The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Plant Disease and Insect Clinic Records contain materials on plant samples sent to the clinic, clinic lab records, publications, bibliographies, archived web content, and slides. Materials range in date from the 1930s to 1999.
The Plant Disease and Insect Clinic at NC State University provides plant disease diagnostic and insect identification services to help the people of North Carolina grow healthy plants and crops. Homeowners, gardeners, landscape architects, and farmers may submit samples to the clinic for analysis. Specialists will then recommend ways to treat or prevent the problem.
The Plant Disease and Insect Clinic was established as the Plant Disease Clinic in the Department of Plant Pathology at NC State in 1951. With the addition of entomologists from the Department of Entomology in 1970, it became the Plant Disease and Insect Clinic. The Plant Disease and Insect Clinic is a member of the National Plant Diagnostic Network and the Southern Plant Diagnostic Network.
The Plant Disease and Insect Clinic at NC State University provides plant disease diagnostic and insect identification services to help the people of North Carolina grow healthy plants and crops. Homeowners, gardeners, landscape architects, and farmers may submit samples to the clinic for analysis. Specialists will then recommend ways to treat or prevent the problem.
The Plant Disease and Insect Clinic was established as the Plant Disease Clinic in the Department of Plant Pathology at NC State in 1951. With the addition of entomologists from the Department of Entomology in 1970, it became the Plant Disease and Insect Clinic. The Plant Disease and Insect Clinic is a member of the National Plant Diagnostic Network and the Southern Plant Diagnostic Network.
The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Plant Disease and Insect Clinic Records contain materials on plant samples sent to the clinic, clinic lab records, publications, bibliographies, archived web content, and slides. Materials range in date from the 1930s to 1999.
This collection has not received full archival processing. Materials are arranged into 6 series: Samples, Clinic Lab Records, Bibliographies, Publications, Photographs and Slides, Web Content.
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[Identification of item], North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Plant Disease and Insect Clinic Records, UA 102.041, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Transferred from the North Carolina Extension Service, Plant Disease and Insect Clinic (Accession 2012.0100). Web content harvested using the Internet Archive's Archive-It services.
Processed by Cathy Dorin-Black and Kristine Huynh, 2012 May; Finding aid written by Cathy Dorin-Black, 2012 May; Finding aid updated by Gevorg Vardanyan, 2023 June; Finding aid updated by Kate Phillips, 2025 December
The collection is organized into five principal series:
This series contains index cards describing problems submitted by people across the state describing diseases or pests that have afflicted their plants. The cards were filed by plant type until 1988, then were filed by sample number.
This subseries contains index cards describing problems submitted by people across the state describing diseases or pests that have afflicted their plants.
This subseries is organized chronologically, then by plant type. The plant types typically fall into these categories: Small Grains, Forage Crops, Field Crops, Trees, Small Fruits, Vegetables, Ornamentals, Ground Covers, and Tobacco. There is some variation in these categories over time.
This subseries contains index cards describing problems submitted by people across the state describing diseases or pests that have afflicted their plants.. They are organized chronologically then by sample number.
This series contains Clinic Lab Records. Materials range in date from 1986 to 1990.
This series contains bibliographies about plant diseases and insect pests.
This series contains publications of interest to the Plant Disease and Insect Clinic.
This series contains primarily slides of plant specimens. They are organized chronologically and range in date from 1965 to 1989.
This series is comprised of web sites of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service’s Plant Disease and Insect Clinic, captured by the NC State University Libraries since July 2016 using the Internet Archive’s Archive-It web archiving service, with prior captures by the Internet Archive dating back to July 2011, which may be less complete and was performed at undetermined intervals.
This was formerly the official website of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service’s Plant Disease and Insect Clinic. The NC State University Libraries scheduled this website to be captured quarterly beginning in May 2016. Also included here are prior captures by the Internet Archive dating back to July 2011. Since August 2016, this URL has redirected to https://projects.ncsu.edu/cals/plantpath/extension/clinic/services.html, which is also represented in this collection guide.
Online access is provided through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
This is the official website of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service’s Plant Disease and Insect Clinic. The Internet Archive has captured this website dating back to August 2016. The site begin redirecting to https://pdic.ces.ncsu.edu/ in October 2020, and is now captured and described using that URL.
Online access is provided through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
This is the official website for the Plant Disease and Insect Clinic at the NC State Cooperative Extension. The NC State University Libraries has captured this site quarterly since 2025 December. The site was previously captured at the URL https://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantpath/extension/clinic/services.html and began redirecting in October 2020. Also included are prior captures by the Internet Archive, beginning in 2001, which may be less complete and captured at undetermined intervals.
Online access is provided through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
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[Identification of item], North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Plant Disease and Insect Clinic Records, UA 102.041, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The NC State University Libraries generally claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. Libraries staff are unable to advise on copyright and other legal matters; the user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Helpful resources for assessing copyright include Cornell Libraries' "Copyright Services: Copyright Term and the Public Domain" and copyright.gov. This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information about identifiable living individuals, which may be protected under federal or state laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that there may be legal ramifications for disclosing this information.
The University Archives operates in accordance with the State Public Records Act, with unrestricted access to records not covered by state and federal statutes and regulations.