Many of you may know of Terry Spivey from his wildlife images he took while working for the Forest Service. He has now retired and started "Terry Spivey Photography". He was kind enough to send os some of his latest digital work. You can take a look at the new material on his new author page.
We've just received a great set of images showing Agrilus planipennis laying eggs! These images were taken by Marianne Prue from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry. You can view them at her author page.
We've just added an excellent set of images from the book "Insects and their Natural Enemies Associated with Vegetables and Soybean in Southeast Asia" by B.M. Shepard, G.R. Carner, A.T. Barrion, P.A.C. Ooi and H.van den Berg. You can see these images at their author page.
New images from the National Park Service at Everglades National Park have been added to the system. Images include American alligators and invasive Burmese pythons. I have organized a collection of some of the best pictures here. If you would like to see all of the pictures browse by subject or photographer. WARNING: Some of the pictures are graphic!
I recently traveled to Colorado State to train Howard Schwartz, Mark McMillan, and Janet Hardin on how images are entered into the Bugwood Image Database System. They will be heading us the CSU node of the system, meaning they have all of the tool to upload images and enter information that we have at our main office in Tifton, GA.
Colorado State was kind enough to let me present on the transition of CSU AgImages into BugwoodIDS. They also recorded the presentation and have posted it on the web. This presentation gives a good idea of how our system works and what will be happening with this cooperative effort between UGA and CSU. To view the presentation, go to: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p70353759/
Two corrections on the presentation: 1) my e-mail address is laforest@uga.edu and 2) the address for the Bugwood Blog is www.bugwood.org/blog.
We just received a large set of images from Ohio State University. These images cover a wide variety of weed species found in the mid-west. There are over 3000 pictures in this collection, while not all of these images are currently available, they will be in the weeks to come. These images are available at The Ohio State Weed Lab archive.
Jan Samanek has sent us another great set of images. Many of the species he photographed are considered invasive species both in the United Stated and Czechia. You can view the latest images at this link.
We have just received a fine set of images from Frank Peairs at Colorado State University. These images cover a wide range of insects found in corn, rice, millet, wheat, and other grains. These images are available at the author page of Frank Peairs
We try very hard to make sure that the photographer and the organization they work for receive credit whenever an image is used. Although all of our image detail pages have the citation including the photographers name and organization, there has been some confusion as to the origin of the images based on the tag we apply to the lower right-hand corner of each image...it starts with the prefix 'UGA'
The 'UGA' was meant to denote that the image came from an image archive run by UGA…not that UGA was the source of the image. There were a few reasons that we started tagging images.
As of today, we have stopped using 'UGA' on our image tags. This will mainly apply to new images in the system. We are still tagging the images with a 7-digit number and searching by this number in our system or even on web searches like Google or Yahoo will return that particular image. Hopefully, the "black and white tag in the lower right" will act as a signal to most people that the image and it's information can be found in the Bugwood Image Database.
We have begun to release images from the Plant Diagnostic Lab at the University of Georgia. These images were scanned from a slide archive focusing on Plant Pathology. Holly Thornton and Jan Fowler have been very helpful in double checking the images as we have entered them into the system. There are 545 currently available at this link. More will be added as we get them entered into the system
