Louisville Slugger spreads the word about Emerald Ash Borer

Daniel Gilrein recently alerted the OrnEnt Listserv to a new addition for the The Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat Company. They have an EAB link on its home page that directs visitors to "Questions and Answers about the Emerald Ash Borer". The link to the website and article may be found at http://www.slugger.com/press/EAB.html.

Ohio State Weed Pictures

We just received a large set of images from Ohio State University. These images cover a wide variety of weed species found in the mid-west. There are over 3000 pictures in this collection, while not all of these images are currently available, they will be in the weeks to come. These images are available at The Ohio State Weed Lab archive.

BugwoodWiki is born!

We have just released a new addition the the Bugwood Network Family of sites: BugwoodWiki. The hope is that this will be a usefull tool for specialists to give information about various topics.

We also plan to make the content "portable"...If you want to take a page for use in a factsheet, you can grab the body of page (comlete with images and citations) and display it on your one site with your own header and footer.

Take a trip to the BugwoodWiki and give it a try. Please "pardon our dust" as this is still a work in progress. If you wish to submit content to the site, please contact Joe LaForest

New plant images from Czechia

Jan Samanek has sent us another great set of images. Many of the species he photographed are considered invasive species both in the United Stated and Czechia. You can view the latest images at this link.

New Images from Frank Peairs

We have just received a fine set of images from Frank Peairs at Colorado State University. These images cover a wide range of insects found in corn, rice, millet, wheat, and other grains. These images are available at the author page of Frank Peairs

Direct Searching of the Bugwood Image Database from Internet Explorer

While investigating the features of Internet Explorer 7, I found the tools that let you search any website from the tool bar on your browser. This is a pretty niffty feature since it can save a few steps in going to the page and finding the right place to enter a search.

For instance, to add a search of IPMImages.org, open IE7, click on the down arrow next to the magnifying glass in the upper right hand corner, and select "Find More Providers...".

The box on the right gives you the option and instructions to create your own search link. Continuing the example of IPMImages, you would enter "http://www.ipmimages.org/search/action.cfm?q=TEST" into the blank for step 3 and "IPMImages.org" into the blank for step 4. After you press "Install", you are done! To choose a provider to search, select the same down arrow next to the magnifying glass and search box and choose "IPMImages". Any search you enter will go directly to our site

Changes to the image tags used in the Bugwood Network

We try very hard to make sure that the photographer and the organization they work for receive credit whenever an image is used. Although all of our image detail pages have the citation including the photographers name and organization, there has been some confusion as to the origin of the images based on the tag we apply to the lower right-hand corner of each image...it starts with the prefix 'UGA'

The 'UGA' was meant to denote that the image came from an image archive run by UGA…not that UGA was the source of the image. There were a few reasons that we started tagging images.

• We spend quite a bit of time putting together the image archive and would like people to know where to find the image and the information pertaining to it.
• Tagging each image provides a link to our image database and a way for people to easily find a particular image.

As of today, we have stopped using 'UGA' on our image tags. This will mainly apply to new images in the system. We are still tagging the images with a 7-digit number and searching by this number in our system or even on web searches like Google or Yahoo will return that particular image. Hopefully, the "black and white tag in the lower right" will act as a signal to most people that the image and it's information can be found in the Bugwood Image Database.