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USDA’s Cutting-Edge Methods Help Deliver a Victory Against Asian Giant Hornet

October 29, 2020 Greg Rosenthal, Communications Specialist, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

After weeks of searching, Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) entomologists–—using a radio tag provided by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and a trap developed by the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service–— have located and eradicated the first Asian giant hornet (AGH)...

Animals

APHIS Wildlife Biologists Aid Squirrel Recovery on the Delmarva

October 22, 2020 Margaret “Marnie” Pepper, District Supervisor, APHIS-Wildlife Services, Chesapeake Bay Nutria Eradication Project/Detector Dog Program

Many claim that 2020 has been a year of chaos and calamity, but for one rare squirrel, it might be a year of hope and new beginnings. The Delmarva Fox Squirrel (DFS) is a subspecies of fox squirrel found on the eastern shore of Maryland, Southern Delaware and Virginia. This pudgy, slow squirrel with...

Animals Conservation