Bugwoodwiki:Current events
Several projects are currently in progress. For more information about these projects, Contact the person listed under any project. For help using the wiki or technical questions related to a project, see the Help:Project Help Staff siting for the BugwoodWiki.
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.
Diagnostician's cookbook
This site is meant to help share information on techniques used in the diagnosis of plant diseases and disorders.
If you have expertise that you wish to contribute, please contact Joe LaForest and he will make sure you have access to author articles of add to discussions. When authoring, please pay attention to the standard format for diagnosticians recipes and the standard format for diagnostic tests so that we can keep things as consistent as possible. Articles are placed in the proper places using Categories.
Project contact: Joe LaForest
Invasive species and Invasipedia
Invasivipedia was started by The Nature Conservancy and has found a new home at BugwoodWiki.
Project contact: Karan Rawlins
WikiProjects led by other groups
High Plains IPM
The High Plains IPM website covers current effective management options for insect, weed, pathogen and environmental problems affecting all major field crops grown in the High Plains.
Project contacts: Mary Burrows
Urban Forest Inventory Pest Evaluation and Detection (IPED)
The Inventory Pest Evaluation and Detection, (I-PED) protocol provides a portable, accessible and standardized method of observing a tree for possible insect or disease problems. It is intended to be a modern protocol for long-term national urban pest networking, detection, and monitoring.
Project contacts: Anne Cummings
First Detector Training Materials for Master Gardeners by the National Plant Diagnostic Network
The National Plant Diagnostic Network Training and Education Committee has created this page to provide an easily accessible source of information, presentation materials, and images related to the detection of exotic or newly introduced plant pests. Below, you will find links to fact sheets on the species of concern to the NPDN. Links in red are currently pending material. At the end of the fact sheet, you will find a gallery of images that are representative of these organisms and a link to download presentation materials that may be used to educate various groups such as master gardeners, garden clubs and homeowners about these pests.
Project contacts: Amanda Hodges
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
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.
Project contact: Joe LaForest
Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey - Target Pests
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://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/plant_pest_info/pest_detection/pestlist.shtml
Project contact: Joe LaForest
