Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health

Our new website will show you how to find the map you want and how to embed it on your website- with LIVE updates! Choose from: Point Eradication Status Occurrence Point Map County Count...

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TALLOWTREE SPREAD INCREASED BY HURRICANES "U.S. Forest Service data show tallow now spreading across 10 states. Its growth nearly tripled in Texas in the last two decades, and increased 500 pe...

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The University of California Cooperative Extension Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources is looking for someone to fill the vacancy of the Cooperative Extension Advisor - Area Integrated ...

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First North American Records of the Eastasian Metallic Wood- Boring Beetle Agrilus smaragdifrons Ganglbauer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae), a Specialist on Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altiss...

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VACANCY FOR ENTOMOLOGIST IN PLANT PROTECTION AT THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is looking for an entomologist in Plant Protection. If interes...

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Check out this app from USDA APHIS ITP! Identifty species in the field from your smartphone or tablet.  "The USDA APHIS ITP team is pleased to announce the latest addition to our mobile ...

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking to hire an assistant professor in the Forest and Wildlife Ecology department of the College of Agricultural & Life Sciences. You, yes you, are nee...

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TACKLING THE CHALLENGE OF INVASIVE SPECIES TO REDUCE IMPACTS TO AGRICULTURE Sponsored by the Agricultural and Food Law Consortium Topic: Invasive species negatively impact agricultural ope...

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A very interesting article in NextGov Newsletter about tracking down wild pigs, a “dangerous, destructive, invasive species wreaking havoc on the nation's crops, pets and outdoor historical ...

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This webinar will cover privet biology, ecology, and management as it pertains to forests in the southeastern U.S. Chinese and Japanese privet (Ligustrum spp.) are now prevalent across much of...

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Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia Invasive Plant Control Update Management of invasive plant species has been a core part of the natural resources program at Dobbins ARB since the original I...

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Request for Ash Samaras for Embryogenic Cultures Drs. Scott Merkle and Kamal Gandhi, University of Georgia Our research team would like to greatly expand our collection of embryogenic cultur...

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Photo by: Rebekah D. Wallace Did you know that many projects begin, have a specific purpose planned out, but do not have a long-term plan in place for the management of the data after the pr...

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Multi-use forests can be a problem from land managers and wildlife alike. Learn more on how you can ease this by attending the webinar for Integrative Forest Management for Wildlife and Forest H...

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The 9th International IPM Symposium will be held March 19-22, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. The event will allow  for the opportunity to learn about the newest research and ideas for IPM as well ...

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Do you know more about invasive species and their correlation to moving firewood? We have the webinar for you! On Wednesday, January 25, 2017, at 1 p.m. EST, Leigh Greenwood from The Nature Conse...

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Leah Bauer, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Bugwood.org Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is adding Banks, Bartow, Butts, Catoosa, Cha...

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Insect pests, some native and others from as far away as Asia, can undermine forest ecosystems. For example, scientists say, several species of hemlock and almost 20 species of ash could nearly ...

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Executive Order released on December 05, 2016 Safeguarding the Nation from the Impacts of Invasive Species By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and to ensure the fait...

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An interesting article was recently published in Nature Communications looking at how much invasive insects cost worldwide.  Invasive insects are one of the more important categories of invasive...

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It has been a little over a week since we participated at the International Congress of Entomology 2016 in Orlando, FL and it was a great experience.  The Center for Invasive Species and Ecosyst...

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Image by: Gerald Holmes, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org A recent study by University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmenta...

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"INVASIVE NON-NATIVE PLANTS HAVE BEEN FOUND TO REDUCE POLLINATOR ABUNDANCE AND DIVERSITY, AND DISRUPT POLLINATOR SERVICES TO SOME NATIVE PLANTS, WHICH COULD REDUCE SEED PRODUCTION. Although our ...

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WHOLE FOODS IS NOW SELLING INVASIVE LIONFISH AT ITS FLORIDA LOCATIONS. From USA Today: Since lionfish were first spotted in Florida in the mid-1980s, they have continued to spread rapidly. Fl...

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Access the April 2016 Issue (Volume 13: issue 2) at: http://www.northeastipm.org/about-us/publications/ipm-insights/april-2016-download/ An image of Colorado potato beetle taken by David Cappa...

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