Bugwood enters the world of Flickr

We've recently added the Bugwood Network to the many users of Flickr. A endevour started by Yahoo, this popular photo sharing site has an insane amount of images from a very large membership. Many of the images are high-resolution and some are even of pests that we have been looking for images of.

In this spirit, we opened a group on labled Plant Health Images - Insect and Disease. We look at any of the images added to this group and select those that would be useful. We then contact the photographer and hopefuly get permission to add it to the image achive at Bugwood.

If you are a Flickr user and have an image that you think we may be interested in, please add it to the group. If you see an image on Flickr that would be useful, drop the author a note and ask them to send it to us.

Plants of Hawaii images added from Forest and Kim Starr

Recently, we were fortunate to find the work done by Forest and Kim Starr. They have been creating an image library of Hawaiian plants and animals. Over the past decade, they have complied over 45,000 image! They have graciously allowed us to add some of these image to the Bugwood Network image archive. While it will take us a while to sort through everything, you can see the first images at the following link:

http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/autimages.cfm?aut=41896

You can also find their site with all of the images and information at:http://www.hear.org/starr/index.html

Montage images from J.R. Baker & S.B. Bambara at North Carolina State University

We recently recieved an excellent set of images from J.R. Baker & S.B. Bambara at North Carolina State University. These images of Scolytines and Platypodid beetles were taken using a Montage imaging system. Many of the images focus on key identification features of these beetles. This set can be seen at:

http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/autimages.cfm?aut=41812

Images from the Esmat M. Hegazi at the University of Alexandria in Egypt

Many of you may be aware of our project to support the Southern Plant Diagnostic Network by finding images of current and potential pests. Since many of our pests are introduced from other countries, we have been looking abroad for people that may have some relevant images.

Esmat M. Hegazi at the University of Alexandria in Egypt has been very helpfull in helping us find some of the images we have been looking for. He has provided images of both Egyptian cottonworm (Spodoptera littoralis) and leopard moth (Zeuzera pyrina). You can see these on his author page at the following link:

http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/autimages.cfm?aut=41228

Rich Gillis contributes an image collection from Dow Gardens

We recently added over 1,100 images taken by Rich Gilis, the collections manager of Dow Gardens in Midland, Michigan. These images show a wide variety of plants in the gardens and many different cultivars of some popular ornamental plants.

All of his images can be found at:http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/autimages.cfm?aut=41244

New images from Johnny N. Dell

We recently received a nice set of images from Johnny N. Dell in Ware County, Georgia. These images include a wide range of arthropods commonly found in Georgia.

All of his images can be found at:http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/autimages.cfm?aut=31253

New publication - Invasive Plant Responses to Silvicultural Practices in the South

The new bugwood publication "Invasive Plant Responses to Silvicultural Practices in the South" is now available online at: http://www.invasive.org/silvicsforinvasives.pdf