removing a control from Me.Controls

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basically in my nibbles-clone game here i've got a picturebox (it's a pic of a red dot) that moves around the window and in the timer's tick event the dot moves 1 space (7 pixels in any of the basic 4 directions, no diagonals) then a new picture box is placed in that spot like so:

VB.NET:
'This works fine
'picDot is the 
Private Sub tmrTimer_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles tmrTimer.Tick
		Dim PicBx As New PictureBox
		With PicBx
			.Image = ilsSnake.Images(0)
			.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.AutoSize
			.Visible = True
			Select Case intDirection
				Case Direction.Up
				    picDot.Top -= .Height
				    .Top = picDot.Top
				    .Left = picDot.Left
				Case Direction.Down
				    picDot.Top += .Height
				    .Top = picDot.Top
				    .Left = picDot.Left
				Case Direction.Left
				    picDot.Left -= .Width
				    .Left = picDot.Left
				    .Top = picDot.Top
				Case Direction.Right
				    picDot.Left += .Width
				    .Left = picDot.Left
				    .Top = picDot.Top
			End Select
		End With
		Me.Controls.Add(PicBx)
End Sub

so now i've got a bunch of these being added just like i want them to, but i need to have the one at the "tail" be removed and i'm not sure how to search the collection looking for that last one and removing it

makes for a nifty etch-a-scetch thing right now
 
You could add each PictureBox to an ArrayList as it is added to the Form and then you know that the first PictureBox in the list is the one that needs to be removed.
 
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