APPLIED BIOLOGY CENTER NAVFAC Atlantic Pest Management Challenges for NAVFAC

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APPLIED BIOLOGY CENTERNAVFAC AtlanticPest
Management Challenges for NAVFAC

• Mrs. Sherrie Bartku
• Applied Biology Section Head
• Entomologist, B.C.E.

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NAVFAC APPLIED BIOLOGY CENTER

• A uniquely qualified network providing
  high-quality, cost effective, responsive
  solutions to a wide variety of biological
  challenges to Navy/Marine Corps operations,
  warfighters, quality of life, property, material
  and the environment.

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Structure

• NAVFAC Applied Biology Center provides
  comprehensive shore-side pest management support
  to Navy and Marine Corps installations around the
  world
• Headquartered at LANT due to BRAC decisions
• 11 entomologists/biologists provide required pest
  management support
• LANT entomologists
• 7 at LANT (Program Manager temp doing NEPA for
  Guam)
• 1 forward deployed to FEC SW
• PAC entomologists
• 2 at PAC
• 1 forward deployed to FEC FE

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NAVFAC Applied Biology Center

• NAVFAC Atlantic
• Mr. Dan Cecchini - Applied Biology Program
  Manager (temp assigned to Guam Nepa, Karen Wilson
  acting)
• Ms. Sharon Bartku Applied Biology Section Head
• Mr. Kirk Williams
• Mr. Jack Markham
• Dr. Steve Holmes
• Ms. Sabra Scheffel
• Dr. Denise Thomas
• Mr. Michael Medina (NAVFAC SW)
• NAVFAC Pacific
• Mr. Stephan Lee
• Mr. Cory Campora
• NAVFAC Far East Mr. Akira Masui (Japan only)

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Products and Services

• Regulatory oversight of installation pest
  management programs
• Ensure proper handling, storage and usage of
  pesticides, DoD or state certified pesticide
  applicators, reporting
• On-site technical review/follow-up report
• Minimum once every 3 years
• Approve all pesticides and pest control contracts
• Training
• Give recertification course for all Navy/USMC
  pesticide applicators
• Assist with initial DOD certified pesticide
  applicator training
• Teach initial Pest Control PAR/QAE/Pest
  Management Coordinator course
• Prepare, on a cost reimbursable basis, required
  installation-specific integrated pest management
  plans
• Collect/Collate pesticide data
• Report annual metrics to OSD
• Measures of Merit
• Phone/email consults as needed
• On-site consults (reimbursable)
• Write technical specs (reimbursable)

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Drivers for Program

• FIFRA Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
  Rodenticide Act
• Addresses labeling and handling of pesticides
• Training
• DoDINST 4150.07 DoD Pest Management Programs
• Requires services to establish and maintain pest
  management programs
• Establishes Armed Forces Pest Management Board
  (AFPMB)
• OPNAVINST 6250.4 (series) Pest Management
  Programs
• Implements Navy pest management program
• OPNAVINST 5090.1C Chap. 17 Pesticide Compliance
  Ashore
• MCO 5090.2 Chap. 15 Pesticide Pollution
  Prevention

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How is the Navy Unique?

• Operationally ships and planes
• Engineering side of the house (NAVFAC ABC) does
  recertification traing instead of Schoolhouse
• Have traveling schoolhouse
• Give classes in Jacksonville, Va. Beach, Okinawa
  (initial cert), Italy, Bahrain, Guam
• Assist with Phase II portion of initial cert
• Also put on Initial Pest Control Quality
  Assurance Evaluator/Performance Assessment
  Representative and Integrated Pest Management
  Coordinator training
• Normally one each year in Pac, Lant and SW areas
• BUMED handles shipboard pest control

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How is the Navy Unique?

• Location Most bases are close to large bodies
  of water (makes it easier on the ships!)
• Leads to pest problems including
• Mosquitoes especially in spoil areas
• Invasive weeds
• Invasive species arriving by ship
• Rodents

Phragmites
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How is the Navy Unique?

• Large concentration of bases in warmer climates
• Ant problems
• Fireants Followed me from SC to VA!
• Caribbean crazy ants in Jacksonville, FL area
• Argentine ants
• Odorous house ant

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Caribbean Crazy ants at Fuel Depot, Jacksonville,
FL
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How is the Navy Unique?

• Fireants now in Hampton Roads, Va
• Naval Station Norfolk, Va
• Under Quarantine, city was treating but
  overwhelmed so base is treating their areas
  (demo of earthstar tm unit- another tool)

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How is the Navy Unique?

• Termites
• Formosan New Orleans is the formosan capital
  of the us
• NAS and NSA New Orleans
• Drywood termites Key west
• Eastern subs eastern coastal and gulf areas

Formosan termites USDA

• Drywood termites
• termitesgonewild.com

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BASH

• Alligator strikes in fl
• Cow strikes in ms
• Sea gulls, geese, migratory birds

Bird droppings in hangers
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Recent Issues NAVFAC Atlantic

• Mosquito reduction at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti
• Recommendations significantly reduced breeding
  locations
• Improved safety/quality of life for deployed
  warfighter
• Uniform treatment assistance for the deploying
  warfighter
• Bedbug assistance for Marine Barracks in DC

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Disease Vectors Djibouti Dump
Bedbugs In Jax
Rabbits in Rota
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Unique projects

• NAVFAC Southwest
• Invasive species at Naval Radio Station (T) Jim
  Creek, WA
• Ants in least tern nesting areas in San Diego, CA

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The mission of Jim Creek is to operate a very low
frequency (VLF) antenna that is used to
communicate with submerged submarines in the
eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Antenna Field Brush Management

• Must Maintain brush height to less than 6 feet
  primarily scotch broom
• Aerial spray method of choice
• Target woody and broadleaf plants, Scotch broom
• Herbicide Garlon 3A- Triclopyr (triethylamine
  salt

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2009 Ant Control Program at California Least Tern
and Western Snowy Plover Nesting Sites, Naval
Base Coronado, California

• 3 sites on NB Coronado used by endangered
  California Least Terns (CLT) for nesting and
  breeding designated for ant surveillance and
  control
• Birds vulnerable to attack by ants ants may prey
  upon unhatched eggs and newly hatched chicks, or
  ant invasion of nests may harass adults and cause
  nest abandonment
• Long term goal develop an effective,
  environmentally sound ant management strategy
• 2009 focus on managing Argentine ants, but other
  ant sp. monitored to assess risk

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2009 Ant Control Program at California Least Tern
and Western Snowy Plover Nesting Sites, Naval
Base Coronado, California
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NAVFAC PAC - Surveys for Hawaiian picture-wing
flies at NAVMAG Lualualei and the Kokee Sites
Native, non-endangered Hawaiian picture-wing
fly, Drosophila flexipes
Baited sponge used to attract the flies
Multi-liure trap commonly used for tephritid
fruit fly trapping
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NAVFAC PAC - Surveys for Hawaiian picture-wing
flies at NAVMAG Lualualei and the Kokee Sites

• The Hawaiian picture-wing flies are species of
  Drosophila that have evolved with native plants
  in Hawaii.
• feed on sap from native trees and breed in
  decaying native plant material.
• name comes from the patterns on their wing.
• Invasive species and loss of habitat have
  affected their populations, but not all of these
  flies are endangered.
• Due to the proximity of endangered fly designated
  critical habitat to Navy installations, the Navy
  is obligated to conduct surveys for the
  endangered flies.
• The survey in December 2009 at NAVMAG Lualualei
  captured three species of Hawaiian picture-wing
  flies, D. flexipes, D crucigea, and D. gradata,
  but none were endangered species.

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Various Applied Biology Projects NAVFAC Pacific
and NAVFAC Far East

• Natural Resources Insect Surveys
• Commonwealth Northern Mariana Islands Survey for
  Mariana eight-spot butterfly
• nymphalid
• Endangered species candidate
• Host plant surveys
• Survey for predators including paper wasps
• Surveys on island of Tinnea
• INRMPs
• Joint-basing

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paper wasp nest
Mariana eight-spot butterfly - USFWS candidate
species in Guam
Surveying for the host plant of the butterfly in
Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands
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Programmatic Challenges

• Consistent source of reimbursable funding for IPM
  Plans
• No law that says IPM Plan required low priority
• Inconsistent reporting of pesticide use
• PPV
• Contractors now performing significant of work
• NEXCOM
• Displays
• MWR
• Golf courses
• Relatively small staff responsible for pesticide
  compliance for all Navy/Marine Corps shore
  facilities around the world
• Keeping up with technical reviews, calls and
  plans is a challenge

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NAVFAC PEST MANAGEMENT
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