August 28, 2024
ITP is pleased to announce the release of new content for Fruit and Seed Family ID. Developed in cooperation with Colorado State University, Fruit and Seed Family ID is an interactive tool that helps users identify unknown fruits and seeds to family. This tool should be useful for port identifiers and screeners [...]
June 18, 2024
ITP, in collaboration with Pollinator Partnership, is pleased to release The BeeMD at idtools.org. The Western honey bee, Apis mellifera, plays a vital role in agriculture in the U.S. as well as worldwide. Beekeepers throughout the world manage honey bee colonies to support pollination of [...]
April 8, 2024
ITP is pleased to announce the release of Fruits and Seeds of Legume Genera of the World. The Fabaceae or legume family is morphologically diverse and species-rich [...]
March 21, 2023
If you are a frequent user of our sites, you may have noticed some downtime recently. We have now restored, at minimum, the keys and fact sheets for every tool; many tools have been completely restored. However, many URLs have changed, so you may experience problems reaching some sites with old bookmarks. Please visit the ITP products page to find the latest links...
November 8, 2022
ITP is pleased to announce the release of a new tool, Fruit and Seed Family ID. Developed in cooperation with Colorado State University, Fruit and Seed Family ID is an interactive tool that helps users identify unknown fruits and seeds [...]
April 5, 2022
ITP is pleased to announce that Sawfly GenUS is now complete. Developed in cooperation with the Washington State Department of Agriculture, Sawfly GenUS is an interactive identification tool for all sawfly genera [...]
November 23, 2021
ITP is pleased to announce that new content has been released for Exotic Bee ID. Bees play a critical role in both agricultural and natural ecosystems, but some bee populations are in decline due to habitat loss, [...]
November 18, 2021
ITP and Canadian collaborators held two imaging webinars in 2021. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the International Seed Morphology Association, with help from ITP scientists, hosted "Imaging seeds [...]
July 26, 2021
In May of this year, USDA confirmed the presence of box tree moths in the U.S. The pests likely hitchhiked here via infested plant material imported from an Ontario, Canada nursery. APHIS has initiated an emergency [...]
June 21, 2021
ITP is pleased to announce the release of North American Hornet Screening Tool. Hornets in the genus Vespa play a critical role as predators in their native habitats, but in North America these species may have a [...]