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Cooperative Extension Service Communications and Technology Department 3354 1000 E. University Ave. Laramie, WY 82071 (307) 766-2540 • fax (307) 766-3998 • ces.uwyo.edu |
For Immediate Release
Contact: Robert Waggener, Editor
Phone: (307) 766-3571
E-mail: robertw@uwyo.edu
Date: March 15, 2007
Wyoming
grasshopper field guide updated
The field guide Common Wyoming Pest Grasshoppers has been updated with new photographs and clarified text and is now in its third printing.
The free handbook is available from the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service (UW CES).
UW CES collaborated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-Plant Protection and Quarantine (APHIS-PPQ).
The pocketsize booklet includes photos and information on the 17 most problematic grasshopper species that cause economic injury to agricultural producers in Wyoming and the West, says one of the authors, Scott Schell, an assistant entomologist with UW CES.
Co-authors are Alex Latchininsky, an assistant professor with the UW College of Agriculture’s Department of Renewable Resources and an entomology specialist with UW CES, and Bruce Shambaugh, plant health director of the Wyoming office of APHIS-PPQ.
New pictures were added and the text was updated in several places to help with identification, Schell says.
“The main purpose of the handbook is to help with the identification of grasshoppers and management techniques to aid in control efforts,” Schell says. “This guide includes details on how to identify grasshoppers in their nymph stage. This is the stage where control efforts are most effective.”
Schell says more than 2,000 of the handbooks have been distributed throughout Wyoming and the West.
“We just had a request to send 50 of them to Arizona,” Schell says.
Copies may be obtained by e-mailing the College of Agriculture’s Resource Center at bixbyd@uwyo.edu or calling the center at (307) 766-2115.
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