The occurrence of Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus in the district of Ka'u, near the southern most point on the Island of Hawaii was investigated using ovitraps from 4 June 2002 through 26 April 2003. A total of 10,467 eggs were obtained from the ovitraps. From these eggs, 5207 adult Aedes mosquitoes were recovered. Of these adults, 3826 (73%) were Ae. albopictus and 1381 (27%) were Ae. aegypti. A peak number of eggs were collected in March for Ae. albopictus and in April for Ae. aegypti. No correlation was found between the amount of rainfall and number of mosquito eggs. A comparison between Ohia leaf infusion water and tap water resulted in twice as many eggs occurring in the former than the latter. However, the percentage of eggs reared to the adult stage was similar (ca. 50%) for both types of water. Adults reared from Ohia leaf infusion were 62.0% Ae. albopictus and 38.0% Ae. aegypti; similarly, adults reared from tap water were 60.4% Ae. albopictus and 39.6% Ae. aegypti.

Eighteen hundred samples of Traditional Chinese medicinal materials from a traditional medical storehouse in Huainan City, Anhui Province, China were collected and examined for mites. The results indicated 87% (1566/1800) of samples were infested with 47 species of mites belonging to 25 genera and 7 families. It is concluded that Traditional Chinese medicinal materials are severely contaminated and much more importance should be given to the protection of stored products and to the prevention of human acariasis.

Three species of goat moths are recorded at the Hanford Nuclear Site and Hanford National Monument in south central Washington State. They are: Comadia bertholdi (Grote 1880), Givira cornelia (Neumoegen & Dyar 1893), and Prionoxystus robiniae (Peck 1818). The general habitat of the Hanford area is shrub-steppe but there are extensive areas of sand dune as well as limited riparian habitat. These are the first Washington records for C. bertholdi and G. cornelia. In addition, Comadia bertholdi also is first recorded here from Yakima County, Washington, 81 km west of the Hanford Site. Flight period dates are presented for all collections.

This paper reports eight rare and unusual arthropod occurrences at hummingbird feeders. A census was taken of a sucrose filled feeder that was observed for small arthropods from 1990–2001 in Sacramento, California. One water-filled control feeder was added on 1 May 1997 and data were collected twice daily at feeders. The following taxa were collected from the sucrose feeder except as indicated: 1) a new North American record for the psocid, Lachesilla quercus (Kolbe); 2) a new species of Megaselia (Phoridae) that is pending description; 3) the terrestrial chironomid, Smittia aterrima (Meigen) was also attracted to the water feeder; 4) the lepidopteran larva, Tineola basselliella (Hummel) (Tineidae); 5) a pupa of the aquatic chironomid, Heterotrissocladius sp.; 6) the rare soil mite, Iphidozercon corticalis Lindquist, may be associated with the Anna hummingbird, Calypte anna (Lesson) or insects (Diptera adults) as a phoretic host; 7) underwater funnel webs of the yellow sac spider, Cheirocanthium mildei Koch were observed only in the water feeder; 8) immature and adult C. mildei were collected from the sucrose and water feeder, but more immatures were attracted to the sucrose. This study found that the feeder with 25% sucrose had potential to attract a diversity of small arthropods and revealed unexpected results on behavior and questions for future study.