Cooperative Agreement 5920301002F

This $117,047 cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) will support host-specificity testing of the biological control agent Dolichogenidea gelechiidivoris. This parasitic wasp is being evaluated as a potential long-term control option for the South American tomato pinworm, an invasive pest that poses a significant threat to...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $100,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) will support a comprehensive survey to detect the presence of several invasive agricultural pests in California. The survey will focus on identifying any incipient populations of the tomato leaf miner (Tuta absoluta), false codling moth (Thaumatotibia...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of California, San Diego has been awarded $209,300 under a Cooperative Agreement from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to develop improved genetic strains for Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) programs targeting Mediterranean fruit flies (medflies) and Mexican fruit flies (mexflies). The project, which commenced September 30, 2025, and concludes September 29, 2026, is funded under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest...

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded $132,156 under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care (CFDA 10.025) federal grant program to the University of California, San Diego for the development of genetically sterile Anastrepha ludens, or Mexican fruit fly, flies. The one-year cooperative agreement project aims to develop genetically sterile adult Mexican fruit flies for evaluation in sterile insect technique applications to protect...

Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of California Office of the President, Division of Agriculture & Natural Resources received a $392,448 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The award, effective November 1, 2025 through October 31, 2027, funds research and field optimization activities to operationalize the male...

This $457,606 cooperative agreement from the US Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will support the development of a classical biological control program to manage the Bagrada bug in California under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025). Activities include mass rearing the imported Bagrada bug parasitoid Gryon aetherium to make releases within California, developing identification tools for G. aetherium,...

The Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services Florida was awarded a $139,181 Cooperative Agreement from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care (CFDA 10.025) grant program. The purpose of this 12-month award is to develop and test a non-sticky, "dry" trap for monitoring the quarantine pest, tomato leaf miner (Phthorimaea absoluta; Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), as an alternative to the currently...

The Regents of the University of California at Riverside will conduct gene editing research on the glassy-winged sharpshooter to eliminate transmission of Xylella fastidiosa bacteria under a $102,839 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service. The research supports the agency's Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA #10.025) by working to protect U.S. agriculture from economically injurious plant and...

Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of Massachusetts received a $125,152 Cooperative Agreement from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), effective September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2027, to develop classical biological control methods for box tree moth, an invasive pest that damages boxwood plants. Under this agreement, the recipient maintains high-quality insect colonies, conducts host specificity experiments on parasitoids, and provides research support to...

This $201,210 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) is funding research on the use of mating disruption pheromones to control California red scale infestations in citrus crops in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The primary goal is to evaluate the efficacy of CheckMate pheromone dispensers for mating disruption as a viable...