Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS)
Contacts
State Survey Coordinator: VACANT
Desk: (352) 395-4649
Program Manager: Dr. Leroy Whilby
Bureau Chief - Entomology, Nematology and Plant Pathology
Division of Plant Industry
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Desk: (352) 395-4661
Cell: (352) 256-9167
Leroy.Whilby@FreshFromFlorida.com
1911 SW 34th Street
P.O. Box 147100
Gainesville, FL. 32614-7100
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.
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