NECIS Joint Statement on H.R. 2811

Below, you'll find a joint statement from various NECIS organizations regarding H.R. 2811, which seeks to list as injurious under the Lacey Act the nine species studied by the U.S. Geological Survey in the report, "Giant Constrictors: Biological and Management Profiles and an Establishment Risk Assessment for Nine Large Species of Pythons, Anacondas, and the Boa Constrictor."

Joint Statement on H.R. 2811

15,000 reasons to worry about invasive species

See article about Wisconsin here: http://www.bradenton.com/living/living_green/story/1837435.html

Invasive species cause $1.4 trillion of losses a year!

See article about the International Congress on Biological Invasions, here: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/06/content_12400507.htm

Smithsonian magazine article about Asian Longhorned Beetle

For more information:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Invasion-of-the-Longhorns.html

New Pest - Megacopta cribraria (Bean plataspid) found on kudzu in Georgia

USDA-ARS Systematic Entomology Laboratory confirms Megacopta cribraria (Fabricius), a Plataspidae bug with the common name, Bean plataspid, was found on kudzu plants and in large numbers on structures in Winder, Barrow County, Georgia. The specimens were submitted by the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Science.
This is a new US record.

Tthe species is known from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and southward into southeast Asia and India. It feeds primarily on legumes such as garden beans (Phaseolus sp.) and soybeans.
For more information: http://www.caes.uga.edu/Applications/attachments/files/PestAlertForCounties.pdf and http://georgiafaces.caes.uga.edu/storypage.cfm?storyid=3868

New Book - Homeopathy for the Garden and Landscape - German Version

We frequently receive requests to use images in books and occasionally, the book is published in a language other than English. One such book has recently been published in German! Homoeopathie fuer Garten und Landwirtschaft or Homeopathy for the Garden and Landscape is now available through Narayana Verlag. I will have to brush up on my German to give it a proper review but I can certainly can appreciate the concept of the book.

National Invasive Species Awareness Week

National Invasive Species Awareness Week is January 10-14, 2010 in Washington, DC, for more information: http://www.nisaw.org/