Announcements

VIRGINIA MOSQUITO CONTROL ASSOCIATION

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Event	Location	Dates

TMVCC MEETING	Golden Corral on Volvo Pkwy & Battlefield Blvd. in Chesapeake	Aug. 13, 2008 JIM ANDREWS

TRAST meeting	TBA	TBA
ANNUAL MEETING	Williamsburg, Va.	Feb. 4 - 6, 2009
MAMCA Meeting	VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.	Feb. 25 - 27, 2009
SHIRTS	SHIRTS BELOW

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In memory of a good friend of the VMCA,TMVCC, and TRAST organizations. Henry supported our organizations and in fact he and Mitch raised the first young sentinel chickens that the TRAST members used in their surveillance programs.

VIRGINIA MOSQUITO CONTROL ASSOCIATION

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VIRGINIA MOSQUITO CONTROL ASSOCIATION

Registration for Identification Course

Identification Course Application

Name ______________________ Phone ______________ Fax _________________

Affiliation ____________________________________________________________

Address ______________________________________________________________

City _____________________________ State ___________ Zip ________________

E-Mail:

Member _____________ Non Member _________

The course fee is $70.00 VMCA members - $75.00 non-members, which includes VMCA Associate Membership.

Please make check payable to: VMCA

Mail or fax this form to JoAnn Beasley, Secretary/Treasurer VMCA, c/o 508 Whitehaven Crescent, Chesapeake, Va. 23325 Fax: (757) 966-5236 Phone: 523-5224 or Cell (757) 508-5224.

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MOSQUITO SURVEILLANCE AND IDENTIFICATION COURSE

INFORMATION SHEET

Course Title: Mosquito Surveillance and Identification Course

Instructor: David N. Gaines, PhD – Virginia Dept. of Health

Bruce A. Harrison, PhD – N.C. Dept. Environ. & Nat. Resources

Sponsor: Virginia Mosquito Control Association (VMCA)

Course Date: May 28 & 29, 2008

Location: Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Holland, VA (8 mi. West of Suffolk City on Rt. 58)

Capacity: 20 students

Requirements:

Organizational members will have the first option to send an attendee.

Individual attendees should have mosquito surveillance and/or identification in their job description and duties. Prior experience with microscope and background in biology preferred.

**Application and payment must be received by May 16, 2008**

Course Fee: $70.00 - Virginia Mosquito Control Association members

$75.00 - Non-members. (VMCA associate membership included)

Course fee includes all training materials

Payment and/or arrangement for payment must be made before May 16, 2008. Contact Jo Ann Beasley, VMCA Secretary/Treasurer at 757-523-5224 or cell number 757-508-5224.

Mosquito Surveillance and Identification Course

May 28^th and 29th, 2008

Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center

Holland, VA (8 mi. West of Suffolk City on Rt. 58)

Schedule – Wednesday, May 28^th

8:00 – 8:30 AM –	Course Registration: Course Fee $75

8:30 – 9:30 AM –	Lecture/slides on WNV, mosquito biology, and mosquito surveillance techniques.

9:30 – 9:40 AM –	Break

9:40 – 10:10 AM –	Lecture/slides on mosquito taxonomy and identification.

10:10 – 11:00 AM –	Use of microscopes to identify unknown adult mosquito specimens to Genus level.

11:00 – 11:15 AM –	Break

11:15 – 12:30 PM –	Use of Microscopes to identify unknown adult mosquito specimens to species level.

12:30 – 13:30 PM –	Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 PM –	Use of Microscopes to identify unknown adult mosquito specimens to species level.

14:30 – 14:45 PM –	Break

14:45 – 15:30 PM –	Use of microscopes to identify unknown mosquito specimens to species level.

15:30 – 17:00 PM –	Field Trip to set CDC-Light and Gravid Traps

17:00 PM –	End of first day class

Mosquito Surveillance and Identification Course

May 28^th and 29^th, 2008

Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center (TAREC)

Holland, VA (8 mi. West of Suffolk City on Rt. 58)

Schedule – Thursday, May 29^th

Friday’s activities involve some field studies. Please dress appropriately; wear rugged clothing and shoes that are water resistant or that you don’t mind getting dirty. Bring rain gear just in case. If you have a shoulder bag that can be used for fieldwork, it will make your larval surveillance exercise easier. Bring a canteen, or other source of drinking water


8:30 – 9:30 AM –	Dr. Harrison – Lecture on the "Field Identification of Larvae" and "Knowing Larvae at the Generic Level".

9:30 AM – 12:30 PM –	Field trip to recover traps and trapped mosquitoes and field workshop on larval mosquito surveillance techniques and identification of larval growth stages.

12:30 – 13:00 PM –	Return to the Laboratory.

13:00 – 13:30 PM –	Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 PM –	Use of microscopes to identify unknown mosquito specimens to species level.

15:00 – 15:10 PM –	Break

15:10 – 17:00 PM –	Use of microscopes to identify freshly trapped adult mosquitoes to species level.

17:00 PM –	Class over

Course Location

The Mosquito ID Class will be held at the Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center (TAREC) near Holland, VA. The TAREC facility is 8 miles west of the city of Suffolk on Rt. 58 [on the south side of road just east of Holland) (See Map below). The class will be held in the TAREC facility’s auditorium. Ample parking space is available in the lot just in front of the building.

Overnight Accommodations

For those who are traveling from distant locations, hotel/motel accommodations may be necessary. A selection of four of the local accommodations within the Suffolk area are as follows:

Days Inn, 757-539-5111, 1526 Holland Rd. [Rt. 58], Suffolk, VA (from $64/night)

Quality Inn, 757-934-2311, 2864 Pruden Blvd. [Rt. 460], Suffolk, VA (from $80/night)

Hilton Garden Inn 757-925-1300, 100 East Constance Road, Suffolk, VA (from $139/night)

Super 8 Motel, 757-925-0992, 633 N Main St., Suffolk, VA (from $55/night)

See map to TAREC facility below