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Tag: pest-management

  • Fat locusts frighten farmers

    Created Wed, 26th of Nov 2008

    Recent rain in Northern Victoria has created more food for locusts, and they're getting fatter. Locust incident controller Bruce Taberner says it's a concern "Of all the females that have been ... more

  • Midges a problem at Palmerston: report

    Created Tue, 25th of Nov 2008

    Northern Territory entomologists say sporting facilities planned for Palmerston should be moved because of seasonally high numbers of biting midges at the proposed site. The Medical Entomology ... more

  • Wormy solution to fish scum

    Created Mon, 24th of Nov 2008

    A new species of marine worm discovered in the Northern Territory is creating huge savings for a Darwin barramundi grower and has the potential to do the same for many fish farmers around ... more

  • Weather forecasters detect termite swarms

    Created Mon, 24th of Nov 2008

    It is not just rain clouds filling the sky this storm season, swarms of termites have started their annual flight. Weather forecasters tracking south-east Queensland's wild storm fronts have ... more

  • Last chance call for blackberry funding

    Created Mon, 24th of Nov 2008

    The CSIRO is making a final call to land holders to jump on board its blackberry biological control program before the funding program ends this month. Ruth Aveyard from CSIRO Entomology in ... more

  • From floods and storms to termite plague

    Created Mon, 24th of Nov 2008

    Queensland Bureau of Meteorology forecasters tracking the wild storms have detected huge swarms of termites in the state's south west. The Department of Primary Industries says it's the time of ... more

  • Wild weather wreaks havoc in central west

    Created Mon, 24th of Nov 2008

    Snow, hail and strong winds toppled trees and powerlines as a freak weather event lashed the New South Wales central west over the weekend. Several hail storms fell in the Orange and Nashdale ... more

  • Cane toad fence to be built in Top End to stop further invasion

    Created Fri, 21st of Nov 2008

    An anti-cane toad group in the Northern Territory is working to stop the spread of the cane toad, by building a toad-proof fence. Cane Toads are the scourge of northern Australia, and are on the ... more

  • DPI up-beat about Thorpdale potato trade

    Created Fri, 21st of Nov 2008

    The Department of Primary Industries (DPI) is confident Thorpdale potatoes will be sold interstate before Christmas. There has been a ban on interstate trading since the detection of the ... more

  • Nationals want inquiry over banana import risk assessment

    Created Fri, 21st of Nov 2008

    A National Party Senator is calling for an inquiry into Biosecurity Australia's decision to recommend the importation of Cavendish bananas from the Philippines. It comes as a report from analyst ... more

  • Crop pests boom amid changing climate and farming practices

    Created Fri, 21st of Nov 2008

    Farming practices, the climate and chemicals have changed crop pests over the last 20 years. Scientists compared Victorian and Western Australian farm records with today's and found the number of ... more

  • Calls for Senate Inquiry into banana imports assessment

    Created Thu, 20th of Nov 2008

    The Shadow Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs Luke Hartsuyker supports the move for a Senate Inquiry into the recent Import Risk Assessment on bananas. The Nationals Member for ... more

  • Proserpine cane smut becomes more widespread: BSES

    Created Wed, 19th of Nov 2008

    The sugar research group the BSES says it is starting to see evidence of widespread smut fungal infections in canefields around Proserpine in north Queensland. A survey of farms during this year's ... more

  • Public urged to report pest lorikeet sightings

    Created Wed, 19th of Nov 2008

    The Western Australia Department of Agriculture and Food is urging people to report any regional sightings of rainbow lorikeets. The introduced birds are a declared species outside of the Perth ... more

  • Icon_camera Fears over chemical spraying

    Created Tue, 18th of Nov 2008

    A couple in Tasmania's north-east fear they will lose customers from their accommodation business after their property was sprayed with insecticide this morning. Howard and Michelle Carpenter say ... more


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