Oregon Department of Agriculture

I P P MI n s e c t P e s t P r e v e n t i o n & M a n a g e m e n tO r e g o n D e p a r t m e n t o f A g r i c u l t u r e

Why do we care?

It likes to eat what we eat.

300+ species

Photo credit: Muy Yum via Flickr

Oregon’s greenhouse and nursery industry is worth $829,909,000

Figure from 2014

Oregon’s fruit and nut crop is worth $602,764,000

Figure from 2014

Oregon’s wine industry is worth $118,320,000

Figure from 2015

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Why we are worried…

Prime habitat Lots of turf Well watered soil Lots of food sources

Current Efforts - Operations

Operations: Currently treated approximately 2,400 properties

Legal Notifications: Served administrative warrants for approximately 177 properties that have been unresponsive to ODA request for consent form

Current Efforts – Operations

Current Efforts - Operations

Operations: Real time GIS - Collector

Current Efforts - Containment

• Green Waste: Establish internal state quarantine according to OAR 602-052-0127

• Divert approximately 1,000 tons of yard debris from curbside pick to landfill for deep burial.

Current Efforts - Containment

• Establish a landscaper drop off containment site to route plant material for deep burial.

• Communicate with residents to give information to their landscapers (multi-lingual).

Current Efforts - Communications

• Used collaborative design methodologies and partners to develop communications plan (brainstorm, prioritization, iteration)

• Stakeholder brainstorm highlighted multiple and diverse partners, organizations, and residents that needed to touch the project in some way

• Art has been a crucial part of gaining ”brand” recognition of the program as well as an independent website

www.japanesebeetlepdx.info

Current Efforts - Communications

The Secret Weapon: Cedar Mill Community has been proactive, supportive, and highly engaged

Current Efforts: Surveillance

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2017 Proposed Japanese Beetle Delimitation Portland, Oregon

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Prepared By: kschwarz

Printing Date: Dec 6, 2016

Projection Information:

Name: NAD 1983 OR Statewide Lambert Ft Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic

Datum: North American 1983

File: \IPPM\PestsPrograms\Salem\JB\MapLib\

Portland_JB_Delimitations_2017_8x11.mxd

This product is for informational purposes and may not

have been prepared for, or be suitable for legal, engineering,

or surveying purposes. Users of this information should

review or consult the primary data and information sourcesto ascertain the usability of the information.

3,442 Total Proposed Traps, PDX: 752, Swan Island: 382, NW Portland: 2,308

JB Delimitation Trap

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Current Efforts: Biological Control

• Initiate / participate in a national effort to revive classical biological at high risk sites (airports, nurseries)

• Contracting with Symbiont Biological Control to gather base line data from historic establishment sites

• Establish quarantine lab for JB and Tiphia vernalis at Oregon State University

• Provide JB specimen from Oregon to the USDA APHIS CPHST to screen for the presence of fungal pathogen Ovavesicula

Oregon Japanese Beetle Situation Summary

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X Legal Authority

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X Industry Involvement

Policy related questions

How can we work together to protect agricultural and natural resources in the Pacific Northwest from the domestic movement of destructive species? How can we prioritize stable funding to implement preventative measures to reduce the need for costly mitigation projects?

Conclusion The Oregon Department of Agriculture is planning to eradicate the Japanese beetle in Cedar Mill beginning in Spring 2017

Failure will result in decreased quality of life, increased pesticide use, costly quarantines.

www.japanesebeetlepdx.info