Pest Control

After introducing the birds last growing season as a trial, Castle Rock Estate is using them again this year with hopes to grow the flock.

First detected in Australia in the 1930s, European earwigs can affect citrus, cherries and canola – and farmers are being warned to check carefully and early for signs of infestation.

Sheep graziers say the broken section is allowing feral animals to move freely between NSW and SA and threatening their industry, after long delays to repairs.

Early warm weather has triggered a bumper season for Australia's 30,000 fly species. So who are these curious insects, and how should we think about their presence in our lives?

There is a queue to access a WA council's cat traps as residents try to control the pests. It comes as a new strategy to tackle the issue is welcomed in the regions.

Concerns have been raised around the use of an insecticide to control the varroa mite outbreak in New South Wales and its impact on the native bee population.

With the right winds, a fire ant queen can travel up to 5 kilometres in a single flight and land with enough sperm for "a lifetime of egg-laying".

The NSW government says it's taking immediate action to prevent fire ants entering the state after the destructive pest was found 5 kilometres from the border.

There are calls for compensation for farmers impacted by the number of beehives destroyed in the effort to stop the parasitic varroa mite. Without enough bees to pollinate produce, there are reports of crop losses and, conversely, huge fruit and veggies.

It's nine years since cats, rats, and rabbits were officially declared eradicated from sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, but scientists fear a new threat is challenging its fragile ecosystem.

A combination of cooler weather, warm ceilings, and easy pickings for food makes parts of South East Queensland a perfect place for rats to move in.

The hippos have been causing havoc around Colombia ever since the cocaine baron died in 1993.

There's an exciting fishing movement catching on in Australia with pest-busting anglers deliberately targeting introduced species such as Mozambique tilapia and European carp.

Flooding in NSW washes away farm infrastructure, drowns crops, and kills livestock, but it may also be keeping a mouse plague at bay.

Fears around blackwater are yet to be realised in South Australia's flooded communities, but experts say the event isn't all doom and gloom.

The long-awaited report says there are more steps that must be taken before a decision on whether to release carp herpes into Australian waterways is made.

Guava root-knot nematode has been detected for the first time in Australia — leaving farmers with questions about what to do next. 

A decision to ban the shooting of feral animals came into effect last month. But there is confusion around the ban's timing and why it was instituted in the first place.

A retired couple spot a "huge" black cat casually strolling past the front of their property in WA's Mid West.

The plan and its associated documents have not been made public yet, but the Shadow Agriculture Minister says it is time for the plan to be released.

Brisbane City Council has increased its classification of the yellow crazy ant threat from low to high risk in an amendment to the city's biosecurity plan.

An island in the Great Barrier Reef was facing an ecological crisis as mice took over. But plummeting seabird numbers have levelled out after authorities took action.

NSW Agriculture Minister Dugald Saunders says as many queens as possible will be examined and may be evacuated from the site following the expansion of an eradication zone.

Beekeepers on the NSW Mid North Coast say they are angry at the lack of communication from authorities after varroa mite is found in a new zone.

Scientists are hoping to develop a world-first pesticide that would be safe for honey bees while destroying the deadly varroa mite.