July 29, 2016
This selected set of IDaids spotlights five posters displayed at the 2016 National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN) 4th National Meeting, a four-day event consisting of workshops, technical presentations, and poster sessions concentrating on topics for [...]
July 14, 2016
On May 9, APHIS and the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) announced the winners of the 2016 CAPS Recognition Group Award. The award acknowledges the outstanding activities and achievements of members of the CAPS community in supporting the pest detection [...]
June 20, 2016
We were motivated to select this set of IDaids by a recent quarantine expansion for citrus canker in Texas. Citrus canker is one of many plant diseases caused by Xanthomonas species. Xanthomonas pathovars (pathogenic varieties within a species) tend to be [...]
June 1, 2016
The International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences (IAPPS) aims to “promote and support an integrated, scientific approach to plant protection,” facilitating the “rapid and efficient sharing of information across continents” to help prevent new invasions of harmful pests [...]
May 17, 2016
We’ve selected this set of five IDaids from over 50 (in ITP’s 3,300+ IDaid collection) that concern ants. This set was inspired by the IPPC Secretariat’s recent call for technical resources to support [...]
April 7, 2016
The USDA APHIS ITP team is pleased to announce the latest addition to our mobile app collection: Hawaiian Scarab ID: Scarab and Stag Beetles of Hawaii and the Pacific. Developed in cooperation with Wichita State University [...]
March 10, 2016
We’ve selected a set of five IDaids from ITP’s vast collection that are helpful for identifying, diagnosing, and learning about pests and diseases that affect bees and bee colonies. Bees are particularly [...]
January 25, 2016
Here is a selected set of five IDaids from ITP's vast collection that are particularly helpful for
identifying pests and diagnosing diseases of the important commodity corn (maize) [...]
December 1, 2015
Chadron State University recently featured an ITP mobile app in the news section of their website. Grasshoppers of the Western U.S., Edition 4 was released this year in both website and mobile app versions [...]