Adam H. Putnam, Commissioner - Richard D. Gaskalla, Director

Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey Program
(CAPS)


CAPS logo turning, click to stop animation

State Survey Coordinator:
Leroy Whilby, DPM
Leroy.Whilby@freshfromflorida.com
P.O. Box 147100
Gainesville, Florida 32614-7100
352-372-3505 ext. 452

Program Manager:
Wayne N. Dixon, Ph.D.
Wayne.Dixon@freshfromflorida.com
P.O. Box 147100
Gainesville, Florida 32614-7100
352-372-3505 ext. 108

 

CAPS staff surveying sugarcane

MISSION

The Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey Program is a combined effort by state and federal agricultural agencies to conduct surveillance, detection, and monitoring of exotic plant pests of agricultural and natural plant resources and biological control agents. Survey targets include plant diseases, insects, weeds, nematodes, and other invertebrate organisms.




Above photos and graphics are from the Florida CAPS archives

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