About this tool

Authors

Lynn S. Kimsey, Distinguished Professor of Entomology; Director, Bohart Museum of Entomology; University of California, Davis, CA

Todd M. Gilligan, Identification Technology Program, USDA APHIS PPQ Science and Technology, Fort Collins, CO

James M. Carpenter, Peter J. Solomon Family Curator; Chair, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

Allan H. Smith-Pardo, Identification Technology Program, USDA APHIS PPQ Science and Technology, Sacramento, CA

Amanda J. Redford, Identification Technology Program, USDA APHIS PPQ Science and Technology, Fort Collins, CO

Please contact Amanda Redford with any comments or questions (amanda.j.redford@usda.gov).

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Sven-Erik Spichiger, Chris Looney, Cassie Cichorz, and the entire Washington State Department of Agriculture team for leading the AGH response in Washington and providing valuable information and photographs. Thanks to Paul van Westendorp, Provincial Apiculturist, Government of British Columbia, for providing specimens of AGH from Canada. Thanks to Brennen Dyer (UC Davis) and Hanna Royals (USDA APHIS PPQ ITP) for photographs of museum specimens. Thanks to Anne LeBrun, Josie Ryan, Tim St. Germain (USDA APHIS PPQ), and Chris Looney (WSDA) for providing reviews that improved the quality of the final website.

This project was funded through the Plant Protection Act Section 7721 and was made possible, in part, by Cooperative Agreements (AP20PPQS&T00C056 & AP20PPQS&T00C126) from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).