February IPM Webinar – Blood-Feeding Flies and Mosquitoes

The National Park Service (NPS) Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program regularly hosts webinars on a variety of IPM and invasive species related topics which are open to anyone. On February 1^st, NPS IPM Program will be hosting a webinar on Blood-Feeding Flies and Mosquitoes. This webinar will be presented by Dr. Robert Kimsey from UC Davis in which he will cover the biology of Blood Feeding Flies in general but focus on the free-living blood-feeding mosquitoes, black flies, sand flies, and biting midges. He will briefly introduce the order Diptera and its two suborders, the morphology and fundamental life history of this order, and then dive into specific examples of mosquitoes, black flies, sandflies, and biting midges including larval habitats, biting behavior, and reproductive biology.

To register, go to: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5540282282602108942.

Additionally, you can find the schedule of monthly themes and register for future webinars on the NPS Common Learning Portal, and you can find recordings of previous sessions on the IPM YouTube playlist. Feel free to send any questions or topic suggestions to e-mail us.