Vegetation on the two lake islands at Perth's historic Hyde Park will be cleared over six weeks, after it was found to be ...

The small size and light to dark brown colour of the polyphagous shot hole borer makes it difficult to detect. Females are 1.8-2.5 mm long while males are only 1.5-1.67 mm long. Disclaimer ...

The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) and Forest Industries Federation of Western Australia (FIFWA) are calling on the Western Australian ...

The state government is being urged to drop non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) being placed on the location of shot-hole-borer ...

Just four months into a new chemical trial, the City of Canning believes it has found a way to combat the polyphagous shot-hole borer. In the trial, 131 infested trees were injected with a small ...

Cape Town’s once-majestic urban forests are under attack from a tiny yet deadly invader – the polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB). Barker explains that the threat lies in the fusarium fungus ...

Industry leaders are calling for calm after a political stoush between members of the Labor and Liberal parties raised claims of spreading misinformation about an invasive beetle species.

Plastic wrapping is being put forward as a possible solution to kill the invasive pest that is wreaking havoc on Perth's tree canopy, while keeping an infested tree alive. The polyphagous shot ...

A Perth council claims it's had "incredibly encouraging" results from an initial trial to stop shot-hole borer beetles from destroying trees. The City of Canning has been injecting infected trees ...