April 14, 2020 - 11:26am -- lyon.194@osu.edu

Beginning Wednesday, April 15, the OSU C. Wayne Ellett Plant & Pest Diagnostic Clinic, located in Reynoldsburg, will reopen on a part-time basis.  The Clinic will be accepting plant samples for disease diagnosis via package deliver only (USPS, UPS, etc.). No face-to-face drop off of samples can be accepted at this time.

The mailing address is: C. Wayne Ellett Plant & Pest Diagnostic clinic, 8995 E. Main Street, Building 23, Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068-3399. 

Insect samples received will be held for identification until the OSU Columbus campus is reopened. Digital images of samples for diagnosis are currently being accepted and can be e-mailed to: ppdc@osu.edu

In addition, both the OSU Vegetable Pathology and the Fruit Pathology Laboratories are open on a limited basis as of Monday, April 13, and accepting samples for diagnostics from commercial vegetable and fruit growers.  For complete information before sending samples to either Pathology Laboratory, see: 

https://u.osu.edu/vegetablepathologylab/diagnostic-submission/

https://u.osu.edu/fruitpathology/diagnostics/