VMCA Goes Virtual For 2021

The VMCA Executive Board has voted unanimously to cancel the in-person 2021 Annual Meeting of the Virginia Mosquito Control Association, due to circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

A number of other states in the region and nationally have also cancelled in-person meetings. During these unprecedented times, the health and safety of our membership and those we serve is at the forefront of this decision. Budget cuts, jurisdictional travel restrictions, and safety issues surrounding large gatherings were all considered as we weighed our options.

The next in-person meeting of the VMCA has been rescheduled for January 25-27, 2022 at the Newport News Marriott at City Center.

Sincere appreciation goes to Charles Abadam, who was able to renegotiate our contract for 2022 without incurring any of the thousands of dollars in cancellation fees that the organization would have been responsible for if we chose to cancel and re-book somewhere else the following year.

The Executive Board has decided to hold this year's conference virtually and you can find all those details below as well as via membership emails. If you believe you are a member but are not receiving emails, please contact us at VirginiaMosquito@gmail.com

2021 VMCA Virtual Conference

Step 1: Membership

Step 2: Mark Your Calendar

While the virtual conference is free and open to all this year, we ask that you first please renew your membership or if you're new to our organization, please sign up to be a member for 2021!

Form and payment information can be found on our membership page.

Membership costs only $15 ($10 for students!) and comes with access to events throughout the year including trainings, monthly luncheons (via TMVCC; Covid in absentia), employment announcements, as well as the ability to run for a position on the board, serve on committees, and much more.

Step 2: Mark Your Calendar

GoToMeeting Webinars to be held:

January 26th 8:30AM - 12:30PM

January 27th 8:30AM - 1:30PM*

*last hour will be the annual business meeting

Instructions on how to sign up and information about how the webinars work will be sent to members.

Step 3: Check your pesticide applicator status

We are working with VDACS to satisfy requirements for recertification of Registered Technician as well as Category 8.

Details TBA.

Step 4: Get your presentation ready!

Step 3: Check your pesticide applicator status

We can't hold a meeting without presentations, so please be thinking about anything vector-related you've been working on that could benefit our membership.

Topics that have been covered in the past include: other arthropod vectors, behavior studies, control methods, diseases, legislation, outreach and public relations, program operations, protective protocols, repellants, resistance, and surveillance. Check out the presentations from our 2020 Conference to get more ideas.

Please contact President Elect Tim DuBois with your presentation information (duboist@portsmouthva.gov).