Join Chuck Lubelczyk to learn all about Mosquitoes of Maine at the 2025 MES Winter Workshop!
With the increased recognition of mosquito-borne disease apparent in the northeastern United States in the last decade, efforts to collect and characterize mosquitoes of public health and veterinary health significance have become a primary focus of vector biology work. This workshop will include key factors used in identifying those mosquitoes most relevant to human and animal health concerns and go over important pathogens transmitted by those mosquitoes in Maine.
Note! We will be hosting a silent auction this year. If you have entomology-related items (or time, such as teaching a skill) to donate, please start to think about them and gather things up to bring or to coordinate a pickup with Kathy Murray.
We are also havingh a slideshow to thank Dana Michaud and Roger Rittmaster for their time volunteering for MES. Please send me any fun stories and photos!
Register here, and then continue below for more information!
Event Image: Cs. melanura, male and female, showing the difference in size and presence of ‘bushy’ antennae on the male. MHIR VBDL (2024).
The event will be in-person at:
90 Blossom Ln, Augusta, ME 04330
Room 101 Deering Building
Parking is free, and come to the side door along the parking lot off of Blossom Lane.
Maine Entomological Society Winter Workshop:
Mosquitos of Maine
Saturday, January 25, 2025 (9AM-2:00PM)
$20 Cash or Check
Note: If you have a laptop and microscope please bring them, also we’re looking for folks to bring a pastry to share in the morning with coffee.
We are also hosting a silent auction to raise funds for the scholarship fund. Please feel free to bring along any items to donate.
9-9:30am- Welcome and introductions, browse silent auction.
9:30-11:30- Lecture on the biology and life history of mosquitos along with the important genera found in Maine
11:30 -Noon- Student research talks by Curtis Bartiromo – Chuck’s Technician, Alyssa Marini (UMaine) and Megan Schierer (UMaine)
Noon- 12:30- Break for Lunch (lunch won’t be provided so please bring your own) with slideshow thanking Dana Michaud and Roger Rittmaster, who recently stepped down, for their time and efforts on the MES Executive Committee.
12:30-2pm –The afternoon session will commence with a lecture about mosquito morphology and ID techniques working with specimens, please feel free to bring any you may have in your collections.
Chuck Lubelczyk
Biography:
Chuck Lubelczyk is a vector ecologist with the Maine Health Institute for Research who has worked on tick and mosquito-related disease issues in northern New England for over 20 years. He holds degrees in wildlife management and public health and is strongly interested in the intersection of wildlife health issues as they relate to human and domestic animals. He currently resides in a tick-infested region of Maine’s Midcoast on a small farm with his wife, Laura, a dog and several ungrateful cats.