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Calling an animal a ‘pest’ can sometimes cause more harm to people than the animal itself.
Too much fertilizer disrupts the hidden world of soil-dwelling microbes that were sustaining healthy crops long before synthetic fertilizer was invented.
In parts of Western Australia and Southern Australia, mouse numbers are reaching plague proportions.
As a dried plant product, illegal tobacco is a biosecurity risk in its own right. With tonnes of it arriving undetected, these tiny pests may be hitchhiking in too.
Two-dozen Asian yellow-legged hornet nests and queens have now been found on Auckland’s North Shore. Speed and more resources will be crucial.
Scientists have learned how to turn off moths’ sex signals – this could help farmers fight pests without pesticides.
Miller moths migrate through the state every summer and are sometimes considered to be a pest.
Fruit flies wreak havoc on crops in Hawaii, but a type of parasitoid wasp armed with a biological weapon has helped keep the pests at bay.
Using DNA sequencing, the origins of one of the world’s most common insects, the German cockroach, have been traced back to Asia. Learning more about this urban pest can help us fight it effectively.
It’s a horror story unfolding in the west that could sweep across the country. Beware the shot-hole borer, an exotic pest that threatens our tree crops, plantations, urban forests and wild places.
The trouble is most countries don’t make bed bug infestation data available to researchers.
Australia’s biosecurity system is on high alert for alien invaders. Here’s a hit list of eight baddies we believe pose the greatest threat to Australia’s biodiversity.
Alien invaders are penetrating the borders of every country in the world. Now the full extent of the problems and potential solutions have been exposed, in a new United Nations report.
Spiders liquefy their prey in order to consume it, and this makes it challenging to determine what spiders eat. A new approach that uses DNA barcoding is helping researchers figure out spider diets.
Over hundreds of million years of evolution, ants have come up with some pretty smart solutions to problems of agriculture, navigation and architecture. People could learn a thing or two.
Why you shouldn’t get in a flap over reports that swarms of wasps are descending on Britain.
Indonesia’s foot-and-mouth outbreak shouldn’t come as a surprise. It’s been decades in the making – just the latest consequence of biosecurity shortcomings in the region.
Cowpea is an important crop in Ghana. What will a genetically modified version mean for the country’s farmers?
Bed bugs are pretty much universally reviled. But a public health entomologist explains how – while potentially traumatizing to deal with – they aren’t likely to make you sick.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Associate Professor in Wildlife Conservation, Edith Cowan University
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Former Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Professor of Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University
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Associate Professor of Applied Entomology, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, Ecology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Science Director, Biosecurity Flagship, CSIRO
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Adjunct Fellow in Ecology, Adelaide University
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Professor of Aquatic Biosciences, Nord University
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Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Professor of Ecology and Entomology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Microbial Ecology, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Research fellow, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University; Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)