University Sites
- Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America, Cornell University.
- IPM and Biological Control in Florida, Concepts of IPM and Biological Control, a site dedicated to the Delivery of IPM and Biological Control Information and Technology.
- 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available on the World Wide Web (WWW), they have created the University of Florida "Best of the Bugs" WWW site award (no longer active).
- IPM North Carolina The North Carolina Extension program has developed a new webiste devoted to IPM.
- Featured Creatures: Great insect pictures, with new creatures featured every month
Project Leader: Thomas R. Fasulo, University of Florida. - Integrated Pest Management at Iowa State IPM page maintained by John VanDyk. This one is a must!
- 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.
- Plant & Insect Parasitic Nematode Home Page Everything you ever wanted to know about neamtodes from the Department of Plant pathology, University of Nebraska.
- Society of Nematologists
- The Pesticide Management Education Program at Cornell University
- 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.
- 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.
- VegEdge: Vegetable IPM Resource for the Midwest, University of Minnesota Extension Service
U.S. and State Government Sites
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Biotechnology Website
- Centers for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC)
- Minnesota Department of Agriculture
- California School IPM Program
- National Biological Impact Assessment Program (NBIAP) Information Systems for Biotechnology (ISB), information on agricultural and environmental biotechnology research, product development, regulatory issues, and biosafety.
- National Genetic Resources Information Network (GRIN) The Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) web server provides germplasm information about plants, animals, microbes and invertebrates within the National Genetic Resources Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
- National USDA Regional IPM Centers
- NSF Center for Integrated Pest Management
CIPM has positioned itself as a provider of unbiased IPM knowledge and technology. The increased importance of food security and invasive species had led to a close working relationship between CIPM and a number of federal agencies, including USDA/CSREES. USDA APHIS, USDA Risk Management Agency and Homeland Security. - 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.
- Northern Prairie Wildlife Center, This Internet site of the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey emphasizes topics and data pertinent to the North American Great Plains.
- 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.
- 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.
- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
- Cooperative States Research, Extension and Educuation Service (CSREES), replaced by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
- Forest Service (FS)
- National Agricultural Library (NAL)
- Natural Resources and Conservation Service (NRCS)
- Economic Research Service (ERS)
- Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
- National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
- USDA Agencies and Staff Offices
- 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).
Commercial Sites
- Crop Life America
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 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. - 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).
- Get Set, Inc. "What the bugman does not want you to know" (An Intelligent Pest Management Manual) by Stephen L. Tvedten.
- Pest Management at the Crossroads. This WWW site was 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kimball Nill's Glossary of Biotechnology Terms
- Bayer's Biotechnology Knowledge Center
Private Sites
- 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.
- CLARIVATE - 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
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.
Professional Society Sites
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science Online, Science Now
- American Phytopathological Society, The premier international scientific organization devoted to the study of plant diseases and their control. APSnet, APSnet: Education Center.
- Annual Reviews, Inc. A nonprofit scientific publisher of systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in a number of fields of science through critical authoritative reviews: Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Annual Review of Entomology, Annual Review of Resources and the Environment, Annual Review of Phytopathology, Annual Review of Plant Biology.
- Entomological Society of America Promoting the science of entomology in all of its subdisciplines for the advancement of science and the benefit of society, North Central Branch, Pacific Branch, Southeastern Branch, and Southwestern Branch.
- Entomological Society of Ontario Beautifully maintained home page of the second oldest entomological society in North America.
- Michigan Entomological Society Home page of 600 member strong society of amateur and professional entomologists.
- Potato Association of America, The official professional society for potato research, extension, utilization and technical assistance.
- Weed Science Society of America Handsome home pages of the WSSA, promoting the development of weed science and technology.