CAPS:  Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey

The CAPS program is a cooperative effort between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) and The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES). Through the CAPS Program, surveys are conducted to detect or delimit exotic plant pests - insects, weeds and diseases that are not known to occur in the U.S. or have been recently introduced through U.S. ports of entry or other pathways. CAPS surveys and other monitoring activities strive to protect agriculture and natural resources and to prevent economic and environmental losses.

The CAPS State Survey Committee in Connecticut (see link below) serves as an advisory group for CAPS survey activities in the state. Committee members meet several times per year to provide input on upcoming exotic pest surveys, discuss survey results and share relevant information on pest occurrences in Connecticut. Pest distribution data from surveys and other sources provided by State Survey Committee members is submitted to a national database. This information is available for retrieval upon request.

ACCOMPLISHMENT REPORTS

STATE PEST LISTS:

• 2013 Connecticut Pest List (PDF Format)
• 2014 Connecticut Pest List (PDF Format)
• 2016 Connecticut Pest List (PDF Format)

   WORKPLANS:

   2016

• Infrastructure (PDF Format)
• Survey (PDF Format) 

Meeting Minutes:

• June 2013 (PDF Format)
• June 2015 (PDF Format)

• http://ceris.purdue.edu/napis/caps.html  Summary of the National Program
• http://ceris.purdue.edu/napis/index.html NAPIS homepage (National Agricultural Pest Information System), .pdf of CAPS summary with color photos.
• http://ceris.purdue.edu/napis/states/ct/index.html  Connecticut CAPS Summary Page, News items, Annual Summary, Final and Semi-Annual Reports.
• http://ceris.purdue.edu/napis/pests/index.html   Pest page under NAPIS that includes pest alerts, fact sheets and other information for CAPS pests, such as emerald ash borer and sudden oak death.
• http://www.hort.uconn.edu/cipwg Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group
• http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/oak.htm DEFRA, Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, UK
• http://suddenoakdeath.org California Oak Mortality Task Force

• giant hogweed
• mile-a-minute vine 
• lily leaf beetle

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