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Cold Damage to PetuniaLady BugInsect and Plant Disease 
Diagnostic Laboratory

Since it’s inception in 1989, the Insect and Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab (IPDDL) has served over 25,000 citizens. Diagnoses were fielded for 2,500 specimens in 1999.  Inquiries arrive in the form of “walk-ins”, phone calls, e-mails, and regular mail.

Easy web site access offers visitors the opportunity to obtain fact sheets and photographs of various insects and plant diseases.  Educational inquiries come in from all over the world.  For example: 20,000 “visits” above the recorded standard numbers above were logged to the head lice fact sheet alone in 1999. 

The clinic operates year-round and offers diagnostic services to the public.  These services include plant disease identification, insect and insect injury identification, and nutritional and cultural problem assessment.  Maine’s potato IPM program also makes use of the clinic for aphid identification as well as disease assessment.Centipede

Funding for the clinic is obtained through commodity groups and special grants.  For more information about the clinic,
contact Clay Kirby (ckirby@umext.maine.edu), entomologist
Bruce Watt (bwatt@umext.maine.edu), plant pathologist or
Jim Dill (jdill@umext.maine.edu), pest management specialist

 

Bruce Watt, Plant Pathologist

  
 

Bruce looking at specimen

  How to send a plant

Plant Submission Form

Disease Lab

Plant Disease Fact Sheets

 Black Rot of Grape  
     
  Clay Kirby, Entomologist  
  Clay helping client

Submitting Insect Specimens

Insect Lab

Insect Fact Sheets

 Colorado Potato Beetle  

Contact/Shipping Information

University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Pest Management Office
491 College Avenue
Orono, ME  04473-1295

1-800-287-0279 (within Maine only)
Insect Inquiries:  207-581-2963 (local)
Disease Inquiries:  207-581-3883 (local)
207-581-3881 (fax)

Questions or comments about this page bwatt@umext.maine.edu

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Pest Management Office Last Modified: 11/19/08
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