Report lifts lid on Australia's international bug superhighway
A new report has identified an international 'bug superhighway' capable of carrying a large variety of environmentally destructive overseas insects into Australia.
A new report has identified an international 'bug superhighway' capable of carrying a large variety of environmentally destructive overseas insects into Australia.
Plants & Animals
Apr 15, 2020
0
5
Invasive species have the potential to damage our economy, change our way of life and impact our wellbeing.
Plants & Animals
Feb 18, 2020
0
6
Strengthening biosecurity is widely considered the best strategy to reduce the devastating impact of disease outbreaks in the multi-billion-dollar global swine industry, but successfully doing so all comes down to human decision-making, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 25, 2019
0
0
Researchers are working with the Australian avocado industry to safeguard one of the nation's favourite fruits from the threat of existing and emerging disease.
Ecology
Jun 20, 2018
0
2
Ants in New Zealand might be annoying, but in the Pacific, invasive ant species are tiny terrors that are destroying food crops, blinding pets and livestock, and forcing people off their land.
Plants & Animals
Apr 11, 2017
0
3
A human disease pandemic, European honey bee colonies wiped out and an invasion of a devastating wheat disease are just three potential biosecurity threats facing Australia, according to a report released today.
Ecology
Nov 25, 2014
0
0
The image of Australian agriculture is that it is "clean and green" because biosecurity measures operate to keep a vast army of exotic pests and pathogens out of the country.
Ecology
Sep 18, 2014
1
0
(Phys.org) —University of Auckland research revealing the extent to which feral pigs can disturb forest vegetation and soils has led to a call for the animals to be controlled as a pest in areas of high ecological value.
Ecology
Mar 26, 2013
0
0
Cancer, food pathogens and biosecurity threats can all be detected using a sensing technique called surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). To meet ever-increasing demands in sensitivity, however, signals from molecules ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 10, 2012
0
0
A divide has emerged between the United States and the rest of the world on whether to publish or keep secret the details of an engineered mutant bird flu virus that can pass in the air between animals, health experts said ...
Other
Feb 29, 2012
1
0