PIRSA newsletters

PestFacts 16 November 2023

In this issue: summer management of snails, monitoring in spring and during harvest to help you manage pests next season, and the release of the new IPM Checklist.

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PestFacts 25 October 2023

In this issue: Look out for beneficials in your crops, monitoring slugs in spring for future management, black Portuguese millipede movement, and keep an eye out for faba bean aphid.

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PestFacts 6 October 2023

In this issue: Cotton tipworm moth has been spotted feeding inside wheat grain at Booleroo Centre.

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PestFacts 21 September 2023

In this issue: parasitic wasps and entomopathogenic fungi on aphids, cabbage white butterfly activity, native budworm update, armyworm activity, and Russian wheat aphid in cereals.

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PestFacts 4 September

In this issue: pea weevil spraying, Etiella flight predictions, using the Russian wheat aphid threshold calculator and much more.

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PestFacts 14 August 2023

In this issue: how liming can affect snails, recent reports of brown pasture looper and cowpea aphid, how you can help current research, and ways the new beneficials toxicity table can help inform decisions on farm.

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PestFacts 28 July 2023

In this issue: slug activity across the state.

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Crop Watch 26 July 2023

In this issue: first wheat stripe rust reports of the season.

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Crop Watch 14 July 2023

In this issue: monitor lentils for ascochyta blight, early start for cereal stubble borne diseases, and send us your pulse, canola and cereal crop disease samples.

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PestFacts 4 July 2023

In this issue: how to tell beneficial native millipedes, slug and snail activity, and pest observations throughout the regions.

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PestFacts 9 May 2023

In this issue: slater management advice, an overview of pest sightings, new snail management information, tips for monitoring emerging crops, and PestFacts' free identification service.

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PestFacts 5 May 2023

In this issue we discuss tips for monitoring and baiting black field crickets and slugs, results from the SAGIT-funded 'Caught red-handed' project, how to identify stubble pests, and how you can help our biosecurity efforts.

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Crop Watch 28 April 2023

Early Blackspot Manager forecasts suggest the risk of blackspot disease in seedling field pea crops is highly variable across South Australia.

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PestFacts 6 April 2023

In this issue we discuss snail baiting, updates on fall armyworm movement and trapping, recent sightings of several bugs of concern, and how you can manage green bridge pre-season.

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