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plant pests

 Subject
Subject Source: Nalt
Scope Note: Organisms that may directly or indirectly cause disease, spoilage, or damage to plants, plant parts or processed plant materials. Common examples include certain insects, mites, nematodes, fungi, molds, viruses, and bacteria.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Entomology Lantern Slide Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0074
Content Description

The Entomology Lantern Slide Collection consists of glass positive images of insects, a lantern slide projector, and some unidentified equipment.

Dates: 1908-1939
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0235
Content Description The USDA Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine Collection contains materials related to the Japanese beetle, the mountain pine beetle, and Dutch elm disease. There are black and white photographs, bark samples, insect specimens, and framed examples of foliage damage from the insects. Text accompanies the samples. In 2018, ten undated postcards were added from the Bureau of Entomology, depicting mostly parasites of the gypsy moth and the brown-tail moth, as well as representing the gypsy...
Dates: 1940
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Sugar Crops Section Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0239
Content Description The USDA Sugar Crops Section Records include data sheets, reports, and manuscripts written by various employees; slides, negatives, and photographs of sugar beets; correspondence of George Herbert Coons and Dewey Stewart; and other research files related to sugar beets. The materials are primarily from the administrations of George Herbert Coons and Dewey Stewart. Coons was the principal pathologist of the Division of Sugar Plant Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry during the 1930s and...
Dates: 1926-1960
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections