Plant Health
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- CDFA Pest Hotline:
1-800-491-1899 - Contact Your Local County Agriculture Department
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Division Resources
- Bringing Plants and Animals into California
- California Border Protection
- Current Eradication and Quarantine Projects
- Exotic Fruit Fly Treatment (Eradication)
- Honeybee and Beehive Information Links
- Nursery Services
- PEST FACT SHEETS: CDFA Entomology Lab
- PEST PROFILES: Target Pests and Diseases
- Plant Pest Diagnostics Center
- Plant Quarantine Manual
More Resources
- CDFA Kids' Page
- California MultiMedia
- California YouTube
- INVASIVES: Pests and Diseases
- National Plant Board
- North American Plant Protection Organization - Official Pest Reports
- Pesticide Regulation (Dept. of)
- State Employment Opportunities
- UC Integrated Pest Management Program
- USDA/PPQ Manuals
- Wood-boring Beetles of the World - an interactive identification resource
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Protecting Californias agricultural and natural resources against damage caused by exotic plant pests and diseases
Hot Topics
- BRINGING PINE OR FIR ITEMS (SUCH AS TREES, WREATHS, ETC.) TO CALIFORNIA
- ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLID (ACP) AND HUANGLONGBING (HLB)
- GYPSY MOTH (GM)
- LIGHT BROWN APPLE MOTH (LBAM)
- MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY (MEDFLY)
- MEXICAN FRUIT FLY (MFF)
- ORIENTAL FRUIT FLY (OFF)
- TARGET PESTS AND DISEASES
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- Medfly Exclusion Program
- Pink Bollworm Program
- Purple Loosestrife Project
- Tristeza Virus Program
- Vertebrates Program
- Weed Eradication Program
- Weed Management Areas Program
- Yellow Starthistle Mapping Project
- Export Status of CA Specialty Crops
- CDFA Notification for County Ag Posting
- Directory of Licensed Nurseries
- Approved Non-Host Shipping Nurseries
- Nursery Services
- Nursery License Renewal Program
- PHPPS Extranet
- Phytosanitary Advisories
- Plant Pest Diagnostics Center
- Plant Quarantine Manual
- Seed: Phytosanitary Field Inspection Application
- Seed Law Enforcement
About PHPPS
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The California Department of Food and Agricultures Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services (PHPPS) mission is to provide leadership of pest prevention and management programs that effectively protects Californias agriculture, horticulture, natural resources, and urban environments from invasive plant pests. In California, a series of federal and state plant quarantine laws and regulations are enforced to restrict the entry and movement of commodities capable of harboring targeted plant pests and to enable our eradication and control efforts. This approach of prohibiting or restricting the movement of plants, plant products or other commodities, capable of harboring exotic plant pests, is done in the interest of food security. In this case, the public insurance of a safe and secure food and fiber supply is based on the premise that it is more economically and environmentally sound to prevent the entry and establishment of dangerous plant pests than to live with them.
Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services
1220 "N" Street
Sacramento, California 95814
Phone 916-654-0317
Fax 916-654-1018
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