Cooperative Agreement F15AC00043

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), supports critical activities to protect and create new habitats for the endangered Northeastern Beach Tiger Beetle. The $123,100 grant, awarded on July 1, 2024, funds a range of conservation actions, including: 1) Ongoing surveys and monitoring of the newly established beetle population in New Jersey to assess...

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources was awarded a $110,000 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 Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The award will fund a 1-year project to place traps and conduct visual surveys at pre-selected sites across Indiana, including state parks, campgrounds, log yards, sawmills, and other locations. The purpose is to...

This $115,250 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the United States 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 fund a survey to detect the presence of newly invading exotic wood-boring insect pests in California. The primary activities include deploying insect traps across 4-6 counties, conducting visual surveys, and submitting suspect samples to a...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), is intended to collect and analyze nationwide data on the recovery of four species of introduced parasitoids used as biological control agents for the invasive Emerald Ash Borer. The $199,270 award to the University of Maryland, College Park will fund the deployment of...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $300,000 Cooperative Agreement grant to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of the grant is to conduct surveys and outreach to delimit known infestations and detect potential new infestations of the invasive Spotted Lanternfly pest in Indiana. This will involve trapping and...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $126,352 Cooperative Agreement to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation (the Research Foundation) to conduct field trials and laboratory assays to determine if RNA interference can be used to control Japanese beetle. The award is funded under USDA's Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), which aims to protect U.S. agriculture from economically...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided 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 Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025), supports continued research on the effects and persistence of parasitoids of the invasive Emerald Ash Borer across the Midwest. The University of New Hampshire, through its Office of Sponsored Research, will monitor Emerald Ash Borer and parasitoid population...

This $145,149 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) will fund research to revise species limits and improve diagnostics for the Euwallacea bark beetle group, which includes numerous pest species. The project will use advanced molecular techniques to sequence museum specimens and conduct a morphological revision to clarify...

This cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service provides $129,850 to Michigan State University under the agency's Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025) to support ongoing field release of a fungal pathogen for biological control of the Japanese beetle from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023. Key activities include analyzing field-collected Japanese beetles to determine...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) awarded a $147,186 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Florida's Forest Entomology Lab under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of this 1-year agreement is to develop an AI-based invasive bark beetle screening tool to dramatically improve the USDA's wood borer survey monitoring capabilities. The key deliverables include an...