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Topic: Agriculture Victoria

Brown marmorated stink bug on a leaf

Published - 9 July 2021
By Sarah Brown (Agriculture Victoria)

Episode 12: Check your deliveries for this stinky hitchhiker with Antonette Walford

Cover image: Adult Brown Marmorated Stink Bug – Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org
The Good, The Bad and the Bug-ly, a Podcast series by the Urban …
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Agriculture Victoria, bad bugs, pests, podcasts

The Good, The Bad, and the Bug-ly

Children with magnifying glass in the grass

Published - 17 April 2021
By Sarah Brown (Agriculture Victoria)

Episode 10: Working together to enhance our biosecurity with Tim Hurst

The Good, The Bad and the Bug-ly, a Podcast series by the Urban Plant Health Network
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Agriculture Victoria, biosecurity, podcasts, surveillance

The Good, The Bad, and the Bug-ly

Bee on a flower

Published - 25 March 2021
By Sarah Brown (Agriculture Victoria)

Episode 8: Keeping your backyard bees healthy with Cynthia Kefaloukos

The Good, The Bad and the Bug-ly, a Podcast series by the Urban Plant Health Network
Episode 8: Keeping your backyard bees healthy with Cynthia Kefaloukos

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Agriculture Victoria, bees, beneficials, podcasts

The Good, The Bad, and the Bug-ly

Stick trap in a tomato garden

Published - 16 March 2021
By Sarah Brown (Agriculture Victoria)

Melbourne gardeners join the psyllid hunt

This Easter, gardeners around Melbourne are setting traps in their veggie patches and citrus trees to help Agriculture Victoria researchers search for exotic psyllids. Recently we …
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Agriculture Victoria, Citrus Australia, pests, surveillance

Protect your patch, What bug is that?

3 images of fruit fly and maggots in a tomato

Published - 26 February 2021
By Sarah Brown (Agriculture Victoria)

Act fast to manage that nasty Queensland Fruit Fly in your garden

Queensland fruit fly (QFF) (Bactrocera tryoni) is a significant pest which can infest many different types of fruit and fruiting vegetables, making them inedible. It …
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Agriculture Victoria, bad bugs, fruit

Gardening tips, Protect your patch

Portrait of Dr Rosa Crnov

Published - 14 January 2021
By Kellyanne Harris & Jo Chong Wah (Agriculture Victoria)

Episode 5: The role of the Victorian Chief Plant Health Officer with Dr. Rosa Crnov

The Good, The Bad and the Bug-ly, a Podcast series by the Urban Plant Health Network
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Agriculture Victoria, bad bugs, biosecurity, exotic

The Good, The Bad, and the Bug-ly

Bumblebee on blue wildflower

Published - 14 October 2020
By Kellyanne Harris and Pippa Auld (Agriculture Victoria)

Help keep bumblebees out of Victoria

Bumblebee on blue wild flower
Bumblebees are large, hairy, social bees belonging to the family Apidae (subfamily Bombinae). Bumblebees are not known to occur on mainland …
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Agriculture Victoria, bad bugs, bees, exotic, pests

What bug is that?

Published - 27 May 2020
By Jo Chong Wah (Agriculture Victoria)

Who wants to be a Pest Warrior?

Who wants to be a Pest Warrior? At the Urban Plant Health Network we’re hoping ALL of you will want to be one!
Read our Pest …
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Agriculture Victoria, bad bugs, exotic, garden, pests

Protect your patch, Resources, What bug is that?, Where to go for help

Read that chemical or pesticide label

Published - 14 April 2020
By Steven Field and Deb Banks (Agriculture Victoria)

Gardeners – read those chemical and pesticide labels!

Backyard gardeners – make sure you read and follow the label of any chemicals you are using in your garden!
We are staying at home and …
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Agriculture Victoria, bees, beneficials, garden, pests

Gardening tips, Protect your patch

Published - 1 April 2020
By Jo Chong Wah and Pippa Auld (Agriculture Victoria)

Our activity book will get your kids learning about “bad bugs” to look out for

It’s a really challenging time, with all of us in self-isolation.. Parents are working from home and kids are out of school. Are you struggling to …
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Agriculture Victoria, bad bugs, bees, exotic, garden, pests, plant health

What bug is that?

Exotic pests and diseases can hitchhike in cargo from trading and travel

Published - 30 October 2019
By Lana Russell (Agriculture Victoria)

How do pests and diseases get into Australia and how can we detect them?

Historically, our country has been protected by its geographic isolation, which means Australia is free today of many of the pests and diseases common to …
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Agriculture Victoria, biosecurity, diseases, pests

Protect your patch, Resources

Published - 2 October 2019
By Agriculture Victoria

Look out for the brown marmorated stink bug this spring

The brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) is an insect that feeds on fruits and vegetables and over winter shelters inside homes and buildings, vehicles, machinery …
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Agriculture Victoria, bad bugs, garden, pests

What bug is that?

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