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Massachusetts

Contact Information
  • Corte-Real, Lee - State Plant Regulatory Official (617-626-1776)
  • Serves on the National Plant Board, oversees state level pest detection and regulatory activities and coordinates survey activities between government agencies, public and private sector organizations. Also coordinates the state's initial emergency response if an exotic pest is detected.

  • Forman Orth, Jennifer - State Survey Coordinator (617-626-1735)
  • Coordinates annual survey planning, execution and reporting as well as community outreach activities.

  • Douglass, Patty - State Plant Health Director (203-269-4277)
  • Directs federal APHIS-PPQ pest detection and regulatory activities in cooperation with state officials, and coordinate the initial PPQ emergency response if an exotic pest is detected in the state.

  • Campbell, Nichole - Pest Survey Specialist (203-269-4277)
  • Provides technical support to the SSC in planning, executing and reporting annual surveys and coordinates pest detection activities with neighboring states.

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Links
Massachusettes Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS)
Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
Report ALB sighting
UMass Extension
UMass Amherst Department of Plant Soil and Insect Science
Prohibited Plant List
Massachusetts Fact Sheet
Mile-A-Minute: Similar Species Guide
National Ash Tree Seed Collection Initiative
Help Needed: Fight Mile-a-Minute Vine
Beetle Busters
Introduced Pests Outreach Project
Northeast Plant Diagnostic Network

CAPS 2009 Survey Targets   
Common Name Scientific Name Options
Asian Longhorned Beetle Anoplophora glabripennis Pest Info | NAPIS Map | APHIS-PPQ Page
Black spruce beetle Tetropium castaneum Pest Info | NAPIS Map
Brown Spruce Longhorned Beetle Tetropium fuscum Pest Info | NAPIS Map
Daylily rust Puccinia hemerocallidis Pest Info | NAPIS Map
Emerald Ash Borer Agrilus planipennis Pest Info | NAPIS Map | APHIS-PPQ Page
European oak leafroller Tortrix viridana Pest Info
Giant hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum Pest Info | NAPIS Map
Japanese Pine Sawyer Monochamus alternatus Pest Info | NAPIS Map
Lesser spruce shoot beetle Hylurgops palliatus Pest Info | NAPIS Map
Light brown apple moth Epiphyas postvittana Pest Info | NAPIS Map | APHIS-PPQ Page
mile-a-minute weed Polygonum perfoliatum Pest Info | NAPIS Map
Perennial pepperweed Lepidium latifolium Pest Info | NAPIS Map
Pine shoot beetle Tomicus piniperda Pest Info | NAPIS Map | APHIS-PPQ Page
Summer Fruit Tortrix Moth Adoxophyes orana Pest Info | NAPIS Map
Viburnum leaf beetle Pyrrhalta viburni Pest Info | NAPIS Map