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Associate Edito~s John Gamble New Smyrna Beach FL Betsy Field Vera Beach FL Stan Cope Pearl Harbor HI

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Colum n Editors Cbem line- Doug Wassmer Odessa FL Crankcase Eddie - Ed Meehan Mound MN Fly Wheels -James Robinson Odessa FL

Regional Editors Massachusetts - Timothy D Deschamps Norwood New Jersey -William C Reinert Northfield Oregon - Peter DeChant Portland Texas- Dan Sprenger Corpus Christi Utah - Glenn Collett Sal t Lake City

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Florida Mosquito Control Association Shelly Redovan Executive Director PO Box 60837 Fort Myers FL 33906-0837 voice 941-694-2174 fax 941-433-5684

FMCA 1996-1997 Board of Directors President

G Alan Curtis Vero Beach FL President-elect

David Dame Gainesville FL Vice-President

Joseph P Ruff Panama City FL Immediate Past President

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Margaret Crawford Santa Rosa Beach FL Northeast Regional Representative

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Gregory Scott Key West FL Member-at-Large

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of the Florida Mosquito Control Association Volume 8 Number 1 Spring 1997

Under Surveillance Dont Work Hard Work Smart 4 by 9e Sewvu Pk Z tjeu ttWre A~ S~ Pietlaquo ~a-wt 1at-~

Natures Way Dipper Delights 6 by~f Smid

Chip Chat Mosquitoes and the lnternet 11 by 7~ Z Z)~

Letters to The Editor 12

Culicideth 500 14 bys~s~

Feature Mosquito Control In Korea 16 by e4ltvrfie twU Pk Z

Gamble on the Future Is Big Brother Watching 18 by~et~

Vector Bearings Will We Be Spared Much Longer 19 by~ t~

News You Can Use 20

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About the Cover The insignia of the 6147th Tactical Control Group au ached to the US Air Force in Korea during the Korean conflict They were known as the Mosquitoes (See story on page 16)

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The Collier Mosquito Control Disshytrict located in southwest Florida has been involved in a large reshysearch project involving the use of a number of John Hoch 512 traps The trap presented a number of problems during use and caused a considerable amount of what we considered to be unnecessary work Following our policy of work smart we came up with a number of modifications to the trap and its manner of use which reduced our work load and improved the quality of our collections

Most of the modifications deshyscribed we think are original Howshyever its inevitable that some of these ideas have been borrowed from other mosquito control workshyers Where we know this to be the case we have tried to give the proper credit Hopefully some of these ideas will help you in your surveillance and research operashytions A list of suppliers for some of the parts and equipment used is provided at the end of the article

The Problems

1 Rain water in the collection jars which made it difficult to sepashyrate sandflies from mosquitoes and identify the specimens

2 Sandflies and mosquitoes mixed in the collection jar needed to be separated by processing the collections

3 Sandflies clogging up the trap motor by crawling through small holes in the top making it run harder and eventually burn up

4 Changing of trap batteries was required much too frequently when using a single 6 volt battery on traps running continuously Transporting charging and changshying batteries became a major chore

5 Corrosion of battery termishynals and connectors from rain and salt air Ruined batteries dead traps and poor connections between trap and battery resulted in lost time which we hoped to avoid

6 Non-polarized connections between trap and battery Be honshyest now havent you at least once plugged the trap into the battery so that the fan ran backwards We have and it was frustrating to say the least

7 Expensive manual battery chargers This was a problem beshycause of the number of batteries being used Reshyversed polarity when connecting batteries to charger uneven charging of batteries and the need to manually switch the chargers from full to trickle charge were some of the probshylems encountered Add that on top of a price of over $100 per charger and we come up with anshyother problem that

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we hoped to eliminate

OK we had a lot of problems (with the traps folks) so we tried to follow our bosss order of Dont bring me problems bring me solushytions The following is what we came up with and believe it they made life a lot easier this season

The Solution

To solve many of our battery reshylated problems we devised the batshytery pack shown in Fig 1 Battery packs were composed of four 10 amp 6 volt sealed batteries Short lengths of wire with female crimpshyon connectors were used to connect the batteries together negative to negative and positive to positive

An adaptor (Fig 1 at bottom right front corner of battery) with a female connector on one end and two male terminals on the other end facilitated connecting two wires to each battery terminal The female connector was slipped over the ter-

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Most of us in the mosquito conshytrol field have spent more time than we care to think about wandering around wetlands sampling for mosshyquito larvae with our trusty dippers So many times we see creatures that we have not seen before or are not able to identify I find the creashytures which live in the aquatic envishyronment fascinating It is almost as if you have been teleported onto another planet inhabited by a totally unique assemblage of creatures as foreign as those living at the botshytom of any oceanic rift valley

I am especially intrigued by the invertebrates such as the crustashyceans annelids insects and yes you can even observe examples of the sponges and hydras I can reshymember as a kid spending most of my time while supposedly skating actually on my hands and knees with my face inches from the transshyparent ice watching the caddisfly larvae struggling with their cases as they traveled across the submerged vegetation I did not get much exershycise but it did open my eyes to the fact that life goes on even when the temperatures drop and the snow flies

I have often corrected people when they would say that there are no mosquitoes around in the middle of winter when in fact there are milshylions of mosquitoes around They just happen to be in the egg stage As a kid I always thought that the invertebrates were destroyed by the freezing temperatures of winter and I was always curious as to how they recovered the next spring My anshyswer awaited me on the first semishywarm winter day The sun would

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heat the sheltered areas around my house and I would observe house flies and queen wasps lethargically sunning themselves I would turn over rocks in mid February and find a myriad of invertebrates busily pershyforming the art of survival under the most inhospitable conditions I think this is when my interest in inverteshybrates began resulting in many years of observations while involved with research at the University of Connecticut and post-grad at Northshyeastern University The same inshytense interest continues while samshypling mosquito larvae during prepashyrations for larval control operations in Norfolk County Massachusetts

For the benefit of those who may not have a background in inverteshybrate zoology I thought I would take a short journey through the world of the freshwater wetland id-entifying some of the creatures which I find so fascinating when dipping the wetshylands of 1Jew England

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ferred to as a side swimmer Very often these inhabitants take on vivid colorations of green and pink They are very fast swimmers and can make for real aggravation when tryshying to observe under the scope

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lsopods are also found in great numbers in most of the same habitats as mosquishytoes Many may know the terrestrial version which is very often called a pill bug even though it is not an inshysect (As a kid I had a much more technical name army tanks)

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Among the other middot-~ more common middot crustaceans found in the New England wetlands are the Ostracods the Cochostracans the Cladocerans (we all know Daphnia - the water flea) and the Branchiopoda represhysented by the fairy shrimp which is a common tropical fish food Look at these creatures under the scope and it looks as though these tiny arshymored arthropods are held together with riveted plates Fascinating alien life right in your own back yard

Of course the insect world is well represented in the wetlands of New England There are too many to fully discuss here so I thought I would only consider those that are the most common

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minal on the battery and crimped tight with pliers Wires with female connectors were then connected to the male terminals on the adaptor

To prevent that morning after feeling of picking up a trap that has been blowing instead of sucking all night a polarized plug (Fig 1) was used on each battery pack This gave a much better connection than the two individual connectors norshymally used The plug was conshynected to the battery pack so that the female terminal of the plug (the side completely covered with black insulation) was always the positive side

All of our traps batteries and battery chargers were wired with this plug insuring that they could only be connected one way With this system there were no questions about polarity when we connected equipment If the plugs went toshygether easily the polarity between battery and equipment was correct

This method of making battery packs saved money by requiring that only 6 volt batteries needed to be purchased They can be rewired to serve as 12 volt packs as needed It also saved time and efshyfort because the packs lasted longer (about 12 days when starting with a full charge) so they did not have to be hauled to and from the field as often

A couple of quick thoughts on the battery packs and their useTo make life a little easier when wiring th ings up we used red crimp-on connecshytors and wires for positive connections and blue crimpshyon connectors with green wire for negative connecshytions This just made life a little easier

While these battery packs were much less prone to acshycidental short circuits than

what was used in the past they were not fool proof One of the authors we wont say which one was reshyplacing the battery pack on a trap after a rough night He picked up the plug for the battery pack in one hand and the plug for the trap in the other and connected the two toshygether When the insulation on the plugs began to melt into his hands (in a very short time) he decided something was wrong and pulled the plugs apart What happened here He had battery plugs in both hands not just one The moral of the story is dont connect two battery packs together unless you want to warm your hands up The other problem we had was the uninsulated termishynal of the plug the negative termishynal accidentally coming into contact with a positive terminal on the batshytery pack This also led to melted insulation shorted batteries a nasty smell and a lot of ribbing from coshyworkers

In order to protect the fancy new battery packs from the elements and make them easier to handle we purchased plastic ammo boxes (Fig 2) to hold the packs A cutout in the top edge of the bo( bottom allowed space for the wire from the trap to enter the box without being compressed The top of the box had a lip which covered the cutout when the box was closed This preshyvented moisture from reaching the batteries and causing corrosion and

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shorts The boxes had a sturdy handle for carrying and could be stacked five or six high for transporshytation or storage

Battery Chargers

Now it was time to catch mosshyquitoes The batteries were well connected protected from the eleshyments and would give almost two weeks of service when fully charged Uh oh now we had to charge all those battery packs

As mentioned earlier the recomshymended charger for these batteries costs over $1 00 each and we needed at least five chargers to handle our load The chargers were also specific as to voltage so we would have to buy two chargers one in 6 volt and one in 12 volt for other equipment This added up to some big bucks so we decided to save the District money and look for an alternative

Figure 3 shows our solution The charger was fully automatic for 6 volt batteries allowing them to be left connected without fear of overshycharging The alligator clips on the end of the output wires were reshymoved and replaced with female crimp-on connectors The positive connector was painted with red liqshyuid electrical tape to make it easy to identify A pig tail for charging up to four battery packs was conshy

structed to allow gang chargshying The polarized plugs were connected to the pig tail so that the exposed male portion of the plug was conshynected to the red or positive wire from the charger

To charge multiple battery packs the pig tail was disconshynected from the charger and the batteries connected to the pig tail for 24 hours This alshylowed the batteries to equalshyize or reach a common volt-


age If this equalization was not done only one battery the one with the highest starting voltage would receive a full charge At the end of the equalization period the pig tail was connected to the charger the charger set to the correct voltage for the batteries to be charged the charge method switch set to autoshymatic for maintenance free battershyies and the charger turned on Deshypending on the initial charge on the batteries recharging time ranged from a couple of hours to overnight Since the charger shut off once full charge was reached there was no need to monitor the batteries and disconnect the charger manually Batteries could be left on the charger indefinitely and would reshymain at peak charge without damshyage

Trap Modifications

Now we had nice battery packs that were fully charged but we needed traps that solved the probshylems mentioned earlier Our vershysion of the John Hock 512 trap pictured next to a standard one (Fig 4) Figure 5 shows the modificashytions in more detail

The fan motor had small holes in the top which allowed sandflies to enter and clog the motor This was prevented by applying a small amount of silicon caulk to each of

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Figure 4 the holes We used only a little caulk in each hole since too much could stop the motor faster than the sandflies

A rubber band around the top of the trap body was used to hold tubshying from a C0

2 tank A steel wire

loop an idea borrowed from Dan Kline of the USDA was used to hold a vial of octenol

The most visible change to the trap was the use of an inverted funshynel to prevent water from entering the collection jar This idea came from the John Hock Co and is availshyable on the latest version of their

rotator trap The funnel was approxishymately 8 inches in diameter at the wide end The narrow end of the funnel was cut off leaving a hole the same dishyameter as the body of the trap The brackets for the cover of the trap and the fan motor were removed which al shylowed the funnel to be placed over the top of the trap and

slid down to the bottom A couple pieces of duct tape served to seal out water where the top of the funshynel met the trap body

Separator

We called the large jar arrangeshyment on the bottom of the trap a separator It seemed like a good name since that was what it did -separate the mosquitoes from the sandflies in our collections (Fig 6)

The main components were two large plastic jars with screw-on lids One jar had a hole drilled in the bottom to accept the threaded porshytion of a one pint plastic jar with Mason jar threads The threaded portion of a plastic Mason jar was cut off inserted in the hole and hot glue used to hold the two together The threads extended out from the bottom of the large jar and were screwed into the trap

Holes were cut in the center of the lids for both jars The holes were sized so that a lip of approxi shymately 516 inch measured from inside the lid remained after the center of the lid was removed A round piece of 18 x 16 mesh metal screen was cut with a diameter slightly less than that of the jar lid A sandwich was made with the screen between the two jar lids with lid tops facing the screen The screen was held in place and the lids held together with hot glue and three pop rivets spaced in a trianshygular pattern A bead of hot glue was used around the outside of the lids where they joined together and on the inside where the lids met the screen These beads of glue preshyvented specimens and water from getting between the lids and screen

For use the separator first had a piece of Vapona Strip suspended in the unmodified jar The double lid unit was then screwed onto the jar The other jar was inverted and screwed onto the other side of the


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One might be asking the quesshytion what do mosquitoes have to do with this thing called the Internet which I hear about all the time now Surprisingly there is a wealth of inshyformation about mosquitoes and other relevant topics available to anyone willing to spend some time searching for it on the Internet Subshyjects range from information on available products to use in larvicidshying andor adulticiding aquatic inshysect identification weather data water table data the list is endless The weather links are especially important to the mosquito professhysional from forecasting upcoming weather events to accessing data on events that have already ocshycurred There are also links to such areas as pesticide information proshyfiles and where to find a MSDS for any available product

One has to be careful to recogshynize the Internet for what it is a tool to be used for information collection and distribution not a shelter for antisocial and degenerative purshyposes I urge you to access the Internet yourself and dont let anyshyone decide for you if there is a place for it in our society You will be surshyprised at the amount of information and subjects that are to be found today (with many more being added monthly) Before I tell you about some links that might be of interest to you I would like to give a brief explanation about the Internet and its tools

Internet a global network of comshyputers that can be accessed from your computer using a modem and an ISP

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WWW World Wide Web the part of the Internet with colorful graphics sound animation and inshyteractive areas Also called the Web

Modem the hardware required in your computer to call the ISP Speeds range from 14400 bps (minimum) to 38800 bps The higher the number the faster

Browser the software needed to access the Internet The two inshydustry standards right now are Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Explorer Most ISPs will provide a browser and you may upgrade if you choose

URL Uniform Resource Locashytor AKA the address This must be entered preciselv with care taken for punctuation spelling and upperlower case values ie (httpwwwcocacolacom)

Search Engine a program found on the Internet which allows you to enter any word or phrase to find the information you are seeking (some popular ones are Webcrawler Yashyhoo and AltaVista)

Link a part of the Web page usually highlighted in color and unshyderlined that will forward you to anshyother part of that page or to another Web site altogether This is also called a hyperlink

E-mail short for electronic mail Once you open an Internet account you will be provided with an eshymailaddress suchas johnsmithabccom Lower case letters are the norm and spaces are not allowed There are also free eshymail programs available for those without Internet access (a modem is still needed)

Download to access files or programs from other computers on the Internet and install them on your own PC (or Mac)

These are a few terms that you will come across as you weave your way around the Internet The learnshying curve is not too steep and with an unlimited access type of acshycount you can spend time rooting around without worrying about rackshying up huge middotbills Take your time dont get middotfrustrated and be ready for a wealth of information to be availshyable to you Make sure your ISP has a local phone number for you as well to keep the phone bills down Once you find how captivating the Internet can be you may want to have a dedicated line (reserved solely for the PC) installed for your computer That way you can downshyload files (some take up to 2 hours or more) surf the Net all night and not be concerned that you are missshying an important phone call Believe it or not the hours can pass quite quickly and other chores or errands are often put aside until later Take my advice use a comfortable chair and consider an alarm clock to rouse you out of the hypnotic trance that sometimes occurs with web surfing


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Weather Links

http banzai n eosoft com citylinkblaketropicalhtml

Devoted to Atlantic Tropical Weather but has data from around the region The site to access for hurricane related info for the East Coast

httph20usgsgov Regional and state site for

the USGS links to NAWDEX (Nashytional Data Exchange) USGS Fact Sheets USGS State Reps etc

httpwwwnwiinccomwxdir indexhtml

Links to various sites Weather Channel international weather climate info NOAA

httprs560clmsueduweather interactive htrnl id=owd

Michigan State University -enter a station ID (from a list) and get the current weather conditions good satellite and radar images

httpwww hwr arizona edu hydro_linkhtml

Links to NASA NOAA land surface characteristics hydrology climate changes various datashybases servers and search engines

InsectPesticide Links

httpaceorsteduinfoextoxnet A cooperative effort by the

University of California-Davis Orshyegon State University Michigan State University amp Cornell Univershysity Specific information on pestishycides toxicology information etc

httpwww chem u ky edureshysourcesmsds html

Locate a MSDS on almost any substance Links to many Unishyversity servers and other networks

http wwwinsectsorgphotos macro1 html

50+ color photographs of insects ranging from butterflies to grasshoppers

httpimclisdk12 miusmsc1 I invertinverts htm I

Line drawings of some comshymonly found aquatic insects

httpwwwentiastateeduList Iowa State Entomology Dashy

tabase of insect related resources on the Internet

httpwwwpubliciastateedu - entomology amcaamca html

Temporary home page of the American Mosquito Control Asshysociation Some history and links to some specific pictures of mosquishytoes

http www-rci rutgers edu -inshysectsnjmos htm

A well laid out site with some important information also some links to other sites

httpwww-rci rutgers edu-inshysectsnjmcahtm

NJMCA home page Home page of the New Jershy

sey Mosquito Control Association Information on the history of NJMCA functions etc

httpusermaasnet- cpmc LMCA

Home page of the Louisiana Mosquito Control Association Hisshytory of LMCA upcoming events links to other sites

httpwwwnwmvcaorg NWMVCA

Home page of the Northshywest Mosquito and Vector Control Association NWMVCA mission statement bylaws minutes of past meetings and links to other sites


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Dr Stanton Copes fine article on yellow fever in the winter 1996 Wing Beats covered almost all the bases As a loyal son of New Jersey I would be remiss if I did not point out the role of Clara Louise Maass a contract nurse from Newark who volunteered to be bitten by Stegoshymyia Miss Maass was the only woman and the only American volshyunteer to die 24 August 1901 in the search for the carrier of yellow fever Her contribution was acshyknowledged by General William C Gorgas who said Miss Maass was a most excellent nurse who died as a result of the mosquito bite Large sums of money and many lives have been saved and will continue to be saved by this discovery of the manner of the propagation of yelshylow fever

In 1976 the Proceedings of the sixty-third annual meeting of the New Jersey Mosquito Control Asshysociation were dedicated to the Memory of Clara Louise Maass (1876-1901) Who Took the Ultishymate Risk to Serve Science and Mankind

1enriJ R Rupp North Brunswick New Jersey

Oops Sorry Stan

In Stan Copes article Yellow Feshyver - The Scourge Revealed we were remiss to acknowledge the slide on page 14 The Conquerors of Yellow Fever was reproduced with the permission of Wyth-Ayerst Laboratories

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THERMAL AEROSOL FOGGING (HOT FOGGING) Apply Culcideth 500 diluted with Blammos Best Thermal Fog Oil deodorized kerosene clean motor oil or diesel fuel oil and suitable thermal fogging equipment Use at recommended rates of 00001 to 0007 pounds of Hypermethrin per acre Use greatly reduced flow rates or increased dilution rates when you wish to minimize mosquito mortality or give the appearance of mosquito control at a much more affordable cost Do not exceed the maximum rates even if the boss says so Do not wet foliage as oil formulations may be phytotoxic Do not fog when the National Weather Service issues a tornado or hurricane watch or warning Use a clean well maintained and properly calibrated fogger and wear clean

underwear Fog down wind because it is aerodynamically and meterologically impossible to fog upwind

ULTRA LOW VOLUME NON-THERMAL AEROSOL FOGGING (COLD FOGGING) Culicideth 500 is recommended for application as an ultra low volume (UL V) nonthermal aerosol (cold fog) to control adult mosquitoes in residential and non-residential areas where these insects are a nuisance such as but not limited to National parks State parks County parks City parks car parks althleticfields golf courses of course volleyball courts supreme courts municipalities principalities playgrounds campgrounds but not coffee grounds on the grounds that this is taking a bad pun too far so please stop this right now Do not apply this product within 3333 yards (30000 millimeters) of lakes and streams but not ponds or canals Do not allow spraytreatmentto drift on pastureland cropland Disneyland Epcot poultry ranges firing ranges or water supplies For best results treat when mosquitoes are most active

and weather conditions are conducive to keeping the fog close to the ground Repeat treatment as needed

Culicideth 500 ULV applications To control mosquitoes Midges Blackflies Dog Flies Yellow Flies and Pop Flies apply Culicideth 500 using any standard ULV ground applicator with an accurate flow meter capable of ensuring the proper flow rate and of producing a nonthermal aerosol spray with droplets ranging in size from 5 to 30 microns and a mass median diameter (MMD) of 10 to 20 microns Admit it you have absolutely no idea what were talking about right Apply undiluted at a flow rate of 35 to 286 fluid ounces per minute at an average vehicle speed of 10 mph with a swath width of 300 feet using a vehicle with 4 big round tires If a different vehicle speed is used adjust rate accordingly if you can do the

math otherwise ask someone else to explain this to you

AS A BARRIER SPRAY USING A BACKPACK ULV UNIT (BARRIER SPRAY BY BACKPACK FOGGING) For use in ULV portable backpack equipment that is attached to your back Apply Culicideth 500 with equipment adjusted to deliver ULV particles of 50 to 100 microns MMD Use 57 fluid ounces of undiluted spray per acre equal to 005 lbs A I per acre) as a 1666 yard (15000 mm) swath while walking along at walking speed

PROHIBITION OF AERIAL APPLICATION IN FLORIDA Not for aerial application in Florida without the specific authorization of the Florida Department of Agriculture amp Consumer Services the Florida Department of Environmental Protection the Florida Department of Redundancy Department and the Florida Department of Excessive Regulations

STORAGE AND DISPOSAL Do not contaminate water food feed or junk food snacks by storage or disposal Store product in its orig inal container in a cool dry locked place designated for insecticides and out of the reach of children Avoid exposure to extreme temperatures unless you live in Florida in which case avoid exposure to high humidity In case of spillage soak up with absorbent material such as sawdust or kitty litter sweep up and place in labeled container and dispose of as follows Pesticide Disposal Wastes resulting from the use of this product may be disposed of on site or at an approved wastes disposal facility whichever is closer Container Disposal (Metal) Triple rinse or equivalent Then offer for recycling or reconditioning or puncture and dispose of in a sanitary landfill or by other approved State and local procedures (Plastic) Ditto or if allowed by State and local authorities by burning If burned stay out of (cough) smoke

DISCLAIMER No trademark brand name or manufacturer is intended to be endorsed implied implicated or ridiculed by this faux specimen label which has been fabricated for the benefit of an exercise in following adulticide label directions

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OK say its February 1951 Imagine yourself a hot-shot fighter pilot Top Gun if you like and you are about to be transferred into the Korean war theater You know you will have to survive 100 missions before you get transferred out You will be facing the biggest danger of your life and you know that some who went before you didnt make the 100 You re tough youre strong willed youre the best the US has to offer youre ready to go and youre ready to kick So when you read your new orders to ship out it is with some disbelief It says you should report to Mosquito Control immediately upon arrival Can that be right The reality was that it was right Only mosquito control in Koshyrea at that time wasnt what the avshyerage person thinks of today

The Korean War Mosquitoes were the airborne and ground comshybat controllers They were and are the proud men of the 6147th Tactishycal Control Group attached to the 5th US Air Force Their main job was to do aerial reconnaissance and tell the fighters where the tarshygets were The Air Force maitre d of air to ground combat if you like

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The 6147th was born of the Koshyrean conflict It has no counterpart in any military operations prior to Korea and it was a necessary byshyproduct of the introduction of jet-proshypelled aircraft as a close support weapon During the first weeks of the war it became apparent that some faster and better method of identifying targets and directing fighter strikes was needed The forshyward air controllers with their radioshyequipped jeeps were not able to do the job alone because their range of operation was too small and comshymunications equipment was scarce Battlefield conditions were conshystantly changing Some new method was needed to cope with the problems created by high shyspeeds and fuel limitations of the jets Enter the Mosquitoes

The Mosquito air squadrons conshyducted their operations principally from T-6s and C-47s The ground squadron provided forward air conshytrol teams in radio control jeeps Incoming fighters contacted one of the Mosquitoes C-47s each of which had 10 radio operators that worked 12 hours shifts When the

fighter contacted the C-47 they were assigned a mosquito that marked their targets Incidently C-47s are the military version of the DC-3 that several mosquito control program still use for aerial application of mosquitocides

Initially mosquito pilots in small liaison planes had to be content to merely circle the area and attempt to indicate a target by pointing a wing Later observers dropped flares by hand on targets Eventushyally Mosquito pilots were flying Silshyver T-6s called the Texan manushyfactured by North American Aviashytion The T-6s were equipped with 12 smoke rockets mounted under the wings and fired in the same manner as the fighters fired their live rockets Some Mosquitoes would even divemiddot on targets with their landshying lights on to pinpoint the enemy in semidarkness of late afternoon They flew a monthly average of 1 140 effective sorties

The Reds gave the Mosquitoes their name Early in the war capshytured communist soldiers said they were convinced that the T -6s which

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buzzed their lines had a secret lisshyt~~ing device to ferret out their poshysltlons Pnsoners complained that ~eh1nd each inquisitive T-6 came a line of stinging fighter-bombers so they dubbed the annoying little airshyplane the Mosquito

Mosquitoes spotted marked directed and controlled against evshyery conceivable type of target for over 100000 United Nations aircraft ~rom B-29~ to helcopters including Jet an~ rec1procat1ng engine aircraft The a1rcraft were manned by pilots from ma~y uN nations including Great Bnta1n Australia Canada Fra~ce The Philippine Republic Thailand Turkey Greece the Nethshye~lands Columbia Ethiopia Belshyglum Luxembourg New Zealand and the Union of South Africa

The Mosquitoes were instrumenshytal in the destruction of 8 commushynist infantry divisions totaling more t~an 1 00000 troops 5 tank divishySIOns 37 artillery battalions 2 antishyaircraft ~ivisions 5000 vehicles 12 locomotives 62 bridges and hunshydreds of automatic weapons The ~ 14 7th is one of the few organizashytions awarded both the US and Koshyrean Presidential Citations during the Korean conflict

It was for good reason that the Mosquitoes were known as The ~yes of the Fifth Air Force by the fighter-bomber pilots and The ~atch-dogs of the front by the front line combat troops An unknown combat correspondent reported from the war zone that the most dangerous job in all of the Korean War is the work given to the T-6 Mosquito airborne and ground comshybat crews

In addition to spotting targets t~ey also directed and controlled th~ f1ghters after the air strike began The Mosquitoes directed field artilshylery and naval gunfire frequently on coastal targets They controlled air drops did reconnaissance and took

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air photos They assisted in helishycopter pick-ups evacuated personshynel dropped leaflets acted as reshylay for the peace conferences dropped mail and PX supplies t~ ground controllers and worked with voice in psychological warfare

Its been almost 50 years since the unit was disbanded in 1958 but you wouldnt know it You see the Mosquitoes now have reunion~ evshyery ~ew years the last being in Bosshyton n 1996 At the reunion held in Florida in 1994 there were 327 Mosshyquitoes family members and friends They also have an assoshyciation called what else the Mosshyquito Association and it puts out a n~wsletter called are you ready for th1s The Mosquito News That is not the end of the coincidences The Mosquitoes 1994 reunion was at the Sandestin Resort in Floridas Panhandle The week before the fJio~quitoes of Florida as i~ the Flonda Mosquito Control Associashytion held their annual meeting at the same hotel Something tells me the Florida Panhandle was spared some permanent damage that month when the two mosquito woups ddnt overlap Can you 1mag1ne B1ll Opp Jim Robinson and ~ohn M_ulrenn~n Jr exchanging mosqu1to war stories with those

boys from Korea

If you think the Mosquitoes wi ll fade into history think again The ranks of the original Mosquitoes are

being replaced by heredity memshybers The DAR may well have a similar group the Sons and Daughshyters of the Mosquitoes of Korea

~he Mosquitoes were made up of a1r and ground forces Pilots were rotated after 1 00 sorties but the ground crews had 1-year tours of duty One of those ground crew member~ an Electronics Equipshyment Mamtenance Specialist was SSGT Alan J Reiter of New York state Alan and his wife Delores now reside in Lake City Florida Alan and his Mosquito buddy -~lc John Zale from Wantaugh NY are the sources for this story AI was in Korea from December of 1951 through January of 1953 and John was there from March of 52 to Febshyruary of _53 ~ut both are Mosquishytoes for life AI s son Bruce is also a Mosquito from the new brood a lifetime heredity member

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Yes Virginia there are bad mosshyquitoes but there are also good mosquitoes And there were none better than the Mosquitoes of Koshyrea We salute them all ~

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If brother isnt watching over your shoulder now he will be soon Two forces are driving us to a situation where your employer will know where you are and how long youve been there The first force is the ever increasing pressure on public agencies for accountability to the taxpayer The second is the future affordability of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology

About four years ago my father and I had a conversation about the future of GPS technology My fashyther being in the defense industry for his whole career made the statement that the handheld GPS units of that day costing more than $1000 would end up costing less than $100 He pointed to the handheld calculator situation of the 1970s and I believed his logic and experience True to form we now find handheld GPS units around $200 and the slide continues

Now for my prediction within the next five years there will be GPS recording units being put into any pesticide applying vehicle used for mosquito control At less than $100 a copy how could any employer resist Think about a unit that colshylects time and location every three

seconds or less within 10 feet all day long The cassette gets pulled from the vehicle at the end of the day or night and the contents dumped into a Geographic Informashytion System (GIS) in a desktop PC There will be a record of every stop break and detour These units will be in aircraft as well as ground apshyplication equipment The unit will be able to show when the applicashytion equipment is on and off The technology is available today and only cost and inaccuracy are preshyventing wide scale use Rumors are floating around that the US Departshyment of Defense will soon drop the code that will improve accuracy from +- 300 ft to less than 10 ft Currently you can get around this utilizing differential signals from the Coast Guard towers or set up a base of your own at considerable cost

Real time locating and recording systems are currently available in some big metro areas The use of 800mHz radio technology will inshycrease the potential for more sysshytems to develop Real-time will alshylow you to locate employees and direct them for a desired response This technology seems to be conshysiderably more expensive and will

probably not make it into very many mosquito control programs

Think of the impact this informashytion could have on your operation More accurate pesticide application records especially ground and aerial ULV data Data to validate or disprove a citizens complaint about not being sprayed What about the employees and their proshyductivity You will know where they stopped sprayed and other activishyties with their vehicle It should proshyvide some really good information for larviciding and inspection records Will they not feel like the trust is gone They sure will but the technology will win out as it alshymost always does

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The introduction of 22-bis-(pshychlorophenyl-1 1-trichloroethane -otherwise known as DDT-during the latter part of the Second World War gave us hope of fulfilling the dream of a life without insect-borne disshyeases It guaranteed the eradication of malaria vectors from the malarishyous areas of the world and eventushyally all other vector-borne diseases DDT was so promising and innocushyous to humans that it was applied in large quantities throughout the malarious areas in an effort to treat every conceivable location where the vectors might hide Unfortushynately this proved to be a fantasy as some of the most important vecshytors and other ilsect pests quickly developed resistance to it Later it was found to be too persistent in the environment and harmful to nonshytarget organisms In light of this chemical manufacturers dedicated their efforts and capital towards proshyducing environmentally friendlier and more selective insecticides apshyplied at a fraction of the application rate of earlier generations The newer botanicals for instance are normally applied at a rate of a few ounces per acre in the form of mishycroscopic sprays known as ultra low volume whereas the application rate of early insecticide generations was in the neighborhood of three hundred liters per acre

The decreasing effectiveness of the current arsenal of antimicrobial agents and insecticides has reshyceived a lot of attention Some of the conditions generating the most fear and trepidation among the genshyeral public and some public health workers include AIDS drug-resisshytant tuberculosis and the Ebola vi-

rus However these three are but a few of the many potential examples

During the past decade dengue yellow fever and malaria have afshyfected large portions of Central and South America getting progresshysively worse with the passage of time Dengue fever alone for inshystance infected three hundred thousand people in Central America one hundred thousand in the Caribbean Basin and half a million in Asia during the first half of 1996

The figures for malaria are even more impressive The World Health Organization estimates the number of malaria cases around the tropishycal and subtropical areas of the globe to be in the neighborhood of fifteen million a year with an annual death toll somewhere between one and a half to two million for the same period This situation is expected to deteriorate rather than improve during the next decade

The United States is by no means immune to vector-borne disshyeases During the past handful of years reports of Americans with no history of travel outside the contishynental United States acquiring mashylaria and dengue fever are becomshying more common

Yellow fever for instance is making a strong comeback in parts of Africa and South America In the United States it was first docushymented in New York City in 1668 killing many during the summer and fall of that year In September a General Day of Humiliation was proclaimed by Governor Francis

Lovelace as many citizens died daily and many others were sick with the fever Later in 1699 yellow fever ravaged the city of Charlesshyton South Carolina killing approxishymately five percent of the populashytion It wasnt until the cold air masses of winter covered the city and killed the vector that the outshybreak subsided

It resurfaced again in New York City (1702 1743 1745 1795) Charleston South Carolina (1706 1728 1732 1792-1799 1862) Philadelphia Pennsylvania (1793) and New Haven Connecticut (1794) The most severe yellow feshyver epidemic episode in North America occurred in cities and towns between the Mississippi and Ohio River-Valleys in the year beshytween 1878 and 1879 when apshyproximately 100000 cases were reported with at least 20000 of these cases resulting in fatalities

In 1898 Dr Walter Reed and Dr Carlos Finlay while investigating what was a curious association beshytween yellow fever outbreaks and an increase in mosquito populations in Havana Cub demonstrated that the disease was indeed transmitted by a particular species of the Steshygomyia mosquito (now known as Aedes aegypt1) In 1904 Dr Willshyiam C Gorgas who had worked with Dr Reed in Havana used this discovery in Panama to reduce the incidence of vector-borne diseases among Panama Canal construction workers Had it not been for the findshyings of Dr Walter Reed and Dr Carlos Finlay and the foresight of Dr


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Gorgas completion of the Panama Canal would have probably been postponed several years with an incalculable cost in human lives

Dengue first appeared in the United States in Savannah Georshygia in the autumn of 1826 and again in August of 1828 This disease also known as breakbone fever is characterized by agonizing pain in the bones joints and muscles and sharp headaches and retro-orbital pain limiting the victim to bed rest It returned with impunity between July of 1850 in Charleston South Carolina spreading into Savannah and Augusta Georgia and New Orshyleans Louisiana by August By fall Dengue cases were reported from Mobile Alabama spreading quickly along the gulf coast into Galveston Texas by October 1850 It then conshytinued south to Matagorda and Brownsville on the Texas-Mexico border before subsiding Mobile Alabama was hit again in 1854 In 1873 40000 New Orleans resishydents were reported suffering the efshyfects of this debilitating disease New Orleans along with Charlesshyton Augusta Savannah and sevshyeral other smaller cities experienced another epidemic between 1878 and 1880 Galveston and Austin Texas were afflicted by another dengue fever epidemic from 1885 to 1886

Between 1829 and 1833 a catashystrophic epidemic of a malaria-like disease erupted among native Americans residing in what today is California Oregon and Washington State killing an estimated 150000 Malaria later became the second most common disease in bivouac sites and military camps during the American Civil War (April 1861-June 1865) occurring in virtually every territory but more intensely in the south It not only killed many but it weakened thousands leaving them prone to other diseases and further attacks and relapses

Among Union troops over 13 milshylion cases and over ten thousand deaths were reported

Vector-borne disease epidemics became less frequent in the United States by the latter part of the Nineshyteenth Century coincidental with progress in medical science a vacshycine against yellow fever was deshyveloped antimalarial medications improved and newer and more powerful antibiotics and pesticides were developed and produced alshylowing for the amelioration of the pain and suffering and providing limited protection against some of these illnesses

However what makes this counshytry so seemingly immune to these and other vector-borne diseases involves many different conditions but can be best summarized with two terms a) organized mosquito control b) the subd ivis ion

Had it not been for active and methodical mosquito control few subtropical areas of the United States and several temperate arshyeas would be inhabitable only to creatures like the American alligashytor or the American Bison Anyone who has camped in or near the Florida Everglades or anywhere in the High Plains in spring can visushyalize what is meant by this stateshyment In both areas the mosquito populations are so thick thei r swarms can be heard from several feet away In Texas for example there have been reports of mosquito populations being so large as to exsanguinating cattle or lodge in their wind pipes in sufficient numshybers to suffocate them

Organized urbanization also plays a key role in vector-borne disshyease prevention by modifying the environment conducive for mosshyquito breeding and facilitating the application of insecticides targeting the adult and larval stages Ironically

urbanization is closely associated with explosive spread of some vecshytor-borne diseases like dengue

In the United States vector mosshyquito populations have not been destroyed but rather displaced by man through urbanization That is until the Asian Tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus was discovered in Texas about ten years ago This mosquito lives in close association with humans breeding in anything that would hold water for more than four or five days It is an aggressive day biter searching and locating its prey during the hours of the day that render conventional mosquito conshytrol methods ineffective and makshying it very difficult to control What is more important it is capable of transmitting both dengue and yelshylow fever though not simultashyneously

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We should learn from the misshytakes made by those currently batshytling these scourges brought by mosquitoes further our involvement and participation in international proshygrams dealing with them and coshyoperate with agencies like the World Health Organization Pan-American Health Organization the US Agency for International development and others in their efforts to improve the quality of life of those living in regions under the yoke of the mosquito Only th is way can we provide a venue through which we can preshypare ourselves and prevent history from repeating itself

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Mayfly

In the spring just as the ice is disappearing from the inner reaches of the northeastern wetland large numbers of the mayfly nymph begin to fill the dipper with their rhythshymically undulating abdominal gills Why they call these aquatic inhabitshyants mayflies is beyond me for most are on the wing in April (maybe noshybody told them)

Along with the mayflies and in slightly less stagnant water is the stonefly larvae It is more commonly found in the same habitats as the dreaded blackfly larvae (You have to be quicker than the trout if you want to see one of these)

Dragontly

Less commonly found _ but always a thrill when ( captured in the dipper is the dragonfly and damshyselfly nymphs We should develop a strong bond with these creatures because they share a common interest in wiping out mosshyquito larvae Though their ineffecshytiveness in controlling large numbers of mosquitoes is evident their efshyforts should be applauded Of intershyest is the dragonflys ability to expel water from the rectum for rapid esshycape (never try this at home withshyout proper training)

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As mentioned above the caddisfly also shares the aquatic habitat with the mosquito I find the varied styles of case makshying intriguing and wonder why some species use pebbles while others use leaves (Does one know someshything the other doesnt or does the pebble siding company do more adshyvertising)

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Water Strider

I could go on forever describing the diving beetles the whirligig 1 beetles the back swim- middot mers the water striders ( I would love to be able as a mosquito conshytrol officer to walk on water life would be so much simpler) the gishyant water bugs (sounds like a class B horror flick they bite by the way just found that out recently) and many many more One of my favorites is the springtail which is sometimes called the snow bug in New England because of the large numbers frequently found on snow during warm winter days

Lets not forget the annelids such as the horsehair worm and everyones favorite the leech (which brings out as much fear as Jaws in many people- usually resulting in a hasty retreat out of the wetland)

The flatworms are well represhysented in the dipper by the laborashytory favorite planaria

Hydra

Finally I recently found examples of freshshywater sponges and hydras That made my day I have read about freshwater examples of these but had always thought they were goshying the same route as the freshwashyter mussel As a kid I used to fish by the old mill site in Walpole Masshysachusetts but spent most of my time investigating the mussel beds down stream Most of the mussels are gone now but I can report that I have seen more in recent years which I hope is a sign of recovery

There are so many fascinating creatures inhabiting the New Enshygland wetlands So many that I could never mention them all But

the next time you go out dipping take a little closer look at what else is out there Many times I will take my trusty cleaned-out peanut butter jar (my hi-tech low-cost laboratory colshylecting device) with me and bring back some of these inhabitants to show anyone interested You would be surprised how interested the commoner will be I have often brought samples along with me when visiting the various school systems across Norfolk County The students in the elementary schools are especially impressed Seeing them eyeball to eyeball with these creatures brings back the memories I have of sliding across the ice in my back yard pond followshying the travels of my newest find unshyder the frozen wodd of the New Enshygland winter

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double lid unit The separator unit was then screwed onto the trap in the field

Processing of the samples was much simpler when using the sepashyrator The majority of sandflies were in the lower jar while most of the mosquitoes were in the upper jar With high numbers of mosquitoes separation was not as efficient but light agitation of the separator would still cause most of the sandflies to fall to the bottom jar

Recommendations

After a full summer of use we were quite pleased with the amount of work the separator saved us There were however a couple of

things that we would recommend you change if you plan to try this system First make sure that the large jars you select to use can be glued The jars we used were of a type of plastic that just could not be glued well This caused the glue joint between the upper jar and the t

Mason jar threads to separate if too much pressure was applied when _ installing or removing the separate~ from the trap We would also recommend a slightly finer mesh screen between the upper and lower jars since smaller mosquitoes were able to get through the current screen

Possibly of more importance to your boss is the cost of the plastic Mason jars which are cut up so that the threads can be used It seems

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We hope that our experiences will be of some help to you in your efforts to work smarter Feel free to borrow any of the ideas we present here and pass them on to your friends We ask only one thing of you - if the idea works it was ours if it doesnt work it was yours If you have any good ideas for workshying smarter send them in to the editors of Wing Beats so the rest of us lazy folks can use them too


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(iCLARKE An Open Letter To Our Colleagues And Friends In 11osquito Control

For over SO years Clarke has been committed to offering you the finest products and services in our industry And the equipment we featured Only the toughest most reliable machines that our own staff pushed to the limits every day

Like you we counted on the legendary quality of LECO equipment and the cutting-edge innovation of ConnerNecTec machines to get our work done When it became very clear to us that each of these fine lines of equipment might not be available to our staff and yours in the near future we had a tough decision to make

The result Clarke Engineering Technologies was born Did we ever intend to get into the equipment end of the business No In fact in the past we have purposely distanced ourselves from it Are we excited to be selling our own spray equipment now Absolutely

We are proud that we have been able to pick up all the warranties and spare parts inventories We are proud that David middotwaldron and Larry Conner are joining us and bringing their innovative ideas to the Clarke organization middot And we are especiallymiddot proud to be able to merge this quality and innovation into the Clarke Engineering Technologies full line of equipment

Veve worked very hard to earn your trust over the last SO years Year 51 will be no different

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The Collier Mosquito Control Disshytrict located in southwest Florida has been involved in a large reshysearch project involving the use of a number of John Hoch 512 traps The trap presented a number of problems during use and caused a considerable amount of what we considered to be unnecessary work Following our policy of work smart we came up with a number of modifications to the trap and its manner of use which reduced our work load and improved the quality of our collections

Most of the modifications deshyscribed we think are original Howshyever its inevitable that some of these ideas have been borrowed from other mosquito control workshyers Where we know this to be the case we have tried to give the proper credit Hopefully some of these ideas will help you in your surveillance and research operashytions A list of suppliers for some of the parts and equipment used is provided at the end of the article

The Problems

1 Rain water in the collection jars which made it difficult to sepashyrate sandflies from mosquitoes and identify the specimens

2 Sandflies and mosquitoes mixed in the collection jar needed to be separated by processing the collections

3 Sandflies clogging up the trap motor by crawling through small holes in the top making it run harder and eventually burn up

4 Changing of trap batteries was required much too frequently when using a single 6 volt battery on traps running continuously Transporting charging and changshying batteries became a major chore

5 Corrosion of battery termishynals and connectors from rain and salt air Ruined batteries dead traps and poor connections between trap and battery resulted in lost time which we hoped to avoid

6 Non-polarized connections between trap and battery Be honshyest now havent you at least once plugged the trap into the battery so that the fan ran backwards We have and it was frustrating to say the least

7 Expensive manual battery chargers This was a problem beshycause of the number of batteries being used Reshyversed polarity when connecting batteries to charger uneven charging of batteries and the need to manually switch the chargers from full to trickle charge were some of the probshylems encountered Add that on top of a price of over $100 per charger and we come up with anshyother problem that

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we hoped to eliminate

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To solve many of our battery reshylated problems we devised the batshytery pack shown in Fig 1 Battery packs were composed of four 10 amp 6 volt sealed batteries Short lengths of wire with female crimpshyon connectors were used to connect the batteries together negative to negative and positive to positive

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A Different

Breed Of

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IN US 800-220-0787 OTHER CALLS 215-721-9424

FAX 215-721-0751






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Essential for

middot




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Chill T abf
























711~ 8ea-U Spring 1997 21


A Different

Breed Of

middot---



FACTORY DIRECT



IN US 800-220-0787 OTHER CALLS 215-721-9424

FAX 215-721-0751






Virtually Dust-Free

BIODACreg ~







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-














Mayfly



Dragontly


Caddisfly ~~



Water Strider




Hydra








~


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Recommendations





AMMIAINC




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~~~~ad-~ ta~ ~~ad~ t4e ~ C44t

~~~~-

COVERAGES OFFERED

General Liabil ity




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Aviation Liability


































j










WereVWampR



1-800-888-4VWR


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A Different

Breed Of

middot---



FACTORY DIRECT



IN US 800-220-0787 OTHER CALLS 215-721-9424

FAX 215-721-0751






Virtually Dust-Free

BIODACreg ~







I

-














Mayfly



Dragontly


Caddisfly ~~



Water Strider




Hydra








~


Figure 5



Recommendations





AMMIAINC




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~~~~ad-~ ta~ ~~ad~ t4e ~ C44t

~~~~-

COVERAGES OFFERED

General Liabil ity




(941) 939-7303 FAX (941) 939-1485

Aviation Liability


































j










WereVWampR



1-800-888-4VWR


bull 33906










A Different

Breed Of

middot---



FACTORY DIRECT



IN US 800-220-0787 OTHER CALLS 215-721-9424

FAX 215-721-0751






Virtually Dust-Free

BIODACreg ~







I

-














Mayfly



Dragontly


Caddisfly ~~



Water Strider




Hydra








~


Figure 5



Recommendations





AMMIAINC




Figure 6

~~~~ad-~ ta~ ~~ad~ t4e ~ C44t

~~~~-

COVERAGES OFFERED

General Liabil ity




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Aviation Liability


































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AMMIAINC




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~~~~-

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Aviation Liability


































j










WereVWampR



1-800-888-4VWR


bull 33906










Mayfly



Dragontly


Caddisfly ~~



Water Strider




Hydra








~


Figure 5



Recommendations





AMMIAINC




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~~~~ad-~ ta~ ~~ad~ t4e ~ C44t

~~~~-

COVERAGES OFFERED

General Liabil ity




(941) 939-7303 FAX (941) 939-1485

Aviation Liability


































j










WereVWampR



1-800-888-4VWR


bull 33906










Figure 5



Recommendations





AMMIAINC




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~~~~ad-~ ta~ ~~ad~ t4e ~ C44t

~~~~-

COVERAGES OFFERED

General Liabil ity




(941) 939-7303 FAX (941) 939-1485

Aviation Liability


































j










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