Acknowledgements
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Invasive Mite Identification: Tools for Quarantine and Plant Protection was developed and published by the Center for Plant Health Science and Technology (CPHST) through a cooperative agreement with Colorado State University. CPHST is the scientific support organization for the Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) division of the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and is under the direction of Gordon Gordh. CPHST National Science Program Leader Daniel Fieselmann and Identification Technology Program Coordinator Terrence Walters oversaw development of this resource.
David Evans Walter is the author of Invasive Mite Identification: Tools for Quarantine and Plant Protection
Dr. Heather C. Proctor (http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/faculty/heather_proctor) created original drafts of some of the fact sheet pages in the Major Mite Taxa tool.
Julia Scher (USDA-APHIS-PPQ-CPHST) converted the nine Lucid keys to version 3 from version 2, and by creating home pages, strategic links, several introductory pages, and some format consistency throughout, brought all the tools and glossary together into one resource on invasive mites.
George Venable (PXLPWR Multimedia Studio) was a consultant on html page design. In particular, George contributed his expertise and ideas to the home page design for the nine tools and home page in this resource.
The list of ranked Tetranychoidea mites appears courtesy of PPQ-PERAL (Plant Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Laboratory), May 2006.
Images
Most of the images used in these keys have been commissioned or created by David Evans Walter. A few of the line drawings of insects have been modified from the 'Agriculture Handbook No. 655, Insect and Mite Pests in Food An Illustrated Key Volume 1 and Volume 2'. The line drawing of a cladoceran is modified from Livingstone at BIODIDAC (http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/). Matthew Boeckner (tardigrades) and Dr Heather C. Proctor (mites, spiders, insects) (http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/faculty/heather_proctor) contributed some of the photographs.