The Division of Plant Industry is the regulatory agency within the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that is responsible for protecting Florida’s native and commercially-grown plants from harmful pests and diseases. DPI also protects Florida’s apiary industry. Three bureaus are located at DPI headquarters in Gainesville – Plant and Apiary Inspection; Entomology, Nematology and Plant Pathology; and Method Development and Biological Control. The remaining two bureaus, Pest Eradication and Control, and Citrus Budwood Registration, are in Winter Haven. DPI also has one of the world’s largest arthropod collections, a museum that houses over 8.5 million pinned insects and non-insect arthropods, as well as special collections of bulk samples and vial samples in alcohol from around the world. These samples comprise a significant resource of an estimated 100 million specimens from many unique and disappearing habitats.

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Image	Subject Name	Scientific Name	Description
5384988	apple snails	Pomacea spp.	shell
5488865	Septoria leaf spot	Septoria mikaniae-micranthae	Detail on leaves of Mikania micrantha showing patchy damage from Septoria mikania-micranthae.
5488866	mile-a-minute	Mikania micrantha	Mikania micrantha growing on the fenceline of an abandoned nursery in Homestead, Florida.
5488862	mile-a-minute	Mikania micrantha	Recent sprouts of Mikania micrantha recover after rouging efforts a month prior.
5488859	mile-a-minute	Mikania micrantha	Mikania micrantha grows rampantly inside and outside of a shade house in Homestead, Florida.
5488858	mile-a-minute	Mikania micrantha	Mikania micrantha bursts into seed early one winter at an abandoned nursery in Homestead, Florida.
5488864	climbing hempweed	Mikania scandens	Mikania scandens grows beside a lake in Davie, Florida.
5488860	mile-a-minute	Mikania micrantha	A large pile of Mikania micrantha seed has drifted into a pocket at this abandoned nursery in Homestead, Florida.
5488863	climbing hempweed	Mikania scandens	Mikania scandens growing on the shoreline of a canal at Shark Valley in the Florida Everglades.
5488867	mile-a-minute	Mikania micrantha	Mikania micrantha covering the grounds of an abandoned nursery in Homestead, Florida.
5222081	cedar-apple rust	Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae	cedar apple rust life cycle
4824052	whitefringed beetles	Naupactus spp.	Sweep net survey - adults collected on agricultural fields planted to pines following peanut production.
5263067	daylily rust	Puccinia hemerocallidis
5264096	black spot	Diplocarpon rosae
5384990	spiketop applesnail	Pomacea diffusa
5261095	Southern bacterial wilt	Ralstonia solanacearum (except Race 3 Biovar 2)
5261092	Southern bacterial wilt	Ralstonia solanacearum (except Race 3 Biovar 2)
5261093	Southern bacterial wilt	Ralstonia solanacearum (except Race 3 Biovar 2)
5261094	Southern bacterial wilt	Ralstonia solanacearum (except Race 3 Biovar 2)
5264085	Southern bacterial wilt	Ralstonia solanacearum (except Race 3 Biovar 2)
5372297	Cercospora fungi	Cercospora spp.
5384828	Sugarcane Mosaic Virus	Potyvirus SCMV
5196082	Asian citrus psyllid	Diaphorina citri
5385124	giant whitefly	Aleurodicus dugesii
5262083	Phytophthora tropicalis	Phytophthora tropicalis
5257093	late blight	Phytophthora infestans
5384991	European brown snail	Cornu aspersum
5384992	European brown snail	Cornu aspersum
5374026	Potato Virus Y	Potyvirus PVY
5384994	European brown snail	Cornu aspersum
5289096	old world climbing fern	Lygodium microphyllum
5289097	old world climbing fern	Lygodium microphyllum
5374038	Potato Virus Y	Potyvirus PVY
1546050	pine scale	Phenacaspis heterophyllae
5469846	twig girdler	Oncideres wappesi
5469447	twig girdler	Trestonia morrisi
5454330	parasitoid wasp	Encarsia lahorensis
5440191	mealybug destroyer	Cryptolaemus montrouzieri	The coccinellid beetle, Cryptolaemus montrouzieri, has been established as a biocontrol in Florida. It is a documented predator of Nipaecoccus viridis, with both larvae and adults feeding on the mealybug. Photo taken 1 OCT 2010 in Boynton Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida.
5440192	mealybug destroyer	Cryptolaemus montrouzieri	The coccinellid beetle, Cryptolaemus montrouzieri, has been established as a biocontrol in Florida. It is a documented predator of Nipaecoccus viridis, with both larvae and adults feeding on the mealybug. Photo taken 1 OCT 2010 in Boynton Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida.
5440169	armyworms	Spodoptera spp.	Established Spodoptera spp. collected in yellow/white bucket trap baited with lure for Spodoptera litura as part of long-term CAPS monitoring program. Photo taken 1 MAY 2011 in Homestead, Miami-Dade County, Florida.
4823066	Leptographium root disease	Leptographium procerum	Various insects feeding on roots vector infection. Resin-impregnated soil crusts form at feeding or boring sites. Xylem becomes resin "soaked".
5444581	giant East African snail	Achatina fulica	A Giant African Snail, /Achatina fulica/, rests in the hand of Dr. Fred Zimmerman (USDA-APHIS) after its capture in a residential neighborhood in Miami, Florida.
5444582	giant East African snail	Achatina fulica	A Giant African Snail, /Achatina fulica/, climbs and feeds amidst the /Ficus/ growing on a residence in Miami, Florida.
5444583	giant East African snail	Achatina fulica	A Giant African Snail, /Achatina fulica/, climbs the side of a City of Miami waste bin, suggesting a possible vector by which the snail might be transported around the city.
4822053	mistletoes	Phoradendron spp.	clumps developing in tree crown
4823017	hispidus canker	Inonotus hispidus	Old dark colored conk at base of tree
4823094	annosum root disease	Heterobasidion annosum	Small bracket-like basidiomata (right of pen)at base of infected stump. Note brownish upper surfaces and white margins /undersurfaces.
4823097	annosum root disease	Heterobasidion annosum	Incipient resinosis with associated clump of resin-impregnated soil around infected root.
4823096	annosum root disease	Heterobasidion annosum	3/4 of vascular tissue resin soaked (note discoloration).
4823033	brown spot needle blight of pine	Mycosphaerella dearnessii	needle lesions with linear black perithecial stromata developing in the necrotic areas
4823064	Rhizosphaera needle cast	Rhizosphaera kalkhoffii	Conidiomata emerging from stomatal pores of a necrotic needle.
4823023	frost and winter injury (general)		resprouts on freeze-damaged stems
4825028	Neonectria canker	Neonectria galligena	rough bark at root collar.
4824059	charcoal rot	Macrophomina phaseolina	Wilting and discoloration of infected seedlings.
4824026	Diplodia tip blights	Diplodia spp.	D. pini causing branch flagging.
4824027	Diplodia tip blights	Diplodia spp.	D. pini causing a resinous stem canker
4823069	ectomycorrhizae	Pisolithus tinctorius	Sporocarp in bareroot nursery bed. Munson Forest Nursery, Florida USA
4823056	pine needle cast	Lophodermella cerina	Hysterothecia, small (1-2 mm), black elongated fruting bodies which produce ascospores, on necrotic needles. Also present are the smaller conidiomata.
4823034	brown spot needle blight of pine	Mycosphaerella dearnessii	Infected older foliage of grass stage seedling. New needles at top of plant are not yet infected.
4822063	ash rusts	Puccinia sparganioides	Leaf distortion, petiole hypertrophy and distinctive pycnia and aecial "cluster cup" with orange-yellow aeciospores proliferating from the surface of infected tissue.