The Nature Conservancy, along with nursery industry partners and scientists will support these redesigned regulations in their ongoing efforts to block non-native insects and diseases. If implemented, the USDA rules would created a new category NAPPRA (not authorized for imports Pending Pest Risk Assessment) called, under which the nation could quickly stop the import of some plants harboring pests suspicion can be implemented by methods to ensure they are safe "to detect the presence of foreign pests in many areas that had gone previously undetected, Vigilant homeowners and gardeners have been those," says faith Campbell, Senior Policy representative in Conservancy of forest Health Program.
. "A Massachusetts homeowner who found a strange looking bug in her backyard and reported it to the appropriate government agency helped the Asian long-horned beetle prevent the spread of the United States."
earlier this year warning greenhouse owner in Pennsylvania saw strange symptoms on his seedling laurel or sweet bay (Latin: Laurus nobilis). Experts confirmed that the plants were infected by the pathogen, the "sudden oak death" caused (Latin: Phytophthora ramorum), a disease that has killed more than one million trees in California. This is not the first detection of the pathogen in Pennsylvania or the eastern United States; However, to date there have been no observations on the east coast of the pathogen in the forestry environment.
This disease is known to attack several species of oaks, magnolias, rhododendrons and Mountain Laurel. Laurel is a popular herb often grown by gardeners. If homeowners have purchased seedlings or seeds recently laurel, they should consider carefully these plants. If the plants dead or dying leaf tips or the entire plants are dead or dying, as these symptoms may by "too much water, too little water, too much fertilizer, cooling or frost damage, caused infections by the sudden oak death pathogen or some other pathogens. "
When homeowners all exclude causes other than a disease for the presence, they should have their state Department of Agriculture in connection to figure out where to send a sample of it and how it should be packaged spores to ensure can not escape during transport. A chief plant pest regulator can state with www.nationalplantboard.org/member/index.html.[1945009gefundenwerden]
In addition, as nationwide homeowners begin their general yard clean-up and spring gardening, they should, that others aware its plants and trees could bear a harmful insects or diseases. If they do not notice any insects or rot or disease realize they can add a photo or a copy thereof, to take their local nurseries or Internet resources that are used http://invasivepests.org/photosmore.html to identify to help them it. If they suspect they may invasive pest or pathogen found, they should be the local government department, the agriculture or forestry monitors to make the discovery of attention and gain support to confirm its identity.
Following some of the most common are invasive insects and diseases, and the regions that are currently threatened by their advance.
nonnative plague regions endangered --------------- ---- ----------- hemlock woolly adelgid Appalachian Region laurel wilt and coastal regions of South Carolina to Mississippi; Ambrosia beetles Florida sudden oak death coastal regions of California and Oregon Asian Bock New England; New York and New Jersey; Chicago Beetle Greater detailed information about and photos of this and other invasive pests can be found at www.invasivepests.org.
The Nature Conservancy (www.nature.org) is a leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters. For nature and people The Conservancy and its more than one million members have received responsible for the protection of more than 18 million acres in the United States and more than 117 million acres in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific have helped.
Continental's dialogue on non-native forest insects and diseases is a group of organizations and individuals that cultivates and catalyzes joint action between different interests, the threat to North American forests from non-native insects and diseases reduce.
Source: The Nature Conservancy
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