Emergency Insect Management Grant
Forecasted
Emergency Insect Management Grant supports Wyoming public agencies managing insect outbreaks and disease vectors to protect people, animals, agriculture, and natural resources.
Funder: Wyoming Department of Agriculture
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to 50% of total program costs; up to 75% for outbreak insect control in special circumstances
Summary: Supplemental funding for Wyoming public agencies managing emergency insect outbreaks and disease vectors affecting people, animals, agriculture, and natural resources.
Key Information: Applicants must be Wyoming state agencies or political subdivisions.
Description
The Wyoming Department of Agriculture’s Emergency Insect Management Grant provides supplemental support for managing emergency outbreaks of insect pests and insects that transmit disease. The program protects human health and safety, animal health—including livestock and wildlife—agriculture, and natural resources. The Wyoming Emergency Insect Management Committee oversees funding allocations under the Emergency Insect Management Program Act, enacted in 2003 (W.S. 11-5-401 through 11-5-405).
Supported concerns include disease vectors such as mosquitoes, biting flies, and other blood-feeding arthropods that harbor or transmit harmful pathogens. Insect pest concerns include grasshoppers, Mormon crickets, other cyclic or outbreak species, and incipient populations of invasive insects such as fire ants and Africanized honeybees.
