Do you grow apples, pecans, or nursery crops?
Do you grow apples, pecans, or nursery crops?
With funding from the USDA’s Specialty Crop Research Initiative, our team of researchers is focusing on sustainable, long-term management of the invasive ambrosia beetle (AB) pests.
Learn about the scale of the biological, ecological, and economic risks of AB on orchards and nurseries and the basics of our plan to mitigate these risks.
Over 50 researchers from 14 institutions across the Eastern US are jointly collaborating on our project team. See the breakdown of researchers, directors, and participants, and what specific projects they are working on.
Learn about the types of ambrosia beetles that cause the most problems, see images of the beetles and damage, and more.
Ambrosia beetles are actually farmers! They don’t eat the trees they attack, but actually farm and eat a fungus. Ambrosia fungus and ambrosia beetles share the name because they rely so much on each other. Learn more about ambrosia fungus here.