Cooperative Agreement AP26PPQFO000C449
- The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded the State of Washington Department of Agriculture a cooperative agreement valued at $201,677 on July 1, 2026, to support honeybee disease and pest surveillance under the National Honeybee Survey. WSDA will receive live bee shipments from apiary inspectors in up to 25 U.S. states and territories and conduct diagnostic molecular testing to document which diseases, parasites, and pests of honeybees are present or...
- The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded the Washington State Department of Agriculture a Cooperative Agreement worth $251,458 on July 1, 2026, under the agency's invasive species management grant program to improve recognition and reporting of high-consequence federal and state priority invasive species throughout Washington state. Over the one-year performance period through June 30, 2027, WSDA will conduct awareness and engagement activities targeting...
- The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded Clemson University a cooperative agreement of $141,690 on August 1, 2026, to support eradication efforts against the yellow-legged hornet through the agency's civilian assistance programs. Clemson's Division of Research will establish a field-to-laboratory yellow-legged hornet acquisition system, assess the efficacy of hornet-killing microbes as a control method through direct exposure, and supply specimens to...
- The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded the State of Washington Department of Agriculture $385,684 under Cooperative Agreement AP26PPQFO000C285 on June 1, 2026, to conduct detection surveys for invasive Asian defoliating moths across Washington state's marine ports, waterways, and transportation corridors. The recipient will identify locations of introduced individuals and incipient populations of four species of Asian moths and implement timely...
- The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded the State of Washington Department of Agriculture $245,658 in a cooperative agreement effective May 1, 2026, to conduct delimiting surveys for Lymantria dispar (gypsy moth) and implement early detection and eradication programs across Washington State. The recipient will install and monitor L. dispar traps in delimiting grids around prior-season moth captures, deploy additional grids mid-season in response to...
- This $139,930 cooperative agreement from the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will support the delivery of molecular research services related to the Asian giant hornet. Colorado State University will conduct the second year of genomic sequencing and analysis to support eradication efforts for this species in Washington State and prevent further introductions into the U.S. Specific products include continuing to build genomic databases and sequence...
- The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded the State of Washington Department of Agriculture $150,000 in a Cooperative Agreement (AP26PPQFO000C316) on May 1, 2026, to conduct the Washington Stone Fruit Commodity Survey through April 30, 2027. WSDA will conduct trapping and visual survey strategies to detect five priority insect pests—Adoxophyes orana, Grapholita funebrana, Lobesia botrana, Rhagoletis cerasi, and Thaumatotibia leucotreta—and the secondary...
- The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded Clemson University $3.606 million under Cooperative Agreement AP26PPQFO000C415 on May 12, 2026, to support infrastructure and survey costs for yellow legged hornet detection and response in South Carolina through May 11, 2027. Clemson will fund staffing for one full-time state survey coordinator, one yellow legged hornet program coordinator, two full-time supervisory invasive species specialists, twelve full-time...
- The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded the State of Washington Department of Agriculture a $125,000 cooperative agreement on July 1, 2026, to conduct surveillance and eradication activities targeting non-native snail and slug species that threaten Washington's agricultural industries and export markets. The recipient will execute a threefold approach: routine visual surveys at high-likelihood introduction sites such as ports; continued delimitation and...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $280,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of the award is to conduct a survey program that will result in the timely identification of high-risk, exotic, invasive Asian moths that could threaten the agricultural and natural resources of...
The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded the State of Washington Department of Agriculture a $125,179 Cooperative Agreement on July 1, 2026, to detect and eliminate Yellow Legged Hornet from Washington State through surveillance, specimen tracking, and nest destruction. The recipient will delimit a 10 km area around confirmed or suspected detections of Yellow Legged Hornet in and surrounding Vancouver, Washington, and around any areas where the pest is detected elsewhere in Washington or in areas adjacent to detections in Oregon, using lethal hornet traps targeting queens through July 1st, 2026, then workers thereafter. The recipient will locate and eradicate any nests discovered through trapping results, beekeeper reports, or public reports using non-lethal trapping and tracking. Targeted recognition and reporting training will be provided to dockworkers at the Port of Vancouver, local beekeepers, and pest control operators. The program will solicit hornet reports from the general public in the Vancouver area through general hornet awareness and reporting outreach. The expected outcomes are maintenance of Washington State's non-infested status through early detection and eradication, protection of the state's agricultural industry (particularly apiculture), pollinators, fruit, and public health, and trained stakeholders across beekeeping, port operations, pest control, and the general public capable of detecting, reporting, and mitigating Yellow Legged Hornet impacts. Performance occurs in Washington. The period of performance runs from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $54.8k | 7/23/26 |