Greetings to you all. The year of 1995 and this portionof 1996 have been quite productive from our review of the literature onCeratopogonidae. The 1996 Biting Fly Workshop hosted by Louisiana StateUniversity, Baton Rouge was particularly stimulating, specifically theformal symposium on host-seeking behavior of diurnally active dipteranpests of livestock and man. It was great to meet colleagues from England,Zimbabwe, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, as well as the folks from acrossthe U.S.A.
I have received research updates from a number ofscientists for this issue. Appreciate the excellent participation by allcontributors. I encourage each of you to continue your efforts to communicatevia the CIE.
Would those of you who have access to e-mail pleasesend me an e-mail of your address? As we continue to use the communicationpower of the Internet, we may be able to correspond more via e-mail. Alisting of your e-mail addresses given thus far is enclosed and will beupdated in a future issues of the CIE. Please let us know of your activitiesin your Ceratopogonid work for the next CIE issue due out in November.
Thanks and best regards,
Sincerely,
Daniel V. Hagan, Ph.D.
Summary of CIE Contents:
Announcements ......................................................2
Contributions from Cerat. Scientists ...................... 2
Recent Literature on Ceratopogonidae ................... 5
For CIE Participants, please send me your e-mail address to dhagan@GaSoU.edu
Wayne Kramer is to host the 1997 Biting Fly Workshopin Nebraska. Details are unavailable at press time, but I will pass onmore information in the November CIE Newsletter.
Just a note to let you know that Georgia SouthernUniversity has extended an invitation to the North American DipteristsSociety (NADS) for the 1997 meeting (probably Spring or Summer 1997). I,along with my colleagues (Drs. Frank E. French and Sturgis McKeever), plusgraduate students are planning to host the '97 meeting here in coastalGeorgia, U.S.A.
I (plus, French and McKeever) attended the firstNADS meeting in April 1989 at Archbold Biol. Station, Florida. I unfortunatelymanaged to miss the Portal, Ariz. and Costa Rica meetings. Frank &Sturgis were there in CR this past year.
We plan to hold the meetings in Statesboro and havesome great collecting "field trips" to the Okeefenokee Swamp, to Sapelo,Jekyll, Sea Island and/ or St. Catherines Island (barrier islands) and/orto the sand ridge communities (relict dunes, 40 K years old). The coastalcity of Savannah (250 yrs. old) is only 60 mins away from Statesboro viainterstate (I-16).
We welcome our Canadian colleagues, and U.S. andMexican colleagues and any other international participants. Statesborois easy to get to driving or by flying (into Savannah International Airport).
Dan Hagan