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PaDIS

The Pest and Disease Information Service (PaDIS) provides advisory and identification services on animal and plant pests, weeds and diseases that impact Western Australia's agriculture and food industries. This service plays an important frontline role for the detection and reporting of unfamiliar and potentially damaging pests, weeds and diseases of agricultural and quarantine concern.

Articles

  • Beekeeper inspecting frame of developing bees

    Reporting bee pests and surveillance

    8 March 2023

    Beekeepers in Western Australia are encouraged to regularly check their hives for pests and diseases and report their findings.

  • 1 Mango shoot looper - larvae on damaged leaf

    Mango shoot looper: biosecurity alert

    14 April 2022

    Mango shoot looper is an invasive pest of mango and lychee (or litchi) trees. Rambutan, longan, cashew and pistachio trees can also be affected by this plant pest.

  • Male fall armyworm moth

    Fall armyworm in Western Australia

    13 February 2020

    The fall armyworm moth (Spodoptera frugiperda) is a plant pest that can damage a wide variety of crops.

  • Null

    Onion smut: declared pest

    20 December 2019

    Onion smut (Urocystis cepulae) is a disease of onions. This disease is absent from Western Australia.

  • Black argentine ants on a red background seen under a microscope

    Argentine ants

    4 December 2013

    Argentine ants, Linepithema humile, are a major cosmopolitan pest ant species, primarily of the suburbs, which often enter houses in search of food and moisture.

  • banner Stop citrus gall wasp

    Citrus gall wasp control

    4 September 2017

    Citrus gall wasp is a pest that affects all citrus species. Citrus tree owners are encouraged to implement control measures on their property to reduce the threat to the citrus industry in Western

  • Tree with close up of green, black and fruit which is half green and half black.

    Olive tree pests and diseases

    7 April 2014

    Keeping olive trees well-fed and adequately watered is the best initial defence against pests and diseases, since vigorous trees are better able to withstand attack and less likely to suffer long-t

  • millipede on a wall

    Portuguese millipedes

    10 December 2013

    Portuguese millipedes (Ommatoiulus moreleti) belong to a group of animals called Myriapoda (meaning many-legged), which also includes several native Australian millipedes and centipedes.

  • Meat ant (Iridomyrmex purpureus)

    Australian meat ants

    13 April 2017

    Australian meat ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus gp) are a native ant species.

  • codling moth affected apples and moth

    Codling moth: declared pest

    11 April 2014

    Codling moth (Cydia pomonella) is a serious pest of apples and other pome fruit and has the potential to cause severe crop losses.

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