COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURAL
PEST SURVEY (CAPS) PROGRAM
The Cooperative
Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) Program is a Cooperative
project between the University of
Tennessee, Agricultural Extension Service and the United
States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health
Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine. This cooperative effort
is intended for the mutual benefit of the cooperators as well as
the people of Tennessee and the United States.
Programs and activities are planned by the University of
Tennessee, Agricultural Extension Service in conjunction with UT Research and
Teaching, the Tennessee
Department of Agriculture, USDA, and Private Industry. The
goal of the program is to produce needed information relative to
endemic and exotic pests which might occur in Tennessee. It is
also intended to provide information to the University, Industry,
and others on the Export requirements of American agricultural
products which will assist in the movement of agricultural
products in Interstate and International commerce. The collected
pest survey data is stored in a national computer database,
called NAPIS.
Activities and Surveys conducted include:
- Exotic
Pest Survey - Assist with and maintain exotic traps
across the state for False Codling Moth, African
Cottonworm and for Egyptian Cottonworm.
- Exotic
Bark Beetle Survey - Assist with and conduct
Port-of-entry and other trapping for exotic bark beetles
(Ips typographus, Hylurgus ligniperda) at four river port
locations in Tennessee: Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga
and Knoxville.
- Tobacco
Blue Mold Survey - In 1980, a blue mold monitoring
system was developed through the Tobacco Disease Council
to report the annual detections and spread of this
devastating disease. A coordinator for each tobacco
growing state monitors the local situation and alerts
counterparts in other states when blue mold is detected.
Through use of this system, the annual movement of blue
mold can be plotted and related to the weather patterns
and storms that carry the fungal spores north into the
United States.
- Africanized
Honey Bee Survey - The Africanized Honey Bee is not
known to occur East of the Mississippi river. The purpose
of the project is to monitor the likely points of
artificial introduction of Africanized Honey Bee into
Tennessee.
- Gypsy
Moth Survey - The University of Tennessee
Agricultural Extension Service will provide assistance to
APHIS-PPQ in the detection, delimiting, control and
eradication of gypsy moth infestations through-out the
state of Tennessee. Approximately 18,000 cooperative
detection/delimiting traps for gypsy moth are operated
annually through out the state.
- Pink
Bollworm Survey - The University of Tennessee
Agricultural Extension Service will provide assistance to
APHIS-PPQ in the detection, delimiting, control and
eradication of pink bollworm infestations through-out the
state of Tennessee.
- Pine
Shoot Beetle Survey - The purpose of this project is
to determine the presence of Pine Shoot Beetle and to
record the presence and spread of the pest throughout the
United States. This pest is not known to occur in
Tennessee. Pine Shoot Beetle can cause serious damage to
the new growth of healthy trees as well as to the trunks
of weak and dying trees and bark covered logs and lumber.
High risk counties and sites will be intensively surveyed for this
pest.
- Tropical
Soda Apple Survey - USDA-APHIS-PPQ and Department of
Agriculture have conducted surveys during 1994 and 1995
in livestock animal locations to check for the presence
of the noxious weed, tropical soda apple. Veterinary
Services has agreed to monitor sale barns and adjacent
manure disposal areas for the weed. UT Extension
personnel have been alerted to watch for the presence of
this pest across the state.
- CAPS
National Karnal Bunt Survey - Karnal bunt disease of
wheat was detected in Arizona, March 8, 1996. Emergency
actions are underway to manage the area where Karnal bunt
may have originated in the U.S., where it may now be in
the U.S., and where areas of the U.S. may have been put
at risk. Prior to the March 8, 1996 detection, Karnal
bunt disease had not been found in the United States.
There is an ongoing annual National Karnal Bunt Survey
coordinated through the USDA CAPS program, which will demonstrate
areas of the country which are free from the disease. The
national survey will emphasize sample collection after harvest
since the disease is not readily detectable in the field. To
date, all Tennessee wheat growing counties have tested negative
for Karnal bunt disease.
Powerpoint presentation on CAPS survey: January-May, 2001
Inservice Training for Extension personnel.
OTHER INTERNET LINKS
Cooperative State Research,
Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)
United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA)
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS)
Plant
Protection and Quarantine (PPQ)
National Agricultural
Pest Information System (NAPIS)
University of
Tennessee Extension Entomology and Plant Pathology Department
Entomology Society of America
(ESA)
American Phytopathological
Society (APS)
Send comments to ealong@utk.edu
Updated 6/04/01