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University Sites
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Biological Control: A Guide to
Natural Enemies in North America by Cathy Weeden, Tony Shelton, and Mike Hoffman,
Cornell University.
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IPM and Biological
Control in Florida, Concepts of IPM and Biological Control, site
dedicated to the Delivery of IPM and Biological Control Information and
Technology Glossary.
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In an effort to direct individuals to outstanding sites containing
information on the insects, mites and nematodes that the personnel of the
University of Florida Entomology
and Nematology Department work with, and to reward those individuals and
organizations that are contributing significantly to the knowledge of
entomology and nematology available on the World Wide Web (WWW), they have
created the University of Florida "Best of the Bugs WWW
site award.
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Biological Control News
(formerly Midwest Biological Control News Online) Midwest Biological
Control News is a monthly newsletter dedicated to providing information on the use of
beneficial organisms for controlling insect and mite pests of the farm, garden, and home.
The newsletter is compiled and published at the University of Wisconsin.
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Biological Control Virtual
Information Center Biological control organizations, databases, and web sites around
the world, sponsored by the Center for Integrated Pest Management and the Consortium for
International Crop Protection, as part of the National IPM Network.
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Bt corn
and European corn borer, North Central Regional Research Project (NC-205), Ecology and
Management of European corn borer and other stalk boring Lepidoptera, NCR Ext. Publ. 602,
authors, Ostlie et. al. 1997.
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IPM and Biological Control in
Florida, Concepts of IPM and Biological Control, site dedicated to the
Delivery of IPM and Biological Control Information and Technology
Glossaries
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Plant &
Insect Parasitic Nematode Home Page Everything you ever wanted to know about
neamtodes from the Department of Plant pathology, University of Nebraska.
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Society of Nematologists |
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The Public and
Pesticides: Exploring the Interface, Perceptions of Pesticides, Pros and Cons, by
Chuck Curtis, Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, with funding from
NAPIAP, USDA.
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The Tree of Life
Brothers Dave and Wayne Maddison, systematic biologists at the University of Arizona, are
creating "the most worthwhile thing on the web" (Science 1996: 273 (5275)
568-570. Don't miss this one.
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 University of California Statewide Integrated
Pest Management (IPM) Project UC IPM on-line resources, microcomputer software and
databases, publications, slide sets and videos, training programs and much more.
UC-IPM
Links to Pest Management Sites
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Welcome to Introductory
Entomology at the University of Alberta, instructors Bev Mitchell and Andrew Keddie
Study Modules on
Insect Morphology (viewing requires Acrobat Reader).
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U.S. and State Government Sites
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National
Biological Information Infrastructure, an wesome site maintained by the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Geological Service. The mission of
BRD is to provide the scientific understanding and technologies needed to support the
sound management and conservation of our Nation's biological resources.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Biotechnology Website
BT (Bacillus thuringiensis)
Toxin Resources
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Centers for Disease and Control
Prevention (CDC)
Health
Topics A to Z
Division
of infectious Diseases
Arborviral Encephalitides
Chagas
disease (American trypanosomiasis)
Lyme
Disease (Borrelia burgdorferi Infection)
West Nile
Disease, Fight the Bite!
Dengue
Fever & Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever
Malaria
Plague
Yellow Fever
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California School IPM web site! This site has been created by the
California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) as part of its
implementation of the Healthy Schools Act of 2000.. Here you will find a
variety of documents, web links, and other resources related to the Act and
to integrated pest management in schools.
U. Calif,
School IPM HELPR" (Health and Environmental Impacts Lookup Resource).
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FAS Online,
Foreign Agricultural Service helps USDA and other federal agencies, U.S.
universities, and others enhance the global competitiveness of U.S.
agriculture and helps increase income and food availability in developing
nations by mobilizing expertise for agriculturally led economic growth.
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Insect Pheromone
Papers - A database of over 11,500 papers, maintained by John A. Byers,
USDA, ARS.
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Invasive Species: a gateway to Federal (USDA, ARS)
efforts concerning invasive species.
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Minnesota Department of
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NSF
Center for Integrated Pest Management |
National PLANTS
Database The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the
vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and
its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists,
distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images (30,000+),
crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references. This page provides a series of electronic forms from which you may access the
National PLANTS Database of the United States Department of Agriculture,
Natural Resources Conservation Service
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Northern Prairie
Wildlife Center,
This Internet site of the , emphasizes topics and data
pertinent to the North American Great Plains.
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State Partners of the
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service This section of the
USDA, CSREES homepage
provides convenient access all the land-grant universities.
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The National Agricultural Library, Part of
ARS/USDA, is one of four National Libraries in the United States. NAL is a major
international source for agriculture and related information. This Web site provides
access to NAL's many resources and a gateway to its associated institutions.
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United States Department of Agriculture,
In
1862--President Abraham Lincoln founded the U.S. Department of Agriculture "the
people's department." In Lincoln's day 90 percent of the "people" were
farmers. Today, USDA continues Lincoln's legacy by serving all Americans--the 2 percent of
our Nation who farm as well as everyone who eats food, wears clothes, lives in a house, or
visits a rural area or a national forest.
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NAPIS,
PestTracker, the public access web site of the National Agricultural
Pest Information System (NAPIS), the agricultural pest tracking database of
the US Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS) Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ)
Cooperative
Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS).
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United State Agency for International Development
Established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, USAID is the independent government
agency that provides economic development and humanitarian assistance to advance U.S.
economic and political interests overseas.
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Commercial Sites
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American Crop Protection Association Representing
the companies that produce, sell, and distribute virtually all the active compounds used
in crop protection chemicals registered for use in the United States.American
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Society of Crop
Consultants, The specific purpose of ASAC
is to foster the science of agricultural consulting in all its varied
fields; to promote the profession and maintain high standards under which
the members conduct their service to the public; hold meetings for the
exchange of ideas and the study of the profession of agricultural
consulting; and maintain a Code of Professional Ethics in the broad field of
agricultural consulting.
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Crop Data Management Services, Inc.
CDMS, Inc. provides software service to access crop protection product label, MSDS,
WPS and DOT information. MSDS
Supporting Manufacturers (addresses and
links to web pages).
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Get Set, Inc. "What the bugman does not want
you to know" (An Intelligent Pest Management Manual) by Stephen L. Tvedten.
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Pest Management at the Crossroads. This WWW site is
maintained as a public service and an experiment in electronic networking by Benbrook
Consulting Services. "Return to the Stone-Age of Management"
presentation to EPA Public Meeting on "Plant Pesticides Resistance
Management" "Pest Management at the Crossroads",
presentation at USDA Integrated Pest Management Seminar Series "Indicators of the
Sustainability and Impacts of Pest Management Systems", presented at AAAS 1997
Annual Meeting.
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National Alliance of
Independent Crop Consultants (NAICC),
founded in 1978, is the national society of agricultural professionals who
provide research and advisory services to clients for a fee. The 500+
members work from bases in 40 states and several foreign countries, and have
expertise in the production of most crops grown around the world.
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StratKirn Business
Consulting, Offering consulting
services in R&D management, and in market assessment, for clients who create
innovative new technology in the fields of food, feed and fiber improvement.
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Taylor and Francis-CRC
Press (Technomic),
Kimball Nill's Glossary
of Biotechnology Terms, Begin your search. Monsanto's
Biotechnology Knowledge Center,
Search
the Biotechnology Knowledge
Center.
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International Sites
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BIOSYS - To
facilitate understanding of the living world by helping researchers,
educators, students and others to access information relevant to the life
sciences. Index
to Organism Names ISI
Web of Knowledge
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Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) is a nonprofit
organization composed of scientific societies and many individual, student,
company, nonprofit, and associate society members.CAST assembles,
interprets, and communicates science-based information regionally,
nationally, and internationally on food, fiber, agricultural, natural
resource, and related societal and environmental issues to our
stakeholders--legislators, regulators, policy makers, the media, the private
sector, and the public.
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CropBiotech Update:
A weekly summary
of world developments in agri-biotech for developing countries, produced by
the Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology,
International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications
SEAsiaCenter (ISAAA).
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Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Pesticide Database
Web site, your one-stop location for current toxicity and regulatory information for
pesticides, maintained by
Pesticide Action Network North
America (PANNA),
Pesticide
Action Network (PAN)
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The National Academy of Sciences is
a private, non-profit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in
scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and
technology and to their use for the general welfare.
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Web-Agri,
The smart farming site by Hyltel. The Agricultural Search Engine!! |
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