BugwoodWiki:Current events
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Several projects are currently in progress.
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WikiProjects led by the Bugwood Network Staff
We are currently focusing on articles related to various commodity groups. If you have an article that is already written that you would like to include in this wiki, contact the person listed under the commodity group. This person can also make you a BugwoodWiki Scholar to allow you to edit articles directly.
Ornamentals
Project contact: Joe LaForest
Vegetables
Project contact: Joe LaForest
Invasive species
Project contact: Carey Minteer
WikiProjects led by other groups
IPED - US Forest Service
Inventory Pest Evaluation, Detection, and Reporting - IPED - is a comprehensive protocol for detecting, identifying, evaluating and reporting pests and diseases that threaten urban forests.
Project Contact: Anne Cumming Developing online resources for Pest Early Detection in the Urban Forest
Image recruitment efforts
The Bugwood Network is always searching for people willing to contribute images to the Bugwood Image Database. These images are used in the BugwoodWiki, on image websites (Forestry Images, Insect Images, IPM Images) and are freely available for non-profit, educational uses. Since we are a grant-funded organization, images relating to funded projects are given first priority. Other images relating to economically important commodities are processed next. As we have time, we do add images of non-economic, non-grant-related topics. Listed below is a listing of the projects for which we have funding. If you have images related to these efforts, please contact the appropriate person. For all other image additions, please look at the listing of the Bugwood Network Staff to find the appropriate person.
Southern Plant Diagnostic Network Pest List
Project contact: Joe LaForest
The Southern Plant Diagnostic Network is creating an image archive to illustrate all life stages of the pests, weeds, and diseases that may show up in their diagnostic labs. Their pest list contains 1300 species that are either native, introduced or exotic to states in the southern region (Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Southern Texas). This list can be viewed at http://www.ipmimages.org/spdn.
Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey - Target Pests
Project contact: Joe LaForest
The Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey is a national program dedicated to surveying and tracking organisms of economic concern that have been introduced into the United States. To aid them in this effort, we are asking people to contribute images of these various pests. There CAPS pest lists can be found under the "Pest Information" tab at http://ceris.purdue.edu/napis/states/index.html
Invasive weeds of the United States
Project contact: Carey Minteer
