Eastern Plant Board Meeting

Last week I attended the annual meeting of the Eastern Plant Board, in Charleston, West Virginia. The EPB is part of the National Plant Board, an organization made up of the plant pest regulatory agencies from every state in the union (plus Puerto Rico). There was a lot of business covered over the three days of the meeting, plus we also got to hear some good talks, including one about trapping methods for insect sampling (that's a bucket funnel pheromone trap, used for trapping moths, to the right of this paragraph).

While I was not fortunate enough to get to see West Virginia's emerald ash borer quarantine zone, a bunch of us did get to visit the WV Department of Agriculture offices, where they have the largest collection of locally-trapped insects in the state, including this whole slew of locust leaf miners (Odontota dorsalis, a native leaf beetle that particularly enjoys the leaves of the black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia):