July 26, 2021
In May of this year, USDA confirmed the presence of box tree moths in the U.S. The pests likely hitchhiked here via infested plant material imported from an Ontario, Canada nursery. APHIS has initiated an emergency [...]
May 28, 2020
Vespa mandarinia, the Asian giant hornet (AGH), also known as the Japanese hornet or giant sparrow bee, is native to a region that extends from northern India to East Asia. This highly social wasp was first [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
March 25, 2019
PPQ's mission is to safeguard U.S. agriculture and natural resources against the entry, establishment, and spread of economically and environmentally significant pests, and facilitate the safe trade of [...]
August 15, 2018
August is Tree Check Month because it is an ideal time to check your
trees for signs of the invasive and destructive Asian longhorned beetle (ALB).
ALB is currently restricted to a few small regions of the country, but invasive
species may occur anywhere. We gathered this set of IDaids
to highlight three invasive pests that could be lurking in your [...]
May 30, 2018
Potentially one of the most serious threats to U.S. cherry production,
the European cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis cerasi, was initially detected
in New York along the Niagara River in 2017. It was previously identified [...]
