Briefing Room

Animals |Beneficial Insects |Crops |General |Honey Bees |Nutrition |Pests |Tools |Natural Resources

Animals

• Influenza A Virus [briefing paper]
• Avian Influenza [briefing paper]

Beneficial Insects

• The Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle [briefing paper]

Crops

• Potato Central - Information on ARS's potato research.
• Pepper Portal - Information about ARS's pepper research.
• Huanglongbing (Citrus Greening): What ARS Is Doing [briefing paper]
• HoneySweet Plum Trees: A Transgenic Answer to the Plum Pox Problem [briefing paper]

General

• Agricultural Research Service's Agricultural Coexistence Efforts
• Overview of the USDA Agricultural Research Service[factsheet]

Honey Bees

• Protecting Our Pollinators
• Honey Bee Health and Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) [briefing paper]
• ARS Researchers Working to Solve the Honey Bee-Colony Collapse Disorder Mystery [electronic info kit]
• Honey Bees Selected by ARS Toss Out Varroa Mites [electronic info kit]

Nutrition

• Egg-splaining Egg Safety
• Sucromalt (html) or (pdf) [factsheet]
• 100% Fruit Bars (html) or (pdf) [factsheet]
• Sunflower Butter (html) or (pdf) [factsheet]

Pests

• Northern Giant Hornet (formerly Asian giant hornet)
• Controlling Bed Bugs [electronic info kit]
• Controlling Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs [electronic info kit]
• Deployed War-fighter Protection Research Program [electronic info kit]
• Rift Valley Fever Strategies (html) or (pdf) [factsheet]

Tools

• ComBase Bioinformatic Tool Reduces Scourge of Foodborne Illness
• USDA Unveils Updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map [map]
• ARS Develops Freeze Date Tool for Localities
• GRIN‐Global (Germplasm Resource Information System)
• Digging Deeper into Climate Change Data

Natural Resources

• Chesapeake Bay [electronic info kit]
• Composting: Nature's Way of Recycling Organic Materials (html) or (pdf) [factsheet]