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2026 Annual Conference

Our 2026 annual conference was held January 27-29, at the Delta Virginia Beach Waterfront. This conference marked VMCA's 79th year as an organization and we're looking forward to celebrating our 80th anniversary at this same location in 2027.


See below for select PDF and prerecorded presentations from the conference, posted with speaker permission.

Virginia's Vector-borne Disease Activity in 2025 - Dr. Eleanor Labgold, VDH (pdf)Download
Chagas Disease and Kissing Bugs - Dr. Eleanor Labgold, VDH (pdf)Download
AMCA 2025 Update - Mike Doyle, AMCA & NC Department of Health (pptx)Download
Colloquial Guide to Mosquito ID - Kyle Wey, Norfolk Department of Health (pptx)Download

  • Keeping Virginia's Landscapes Buzzing - Jacqueline Buenrostro, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
  • Hunting Snakes by Hunting Mosquitoes - Dr. Lawrence Reeves, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
  • Hard Times at the Hatchery - Lily Withrow, Henrico County Public Works
  • Spatial Repellents and Bioassays to Evaluate Them - Dr. Robert (Bob) Aldridge, USDA
  • Henrico's Water Warriors - Sanni-Jannah Wagenaar, Henrico County Public Works

2025 Joint Annual Conference

VMCA and MAMCA held a joint annual conference February 4-6, 2025 at the Marriott City Center in Newport News, Virginia. 


Eight years since the last joint conference, this year marked VMCA's 78th and MAMCA's 50th Anniversaries. Read more about this year's conference in the spring edition of The Skeeter.





2024 Annual Conference

Our 77th Annual Conference was held February 20-22, 2024 at the Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront. See below for select PDF presentations from the conference, posted with speaker permission.


Day 1: Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Aedes aegypti in Fairfax County - Lauren Lochstampfor, Fairfax County Health Department (pdf)Download
All of the Other True Flies - Alex Riley, Suffolk Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
Check Your Sources - Karen Akaratovic, Suffolk Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
Giving Remoa A Tri for VMCA - Charles Abadam, Suffolk Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
QA Findings for Surveillance Activities - Tilde Hoff, Fairfax County Health Department (pdf)Download
The Mighty Mosquito Mission - Gina Serge, Henrico County Public Works (pdf)Download
The Surprise of 2023 - Cx salinarius - Lisa Wagenbrenner, Chesapeake Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
Ticks and Tick-borne Disease Activity in Virginia - Joshua Bernick, Virginia Department of Health (pdf)Download
York County Outreach Update...Again - Janice Pulver, York County Mosquito Control (pdf)Download

Day 2: Wednesday, February 21, 2024

VDACS Legal Update - Christine Haslam, VDACS (pdf)Download
They grow up so fast! - Jay Kiser, Suffolk Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
Aedes aegypti in Norfolk - Penelope Smelser, Norfolk Department of Health, Vector Control (pdf)Download
2nd Place Poster-WNV vectors in Chicago - Ben Burgunder, University of MD (pdf)Download
Coyotes, Wildlife You Want - Pete Acker, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (pdf)Download
Mosquito and Arboviral Activity in VA 2023 - David Gaines, Virginia Department of Health (pdf)Download
Integrating Esri Field Maps - Janice Pulver, York County Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
Experimenting with Light and Location - Tim DuBois, Portsmouth Public Works (pdf)Download
What are these tiny critters in my larval bag - Rachel Kempf, Fairfax County Health Department (pdf)Download
Pesticides and the Endangered Species Act, Bulletins Live Two! - Marlene Larios, VDACS (pdf)Download
Vector-borne Disease and Zoos - Elyse Murphy, Webbing the Wild LLC (pdf)Download
Malaria and WNV in Maryland - Brian Prendergast, MD Department of Agriculture (pdf)Download
Culiseta melanura larval habitat identification - Kimberly Foss, NE Massachusetts Mosquito Control (pdf)Download

Day 3: Thursday, February 22, 2024

MAMCA Update - Jeff Hottenstein, MAMCA Representative (pdf)Download
You have the power - battery management for adult mosquito surveillance - Andy Lima, Fairfax County (pdf)Download
1st Annual Photo Contest Results - Wes Robertson, Photo Contest Committee Chair (pdf)Download
Lightning Round - The World Around Us - Jay Kiser, Suffolk Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
Lightning Round - Canva, Puzzling but Powerful - Katherine Reutt, Chesapeake MC (pdf)Download
Lightning Round - Kids Say the Darndest Things - Gina Serge, Henrico County Public Works (pdf)Download
Lightning Round - Water Reclamation Plants - Brian Prendergast, Maryland Dept of Agriculture (pdf)Download
Lightning Round - Skeeter Stuff - Karen Akaratovic, Suffolk Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
Lightning Round - What is a pond - Alex Riley, Suffolk Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
Lightning Round - Introvert's guide to complaint call processing - Wes Robertson, Henrico County (pdf)Download
Lightning Round - How to train your dragon (fly) - Rachel Kempf, Fairfax County (pdf)Download

2023 Annual Conference

We're back in-person! 


Our first fully in-person annual conference since 2020 was held February 14-16, 2023 at the Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront.


See below for select PDF presentations from the conference, posted with speaker permission.

Gravid Emulsion Trial - Penelope Smelser, City of Norfolk (pdf)Download
Chesapeake 2022: The Quiet Flipside of 2021 - Lisa Wagenbrenner, Chesapeake Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
Aedes sollicitans and Craney Island - Addie Weddle, City of Portsmouth (pdf)Download
Ticks and Tickborne Diseases in Virginia - David Gaines, VDH (pdf)Download
AMCA Update - Daniel Markowski via Michael Doyle, AMCA (pdf)Download
York County Outreach Update - Janice Pulver, York County Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
All the Buzz You Missed - Jay Kiser, City of Suffolk Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
Cyzmic Activity - Ann Herring, City of Suffolk Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
IPM in Museums & Art Galleries - Darryl Forest, National Gallery of Art (pdf)Download
Characterization of insecticide resistance in Culex pipiens - Lindsey Baxter, Cornell, NEVBD (pdf)Download
New Technologies - Calibration Calculators and Characterization Analysis - Katie Williams, Valent (pdf)Download
Getting an egg up on resistance testing - Andy Lima, Fairfax County Disease Carrying Insects Program (pdf)Download
The observable relationship between forest pests and Mosquitos - Mike Rollins, Prince William County (pdf)Download
Impact of Endangered Species on Pest Control Programs - Keith Tignor, VDACS (pdf)Download
Utilizing ArcGIS Survey123 - Amy Trimm, Chatham County GA Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
The Truth Stings - Kyra Hull, SWI Henrico County (pdf)Download
ULV Fogging Notification Map Rollout - Penelope Smelser, City of Norfolk (pdf)Download
Importance of Phytophagy, take it or leaf it - Jay Kiser, City of Suffolk Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
Say Whaaat - Wes Robertson, SWI Henrico (pdf)Download
A Few Firsts - Karen Akaratovic, City of Suffolk Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
A cool bug I found - Alex Riley, City of Suffolk Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
WRBU Wants YOU -to immortalize your mosquitoes - Andy Lima, Fairfax County Disease Carrying Insects (pdf)Download
Critters in the field - Carla Caulkins, Chesapeake Mosquito Control (pdf)Download
Buzzkill - Charles Abadam, City of Suffolk Mosquito Control (pdf)Download

2022 Annual Conference

75th Anniversary of Virginia Mosquito Control Association (1947-2022)


Our annual conference was held as a combination in-person and virtual event January 25-27, 2022 at the Newport News Marriott at City Center. Thank you to all who supported and attended to celebrate this milestone for our organization! 


Select presentations from the VMCA 2022 Annual Conference are available below with permission from respective speakers.

Karen Akaratovic - Distribution Expansion of Culex nigripalpus (pdf)Download
Karen Akaratovic - House of 1,000 Corpses, Pesticide Resistance Testing in Suffolk, VA (pdf)Download
Kyle Brinson - The Eastern Shore’s Triple Threat, Changes in Land and Mosquito Habitat (pdf)Download
Brian Byrd - AMCA Update (pdf)Download
Ture Carlson - Relesing Mosquitoes (pdf)Download
Robert Christian - VDACS Pesticide Spill Response (pdf)Download
Robert Christian - VDACS Update (pdf)Download
Andy Davidson - Predator Biocontrol of the Rock Pool Mosquito (pdf)Download
Tim Dubois - VMCA Turns 75 (pdf)Download
Gillian Eastwood - Vector-borne Disease Ecology Investigation in the Eastern United States (pdf)Download
Holly Gaff - State of the World of Ticks and Tick-borne Pathogens (pdf)Download
Jeff Hottenstein - Reflection and Lessons Learned from Implementing a Portfolio-wide Packaging Transition (pdf)Download
Jay Kiser - Culex pipiens Bloodmeal Analysis from Suffolk Virginia (pdf)Download
Jay Kiser - Dude, Where's my Culex (pdf)Download
Jay Kiser - VMCA Social Events (pdf)Download

Chuck Berg - Polymerase Mosquito Testing (available here: https://vimeo.com/666076122)

Stephen Panossian - Seasonal Adult Mosquito Abundance Datasets (pdf)Download
Brian Prendergast West Nile in MD (pdf)Download
Janice Pulver - Fieldwork and Turkey Hunting (pdf)Download
Janice Pulver - The Future of Trapping (pdf)Download
Peter Schiff - Surveillance of Pathogens in Blacklegged Ticks from Southwest Virginia (pdf)Download
Melanie Turner - Phenology of Container-Breeding Mosquitoes in SW Virginia (pdf)Download
Liza Fleeson Trossbach - Pollinators and Pesticides (presented by Clint Shettle) (pdf)Download
Lisa Wagenbrenner - WNV in Chesapeake 2021 (pdf)Download
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