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By Anita Gold
Special to the Rappahannock News
Q. I collect mosquito-related items, and have quite a collection of such things. I grew up in Minnesota where the natives refer to the mosquito as the state bird" and wear blood donor pins with a mosquito on it, and Tee shirts that say "Give blood ... move to Minnesota". I don't think that many folks have ever thought about mosquitoes as a collectible, but I got started after finding some mosquito-related items in an old tackle box which got me hooked. Now I've accumulated a large collection of "sketter stuff" which includes bottles, tubes, powders, tins, postcards, patches, counter cards, coils, ads, pads and wipes, aerosol, and hand pump spray units such as Black Flag.
Right now my main interest is 1. Great Graphics and 2. Great Names some of which includes ZZZZ, Buzz Off, Skram, Skeeter Skatter, Shoo Fly, Skeeter Skoot, Skeeto Go, Skee Ram, Shu Bug, Skeeterine and on and on. My buddy Steve Lumpkin and I are contemplating doing a collector reference booklet on the subject. We already have a name for our collaboration being "The Swat Team of Streater and Lumpkin."
R.L. Streater
Mercer Island, Wash.
A. Readers who have mosquito items or anything related to them including any Graphics or Names, can contact The Swat Team, R.L. Streater (which rhymes with "miskeeter") at
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