The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded a $101,860 Cooperative Agreement to The Bee Informed Partnership, Inc., a non-profit organization, under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of this agreement is for The Bee Informed Partnership to conduct honey bee surveys and sampling in six states that could not perform this work themselves as part of the National Honey Bee Survey. The resulting...
The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded a $101,800 Cooperative Agreement to The Bee Informed Partnership, Inc. under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025). The award will fund honey bee surveys and sampling in six states that cannot conduct the work themselves as part of the National Honey Bee Survey. The Bee Informed Partnership will collect samples to be analyzed by the University of Maryland...
This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $100,000.00, was granted by the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The primary purpose of this agreement is to develop an inclusive dataset of viral and non-viral targets of interest that can be used for correlative analysis with management, loss, pesticide, pest, and disease data. The...
The Bee Informed Partnership, Inc. will receive a $142,676 cooperative agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025). Through this funding, the Bee Informed Partnership will determine the composition, diversity, and recombination rates of deformed wing virus variants in honey bee and Varroa mite populations across U.S. commercial...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement 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). The primary purpose of this 1-year agreement is to develop an inclusive dataset of viral and non-viral targets that can be used for analyzing the occurrence of honey bee diseases and pests. The completed dataset will cover the...
This $100,000 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) supports the Ramsey Research Foundation's work to collect and study honey bee pests from the Tropilaelaps genus. The project aims to address gaps in knowledge that prevent effective emergency response planning for pest incursions in the U.S. by determining how to better detect...
This $180,000 Cooperative Agreement award 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) aims to enhance honeybee health. The primary objectives are to detect new invasive pests (Tropilaelaps sp.) and assess the spread of insecticide resistance in the major honeybee pests, the Varroa mite and Small Hive Beetle. The award was made to Florida A&M University, a...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) provides $232,690.00 in funding to the State of Washington Department of Agriculture (WSDA) to conduct honeybee surveys and sampling in 41 states as part of the National Honey Bee Survey. The purpose is to document which diseases, parasites and pests of honeybees are...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is part of the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care (CFDA 10.025) federal grant program. The primary purpose is to provide IT support to maintain and enhance the Global Pest and Disease Database (GPDD) and Pest Advisory Groups (PAGs) Database. These databases assist USDA APHIS Plant Pest Risk Analysis (PPRA) staff in developing pest risk...
This $369,491 cooperative agreement from the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will provide information technology support for web applications that assist with plant pest risk analysis through December 31, 2022. Specifically, the North Carolina State University awardee will maintain the Global Pest and Disease Database and Pest Advisory Groups Database, develop an updated version of the former, and create a new pest database for export teams. These online...