Boat owners are urged to ensure their hulls are regularly cleaned to minimise any further spread of an exotic marine pest known as white colonial sea squirt, which has been…
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Time to put the brakes on slugs and snails
Wimmera grain growers have been urged to monitor and manage slug and snail populations during a recent series of Agriculture Victoria-led presentations by crop pest specialist Dr Michael Nash. (more…)
Bolstering biosecurity against invasive pests
The Queensland Farmers’ Federation is calling on all Queenslanders to do their bit for biosecurity in the wake of recent detections of exotic pests which threaten the state’s agriculture sector.…
Exotic pest profile: spotted wing drosophila
The fly called spotted wing drosophila (SWD, Drosophila suzukii) is emerging as a global plant pest of significance. It attacks a range of soft skinned fruit and reduces crop yield…