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West Virginia University Plant Diagnostic Clinic (NEPDN)

Give us a little history of your lab.

The diagnostic lab has been in operation since 1995 and serves the entire state of West Virginia. We average about 500 samples a year. A biologist with the West Virginia Department of Agriculture cooperates with the lab primarily by providing entomological diagnoses. Our lab is not yet STAR-D accredited.

Eva Grimme, Montana State University, and Lina Rodriguez-Salamanca, Iowa State University

When identifying mushrooms, some key information will make your efforts more successful:

Karen Vail, University of Tennessee Entomology and Plant Pathology Department, Knoxville

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New Plant Pathogen and Insect Diagnostician at the University of Tennessee:
Eleanor (Ellie) Lopez

Dear NPDN Community,

By Cindy Music
 

By Meg Williamson and Tania Brenes-Arguedas
 
The Online Communications and Web Portal Committee has been hard at work updating the NPDN website and reimagining the newsletter. Our committee consists of the following members: Meg Williamson, chair; Clarissa Balbalian, vice chair; Tania Brenes-Arguedas, champion; Frank Hale; Yonghao Li; Rachel Moore; Keiddy Urrea; and Shouhua Wang. 
 

 By James Woodhall (University of Idaho, Parma), Lina Rodriguez Salamanca (Iowa State University)
 

By Matt Bertone & Cynthia Music

Photo legend: Can you spot the bark vs. ambrosia beetles in the photo above? Top: an ambrosia beetle, Ambrosiodmus sp. (Scolytinae); Center: an ash bark beetle, Hylesinus aculeatus (Scolytinae); Bottom: pinhole borer or ambrosia beetle, Euplatypus compositus  (Platypodinae)