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Lemaringouin LeMaringouin July 2014 Inside this issue: Message from the President Greetings fellow mosquito control professionals! Well, the season has District News 2-6 finally started and we are off with a bang. Floodwater mosquitoes have been tough so far in all corners of the state. Vexans, sollicitans, pertur- Annual Meeting 7 bans, columbiae, ferox…..you name the species, and someone in the state has battled them in big numbers over the past month. Now we Things To Do 8 see WNV begin to peak its head out right on schedule. While the sea- New Orleans son started a little late and temperatures were mild early on, the sea- son is beginning to progress now in the normal form. Annual Meeting 9 Registration A new virus is in the news. To date we have had no locally transmitted cases, but have seen quite a few imported cases of Chikungunya virus across the U.S. The Code of Ethics 10 mosquito control professionals throughout the U.S. and especially here in Louisiana, are al- ways ready to face any challenge. Should the need arise, we will face this one successfully, too. Call For Papers 11 It is my honor to be associated with you all. You do a great job. LSU Arbovirus Lab 12 In addition to the duties of running mosquito control programs, your LMCA board members News have been working hard and doing great things for the association this year. Another very successful Mosquito Academy took place in New Orleans earlier this year. Claudia Riegel and the crew at the NOMTCB went above and beyond once again! We are also in the planning phase for the 2014 LMCA Annual Meeting and the 2015 AMCA meeting. Both of these meet- ings will be held in New Orleans. The AMCA Washington Days were a great success for our Louisiana group. Herff Jones and Dennis Wallette planned great meetings with our legislative leaders in D.C. Some ground breaking things are in the works. Dr. Kristin Healy will do some research projects in conjunc- tion with the districts, LMCA and LSU. I wish you all the very best as you work hard through the season. If there is ever anything I can do for you, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Sincerely, Patrick Sutton [email protected] 225-287-2120 Page 2 LeMaringouin District News Caddo Summer inspectors quickly learned to identify the old “head hunter“ Ps. ferox. They could be found throughout the parish woodland habitat areas. You know ferox are a The 2014 year in Caddo Parish started slow. The cool nuisance when residents call wanting you to spray for temperatures in March and April kept the mosquitoes their outdoor pets to have relief. down even though heavy rain produced high larval counts. Our seasonal people began the first week of I never thought Guy May as temperatures became warmer and the rain con- Faget would be flying tinued. Lee Peck, from KPLC television, in our air- These conditions resulted in more dense outbreak of plane for a news story mosquitoes, with rural areas hit the hardest. We had Guy Faget on aerial spraying for high numbers of Psorophora columbiae, Ps. ferox and Ps. mosquitoes. ciliata in the urban areas. The Aedes albopictus were very active causing a increase in public complaints. Lee did a good job on the evening news story and in- Adulticiding efforts proved ineffective due to the high cluded a couple of interview clips of Reagan Cook, one winds and excessive rain. Near the end of May as of our longtime contract pilots. Reagan is the chief pilot weather gave us a break, we started to spray the af- for Cameron Parish Mosquito Control. fected areas. The second week of June brought more heavy rain resulting in additional increase of mosquito control problems for us. Caddo Parish welcomes Willie Watts to replace Karen Nichols. Willie attended the LMCA workshop and is working well with us in his first mosquito season. Two seasonal workers resigned the first week of May causing a shortage of spray truck drivers, with one Reagan driver position remaining vacant. Cook We have caught plenty of Ae. vexans, Ps. columbiae and Ps. ferox. Ae. albopictus continues to be a problem in Caleb Ardizzone, a McNeese summer intern, is work- urban areas. Our gravid trap collection has been down, ing on a summer project to test several types of mos- but we have collected enough for testing. quito traps with Biogents AG lures. Biogents AG is a German company which develops and tests insect attrac- tants, repellents and insecticide formulations, with special focus on mosquito control. Positive West Nile virus mosquito pools recently picked Calcasieu up on the east side of the state. So far this year we have not had a positive mosquito pool for any arbovirus. In Cool temperatures early in the season kept mosquito the last 12 years we have only had 2 years without a hu- population below average through May. If water and man case of WNV. It will be interesting to see what hap- mosquitoes are synonymous, then together they corre- pens in our area as the mosquito season progresses. lated with our June light trap collections being in the top 3 of the last 17 years. In June we received 14.5 inches of rainfall and the average is 6.8 inches. We were expecting a parish wide mosquito outbreak at times, but mosquito problems seemed to be more lo- calized. Coquillettidia and Ps. columbiae made up the ma- jority of mosquitoes collected in June, while Ae. sollici- tans was the main nuisance species. Page 3 LeMaringouin District News In recent weeks we have been participating with Dr. Cameron Kristen Healy and Dr. James Otea of LSU with an EPA granted project examining mosquito adulticides and hon- This year has been very slow until just recently and eybee mortality. We will continue collaborating on this even now the mosquitoes are not very bad except in a research in the fall, when wind conditions are more fa- few areas. Recent rains have caused a slight increase in vorable for cage testing. mosquito populations and we made a few flights before and after the fourth of July. We have not had any evi- Our Director, Dr. Todd Walker has been very busy dence of mosquito borne viruses so far this year. We guiding our new construction project through the various have been searching for a pilot to train with Reagan stages of approval and funding. We see great things hap- Cook and eventually take his place. We had a very pening in the next few years with our facilities! qualified applicant come down from Illinois to see our parish and talk to the board. We fed him lots of good We are happy to welcome Glen Wilkerson aboard as Cajun food, took him on a tour of the Creole Nature our new Aircraft Operations Manager. Glen is rap- Trail, and showed him good fishing and hunting spots idly familiarizing himself with aerial spray operations, but since he loves the outdoors. Hopefully he will accept his biggest challenge is learning to work within the our offer we made because he would be a great fit for “calcified” government system for procurement. our program. In other news we have added two new trucks to our fleet bringing our total to 10. We have Congratulations to James Rabb for his promotion to them housed in four different stations throughout the Spray System Servicer. We are certain our mechan- parish to help the drivers out and give people in differ- ics, Nathan Tircuit and Louis Square can use his help ent communities an opportunity to work for us without in the shop. We also want to congratulate Pest Con- travelling so far to come to work. They are equipped trol Inspector I, Khaty Faty on her new job in Code with monitor 4-s GPS systems and we have like, they Enforcement with the Department of Public Works, and have been an asset to our program. welcome the new part-time employees Josh Harness, Tiara Davis, and Sylvia Hill to the team. We also We are considering upgrading all of the monitor 4 units want to welcome back for their 23rd year, our teachers, to the new 4-s units, they have very useful new fea- Charlene Scott and Marilynn Payne who conduct tures. The updated card reader takes regular SD cards the summer education programs. and having a faster operating system. We also recently purchased a large goose neck trailer to aid in evacuating Last year we had very little West Nile virus activity in our chemical inventory in case of a hurricane. Hope- EBR Parish, but we anticipate that changing this year fully we will not need to use it until I am old and re- since we already have had two WNV positive mosquito tired. pools in during June. EBRPMARC Please visit our Facebook page to keep up with all of EBRPMARC’s activities. After a long, cold winter, we are definitely back in busi- ness. The floodwater populations have consistently https://www.facebook.com/pages/East-Baton-Rouge- been high from the frequent rain. Aedes vexans, Psoro- Parish-Mosquito-Abatement-and-Rodent- phora columbiae, and Psorophora ferox have been our Control/150040478370256 most common nuisance species in the light traps. Culex quinquefasciatus numbers are also increasing, particularly in areas where heavy rains have caused sewage over- flows into storm drains. In addition to their larviciding duties, our day crew is inspecting approximately 120 residences a day. We are working overtime on Satur- days to help address complaints from the large number of floodwater mosquitoes.
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