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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

  • Grain harvester

    Importing used machinery

    28 October 2013

    All used agricultural, mining and earth-moving machinery or equipment arriving in Western Australia from other states and territories is inspected by the Department of Primary Industries and Region

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Jujube fruit with brown spot

    Brown spot of jujube

    21 November 2017

    Brown spot is a fungal disease caused by Nothophoma quercina. It affects jujubes in Western Australia and has been reported in olives, pistachios and Chinese quince in other countries.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • PestFax Reporter splash screen

    PestFax Reporter

    27 March 2015

    The PestFax Reporter app lets you quickly and easily report observations, and request diagnoses, of pests and diseases in your crop and pasture paddocks to the PestFacts WA service.

  • Plant with purple stems and dark green leaves covered with a bright yellow powder-like fungus.

    Myrtle rust: Biosecurity alert

    8 April 2014

    Myrtle rust is a serious disease that infects and kills many plants belonging to the Myrtaceae family including eucalypts, bottlebrushes, paperbarks and peppermint trees.

  • An female adult EHB beetle laying eggs in a pine wood crack.

    About European house borer

    26 November 2013

    A descriptive page about European house borer and its characteristics.

  • Adult Sycamore lace bugs, nymphs and honeydew on the back of a plane leaf

    Sycamore lace bug

    8 May 2017

    The Department of Agriculture and Food received a report via the MyPestGuide Reporter app in April 2017 of an insect which has been identified as Sycamore lace bug Corythucha ciliata. This

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