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Spring 2012 <strong>Volume</strong> <strong>23</strong> <strong>Number</strong> 1 Editor-in-Chief Stephen L Sickerman 850-814-2610 sickerman@comcast.net Managing Editor Jack Petersen 850-866-9895 drjack3@hotmail.com Director of Advertising Dennis Moore 727-376-4568 dmoore@pascomosquito.org Circulation Editor Marin Brouillard <strong>23</strong>9-436-1000 marin@cmcd.org <strong>Wing</strong> <strong>Beats</strong> of the <strong>Florida</strong> <strong>Mosquito</strong> Control Association Associate Editors Dave Dame, Gainesville, FL CDR Eric Hoffman, Jacksonville, FL Thomas R Wilmot, Sanford, MI Eric Schreiber, Sarasota, FL Regional Editors Glenn Collett, Salt Lake City, UT Timothy D Deschamps, Northborough, MA William C Reinert, Northfield, NJ Thomas R Wilmot, Sanford, MI Editorial Review Board Doug Carlson, Indian River, FL C Roxanne Connelly, Vero Beach, FL Mustapha Debboun, Fort Sam Houston, TX Wayne Kramer, Baton Rouge, LA L Philip Lounibos, Vero Beach, FL Dennis Moore, Odessa, FL Steve Mulligan, Selma, CA John J Smith, Norwood, MA <strong>Florida</strong> <strong>Mosquito</strong> Control Association FMCA President Larry Hribar, Marathon, FL lhribar@keysmosquito.org FMCA Executive Director Shelly Redovan PO Box 61598 Fort Myers, FL 33906 1-855-OUR-FMCA redovan@lcmcd.org American <strong>Mosquito</strong> Control Association AMCA President Thomas R Wilmot, Sanford, MI twilmot@co.midland.mi.us AMCA Executive Director Sarah B Gazi 15000 Commerce Parkway, Suite C Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 856-439-9222 amca@mosquito.org <strong>Florida</strong>’s Frog-biting <strong>Mosquito</strong>es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 by Erik M Blosser and L Philip Lounibos Public PowerPoint Presentations and Pupae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 by Adrian L Salinas Second International Forum for Surveillance and Control of <strong>Mosquito</strong>es and <strong>Mosquito</strong>-borne Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 by Rui-De Xue, Tong-Yan Zhao, Chun-Xiao Li, Günter C Müller, Kenneth J Linthicum, Paul J Linser and Jeanne Moeller One Cold Culex: A Frozen Portrait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 by Pablo D Quinonez The New Orleans Experience: Using Gambusia to Control <strong>Mosquito</strong> Larvae in Abandoned Swimming Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 by Gerald Marten, Cynthia Harrison, Mieu Nguyen, Stephen Sackett, Gregory Thompson, Michael Carroll & Claudia Riegel Designing Infrastructure to Eliminate <strong>Mosquito</strong> Colonization . . . . . . . . . 38 by Jim Shaffer From Where I Sit: Notes from the AMCA Technical Advisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 by Joe Conlon About the Cover: Nine Uranotaenia lowii feed on a calling Southern Toad, Bufo terrestris. 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