PESTNET — a free service to help combat crop pests and diseases.
Making a submission via online app
Having registered and logged in, you can now send a Submission to PestNet by clicking on the add button (see white cross in a green circle in the screen shot image).
This will bring up a ‘New Submission‘ screen (see image), where details concerning a hypothetical example have been added.
Information has been entered about:
Your location
Post Type
Subject of the Post
Content of Post
Tags.
Photos of the insect and damage can be added by clicking on ‘Add media’, followed by further information about the request.
Note that images uploaded with a Submission or a Response are automatically optimised for viewing on the website.
Three appropriate tags regarding the pest, the crop, and the country, have been added to this submission. When you start to type a tag subject, relevant text appears allowing you to select a tag that already exists or you can add to the library of tags.