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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

  • 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

  • Boat on a river choked by weed.

    Aquatic weeds

    8 April 2014

    Some aquatic plants used in ponds and aquariums are highly invasive and have become serious weeds in natural waterways.

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