February 19, 2020
ITP is pleased to announce the latest addition to our tool website collection: Sawfly GenUS. Developed in cooperation with the Washington State Department of Agriculture, Sawfly GenUS is an interactive [...]
January 17, 2020
USDA recently issued a Federal Order imposing restrictions on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) and pepper (Capsicum sp.) plants, fruits, and seeds imported from regions where ToBRFV is present. Because of the rapid [...]
January 13, 2020
ITP is pleased to announce the latest addition to our mobile app collection: Aquarium & Pond Plant ID. Developed in cooperation with the tool’s author, Shaun Winterton (California Department of Food & Agriculture) and [...]
November 12, 2019
ITP is pleased to announce the release of Southeast Asian Ambrosia Beetle ID, a new tool that supports identification of 34 genera and 316 species of xyleborine beetles. Xyleborini is the largest tribe within the Scolytinae [...]
November 5, 2019
Two ITP cooperators conducted an insect identification workshop in Palmer, Alaska in early October for 16 regulatory and survey biologists from across the state. The workshop focused on identifying moths [...]
October 10, 2019
The Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri), also called the Asiatic citrus psyllid or ACP, is a notorious pest that prefers citrus and closely related plants for hosts, particularly species within the genera Citrus, Citropsis, and [...]
June 28, 2019
Summer is officially here! For plant protection professionals, farmers, gardeners, and others dealing with plants, that often means watching for signs of plant pests, diseases, and weeds. Once a problem is spotted [...]
May 31, 2019
ITP has added over 1,200 new IDaids to the collection since October 2018, when ITP’s Search IDaids site was first released, enabling us to reach a significant milestone: over 5,000 IDaids! Many of the new IDaids are individual fact sheets from ITP's own tools, enhancing [...]
April 26, 2019
Spring has sprung! The weather is warming, which motivates people to make that move to a new place or to take a vacation. But these seemingly harmless activities might actually indirectly harm our environment [...]
