Biosecurity

Biosecurity is fundamental for safeguarding our valuable agricultural resources against the threat and impacts of pests, weeds and diseases (pests).

Biosecurity is the management of the risk of animal and plant pests and diseases entering, emerging, establishing or spreading in Western Australia, to protect our economy, environment and the community.

To protect Western Australian agricultural industries from pests the Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia:

  • Works with stakeholders to identify and manage biosecurity risks.
  • Develops legislation.
  • Establishes import controls.
  • Conducts inspections.
  • Provides quarantine services as required.

To find out more about what we do to protect agricultural production and export opportunities within the State please search our website.

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Articles

  • Polyphagous shot-hole borer (PSHB) tunnells into trunks, stems and branches.

    Polyphagous shot-hole borer

    10 September 2021

    Polyphagous shot-hole borer (PSHB) Euwallacea fornicatus is a beetle native to Southeast Asia. The beetle attacks a wide range of plants by tunnelling into trunks, stems and branches.

  • European Honey Bee alongside a Red Dwarf Honey Bee

    Red dwarf honey bee

    23 December 2021

    DPIRD is investigating the detection of the exotic pest red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea) discovered on the Burrup Peninsula near Karratha.

  • Polyphagous shot-hole borer

    Be on the lookout for the polyphagous shot-hole borer

    10 January 2024

    Be on the lookout for the polyphagous shot-hole borer

  • Dorsal view of a red over-wintering form of two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) on a gerbera leaf

    Spider mite pests of Western Australian plants

    9 October 2013

    Mites of the Tetranychidae family (commonly known as spider mites) include some important pests of economic concern to agriculture and forestry.

  • Biosecurity Blitz

    The Biosecurity Blitz is an annual event that runs from 16 October - 16 November.

  • Bull ant

    Ants: identification and control

    29 March 2017

    Early identification of important invasive and native problematic ants within Western Australia is critical to achieving successful control and preventing invasive ant species from gaining a footho

  • Live red imported fire ants crawling on a piece of wood.

    Red imported fire ant: declared pest in Western Australia

    10 October 2013

    Red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, is one of the most serious ant pests in the world and was found to be established in Brisbane, Queensland, in 2001.

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    Red imported fire ant

    27 November 2019

    Red imported fire ant (RIFA), Solenopsis invicta, is one of the most serious and invasive ant pests in the world, because of its harmful effects on people, agriculture, flora and fauna, in

  • Close up of white star potatoes on white background

    Potato seed certification

    20 November 2013

    DDLS Seed Testing and Certification is responsible for administering the industry seed potato production schemes in Western Australia.

  • TPP Quarantine Area

    5 May 2017

    A Quarantine Area Notice is in place that applies restrictions to the movement of host plants produced in the Quarantine Area to other areas in the state where tomato-potato psyllid is not known to

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