message to remove myself from the offending corporation's list but in this case- the mail arrived to all the acarology newsgroup subscribers...and therefore to do so would mean unsubscribing from the listserve.

        I am writing to ask whoever is technically in charge of this listserve service- could you please find out where this junk mail came from and if it was generally unwanted (since maybe I'm alone in my hatred of this solicitation) see if we as a group can be removed from the junkmail list.

              Thank you and sorry not to have asked a mite question.

                                             -Chris
 

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

                   Christopher J. Marshall
             Dept. Entomology, Cornell University
              Comstock Hall, Ithaca NY 14853-0901
                       tel:(607) 255-1351
                       fax:(607) 255-0939

CC: AGCAN.INTERNET("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")

The full header of the recent unsolicited and unwanted commercial message contained some potentially useful information for acarology email recipients. The company sending the offensive message apparently is a member of a industry group called IEMMC.

IEMMC-members agree to send their commercial unsolicited emails through a   third party that will technically administer and maintain a list of addresses (the 'global removal database').  The filter will
disallow the sending of ANY commercial Email to any address on the list. ALL unsolicited commercial Email must pass through the filtration system, which will also append a footer to each message identifying the sender as an approved member of the IEMMC, with pointer to the IEMMC website. Individuals may add themselves to the global remove system via double-confirmation (unique coded plus return mail) email, which can be emailed directly to globalremove@iemmc.org or interfaced at the IEMMC website (http://www.iemmc.org/remove.htm).

IEMMC claims that "members who violate the code will have their membership status reviewed by the membership elected judicial review panel. Penalties may include warnings, fines, and suspension of membership status. Repeated violations will result in permanent revocation of membership status." I have yet to find a reason why unsolicited emailers would want to join IEMMC, so this threat of revocation of membership status seems to carry no teeth.  Nevertheless, if IEMMC's filter is real, then it provides one way of reducing the annoyance caused by these unwanted messages.

I'd be interested in learning of other suggestions (besides un-subscribing to this list.
=======================================================================
Richard J. Pollack, Ph.D.   email: rpollack@hsph.harvard.edu
Department of Tropical Public Health phone: (617) 432-1587
Harvard School of Public Health  fax: (617) 738-4914
665 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115-6021  USA
========================================================================

Let me second Chris Marshall's objection to receiving junk mail via the acarology listserver.
What can be done?

At 09:48 PM 7/15/97 -0500, you wrote:
Dear newsgroup,

       At risk of using my more bandwidth than is necessary, I am sorry to inconvenience the newsgroup with this, but I would like to know how the acarology listserver became the recipient of the junkmail from "ferncreek@hotmail.com".  I hate getting junk mail- and would have normally sent a message to remove myself from the offending corporation's list but in this case- the mail arrived to all the acarology newsgroup subscribers...and therefore to do so would mean unsubscribing from the listserve.

       I am writing to ask whoever is technically in charge of this listserve service- could you please find out where this junk mail came from and if it was generally unwanted (since maybe I'm alone in my hatred of this solicitation) see if we as a group can be removed from the junkmail list.

             Thank you and sorry not to have asked a mite question.

                                            -Chris

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

Christopher J. Marshall
Dept. Entomology, Cornell University
Comstock Hall, Ithaca NY 14853-0901
tel:(607) 255-1351
fax:(607) 255-0939

D. A. Crossley, Jr.  If it's less dangerous
Institute of Ecology  than driving to work,
Ecology Annex  don't worry about it.
University of Georgia  -- Rick Norwood.
Athens, Georgia 30602-2360
 

CC: Christopher J. Marshall <cm13@cornell.edu

------- Forwarded Message Follows -------

From:           Self <S06SUBZ2/C71966>
To:               cm13@cornell.edu (Christopher J. Marshall)
Subject:        Re: junk mail
Date sent:     Thu, 17 Jul 1997 11:20:25 +0100

Dear colleague,
I agree entirely with your message concerning junk-mail. As a non-expert in computer technology I support all attempts to keep our list-server "clean"!!!
Sincerely yours

Heinrich Schatz

Dr. Heinrich Schatz
Institute of Zoology
Technikerstr. 25
A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Tel: +43-512 507 6164
Fax: +43-512 507 2930
e-mail: heinrich.schatz@uibk.ac.at

From:  Scott Ludwig <sludwig@bugs.ent.uga.edu>
To: AGCAN.INTERNET("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")
Date:  7/16/97 11:51am
Subject:  More ferncreek

Yesturday I sent a message to ferncreek@hotmail.com asking them what there message had to do with acarology and this is was their reply:

"Your email address was given to me as a person interested in business opportunities...IF THIS IS NOT CORRECT, then please accept my apologies. You will NOT be contacted again."
 

Scott W. Ludwig                          |    Department of Entomology
Graduate Research Assistant        |    Georgia Experiment Station
INTERNET:                                 |    University of Georgia
  Sludwig@bugs.ent.uga.edu        |    Griffin, Georgia 30223-1797 USA

Comments:
I wish there were some way to return junk e-mail to sender and clog HIS/HER system with their own garbage.

ARO
 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
To:  "Christopher J. Marshall" <cm13@cornell.edu>
Cc:  <acarology@nhm.ac.uk>
From:  sky37864 <Dragon@skynet.be>
Date:  Wednesday, July 16, 1997 at 9:28:46 am EDT
Attached: Headers.822

Christopher J. Marshall wrote:

 Dear newsgroup,

         At risk of using my more bandwidth than is necessary, I am sorry to inconvenience the newsgroup with this, but I would like to know how the acarology listserver became the recipient of the junkmail from "ferncreek@hotmail.com".  I hate getting junk mail- and would have normally sent a message to remove myself from the offending corporation's list but in this case- the mail arrived to all the acarology newsgroup subscribers...and therefore to do so would mean unsubscribing from the listserve.

         I am writing to ask whoever is technically in charge of this listserve service- could you please find out where this junk mail came from and if it was generally unwanted (since maybe I'm alone in my hatred of this solicitation) see if we as a group can be removed from the junkmail list.

               Thank you and sorry not to have asked a mite question.

                                              -Chris

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

                    Christopher J. Marshall
              Dept. Entomology, Cornell University
               Comstock Hall, Ithaca NY 14853-0901
                        tel:(607) 255-1351
                        fax:(607) 255-0939
 

From:  Ariel Diaz <ad18@cornell.edu>
To: AGCAN.INTERNET("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")
Date:  7/16/97 3:15pm
Subject:  Re: Fwd: Re: junk mail

Comments:
I wish there were some way to return junk e-mail to sender and clog HIS/HER system with their own garbage.

ARO

Flooding the sender with e-mail may seem like a good response, but there are many issues to consider...

1.  A lot of this junk mail is sent by mailers that automatically type a false or non-existent account as the senders' address.  Thus, all the mail you send to that address will bounce back to you and can potentially clog your own server.

2.  It takes a huge amount of e-mail to clog an e-mail server.  And it has to go through your server first.  On top of that, you would have to spend time looking for any hidden adresses, etc., and time sending your e-mails, and so on.

3.  Even if you get through, the most likely outcome is that the people affected will be those other than your target.  Remember that the only thing they want is to get that initial e-mail to you.  You already have it, so they have achieved their goal.  Bringing down a server will not hurt them in any way.

4.  There are many legal issues concerning the practice of bomb-mailing.  The various serious organizations that deal with issues of unwanted mail (both e-mail and snail mail) advise people not to resort to this strategy.  That doesn't mean that you cannot contact the particular System Administrator, etc.

5.  There is plenty of information on the Web regarding this and other net abuse issues.  For those of you with web browsers, I recommend doing a search on junk mail and spam.
 

Ariel

Dear Chris,

I got that junk message also...  I support your action... I'm also very curious about steps taken by the acaralogy news group. I unsubscribed me from the Arachnology newsgroup due to all shit appearing on the newsgroup (there were days I got 300 messages in the box!!!! (yes 3 0 0 )), while nothing was done about it.  Until recently, the acralogy news group was free of this kind of messages...
Let's keep it that way...

Greetings,

Gie Wyckmans
Antwerp Entomologic Society

From:  GAGA GIGIBERIA <GAGA@ISAC.ORG.GE>
To: AGCAN.INTERNET("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")
Date:  7/21/97 7:45am
Subject:  FROM MAIA

Dear collegues

I would like to inform you that I work in sistematic  and ecology of Acaroid mites. At present I am interested in karyology of mites. Please be so kind to send me all works  about this themes (especialy  karyotyping methods of mites).
 

Faithfully Yours
 

M. Lekveishvili

From:  Sabina Swift <swift@bishop.bishop.Hawaii.Org>
To: AGCAN.INTERNET("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")
Date:  7/25/97 2:29pm
Subject:  Latest spam (don't delete yet)
 

I agree with Ronald Ochoa about this spam bit;  keep your delete finger busy.  Our listserver owner cannot do anything about this as the spammers can find ways to get into our system.

How about this, excerpted from JME 34(4) p.440:  The host for the type series <(Hexidionis garfieldi, Trombiculidae)> is currently chasing mites in Corpus Christi, Texas (Goff & McKown, 1997).  :)

Have a great day and aloha.

Sabina
<> my addition

From:  Anna Murrell <A.Murrell@mailbox.uq.edu.au>
To: AGCAN.INTERNET("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")
Date: 7/29/97   6:33:26 a.m.
Subject:  ?

I am seeking ticks for DNA extractions for phylogenetic purposes.  The genera I am particularly interested in are those in the Rhipicephalinae and also, in particular, Hyalomma.

Can anyone help?

Anna Murrell
 

Dear Dr. Murrell:

I got your message through Dr. Andrew Main.  I have preserved specimens in alcohol, how many samples do you think you need from each?  And what sex?

Hoping I can help you.  Best regards.

Hilda Y. Wassef
Medical Zoology Branch
U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3
Cairo, Egypt

E-mail address:  BadraM@namru3.navy.mil
 

CC: "'smtp:acarology@nhm.ac.uk'" <acarology@nhm.ac.uk>...

Glad to delete the earlier message.  However, let me make one correction; the quote should say "The host for the type series is currently chasing  MICE in Corpus Christi, Texas," not ...mites.  Sorry Lee.

Aloha,

Sabina
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Sabina F. Swift, PhD             / Phone: (808)847-8217
Bishop Museum                    /  Fax: (808)847-8252
Department of Natural Sciences   /  E-mail: swift@bishop.bishop.hawaii.org
P.O. Box 19000
Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 USA
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Dear Acarologists,

Have I got a deal for you!  Take $5 in U.S. bills and send them....

Just kidding.

A professor in our Plant Pathology department is having a problem with Oribatid and Tarsonemid mites in his fungus incubators (I have not seen the mites).  He is looking for a miticide which can be applied to the smooth surfaces, have a reasonably long residual, and not affect the fungi.  I suggested a pyrethroid spray,  but he wants other opinions (being that I am a lowly grad student).  Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Dan Slone
 

Daniel Slone . sloned@bcc.orst.edu . (541)737-5524 . Entomology Department
2046 Cordley Hall  .  Oregon State University  .  Corvallis  OR 97331-2907
PGP key, homepage, Nat. Sci. Illustration at: http://www.orst.edu/~sloned/