Resources

The COLOSS BEEBOOK is a unique venture that aims to standardise methods for studying the honey bee. From the outset, the vision of the project has been to develop a definitive inventory of standard techniques and methods in honey bee research, in order to ensure that studies performed by different laboratories around the world would be directly comparable with each other.

The Diagnostician's Cookbook is meant to help share information on techniques used in the diagnosis of plant diseases and disorders, including media recipes, diagnostic tests, diagnostic tips and lab manuals.

Psyl'list is an online database dedicated to jumping plant lice

This simple identification key is designed to identify most common adult insects to Order in Australia. The key has been designed for use by advanced secondary students, beginning undergraduates and others interested in entomology.

The National Priority Plant Pests (NPPP) list highlights the threats Australia faces from plant pests and diseases. The NPPP guides national action and investment of public funds to address these threats.

Records of caterpillar host plants curated by the Natural History Museum UK.

18 volumes covering all the 'macro' moths recorded from Borneo.

New National Plant Biosecurity Strategy 2021-2031

NDP 49 National Diagnostic Protocol for Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense TR4

The New Guinea fruit fly is one of the highest risk agricultural pests found around the globe. It is not present in Australia. The species currently occurs in Papua New Guinea and Indonesian West Papua, but there is a risk of it being introduced to Australia through the Torres Strait, or via illegally imported fruit. It poses a significant threat to Australian fruit growing industries above and beyond those of other fruit fly pests that are already present.

PaDIL offers high-quality colour diagnostic images and information on pests and diseases along with a number of comparative native species. You can use PaDIL to: view plant pest images to help with making diagnoses; compare plant pest of interest with comparative native species; query datasets and manage image database libraries; assist with use of PaDIL remote microscopy