Plant diseases, insect pests and invasive plants

Priority plant pests and diseases

Help protect Queensland – report suspicious plant symptoms

Some pests and diseases are of such concern that you are legally required to report sightings to the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF).

Protect Queensland from priority plant pests and diseases by:

using the practical advice below to look for and identify priority plant pests and diseases
phoning Biosecurity Queensland on 13 25 23 or contacting the Exotic Plant Pest Hotline on 1800 084 881 if you see the symptoms described.

Image	Common name	Affected plants/items
	African citrus psyllid	Citrus and citrus relatives
	American serpentine leafminer	Horticultural crops e.g. potatoes, melons, eggplant, tomatoes, vegetables
	Asian citrus psyllid	Citrus and citrus relatives
	Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse of pineapple	Pineapple
	Banana bunchy top	Banana
	Banana freckle	Banana
	Banana skipper butterfly	Banana, Musa species, including Manila hemp (Musa textalis)
	Black Sigatoka	Banana
	Brown marmorated stink bug	Multiple hosts
	Capsicum whitefly	Multiple hosts
	Citrus canker	Citrus and citrus relatives
	Citrus fruit borer	Citrus and citrus relatives
	Citrus powdery mildew	Citrus
	Cocoa pod borer	Cocoa, rambutan
	Coffee mealybug	Multiple hosts
	Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus	Cucurbits and some weeds
	European house borer	Seasoned, untreated coniferous timber
	Exotic longhorned beetles	Multiple hosts
	Exotic spongy moth	Multiple hosts
	Giant African snail	Multiple hosts
	Giant pine scale	Pine, fir and spruce
	Glassy-winged sharpshooter	Multiple hosts
	Grape phylloxera	Grapes
	Grapevine leaf rust	Grapes
	Guava root-knot nematode
	Huanglongbing	Citrus and citrus relatives
	Jack Beardsley mealybug	Multiple hosts
	Khapra beetle
	Mal secco	Citrus
	Mandarin stem-pitting	Mandarin
	Mango leaf gall midge	Mango
	Mango malformation disease	Mango
	Mango pulp weevil	Mango
	Mango shoot looper	Mango
	Mediterranean fruit fly	Multiple hosts
	Melon fly	Multiple hosts
	Melon necrotic spot virus	Melons and cucumber
	Melon thrips	Multiple hosts
	Myrtle rust	Myrtaceae
	Navel orangeworm	Multiple hosts
	New Guinea fruit fly	Multiple hosts
	Oriental fruit fly	Multiple hosts
	Panama disease tropical race 4 (TR4)	Banana
	Papaya ringspot disease	Papaya and cucurbits
	Pierce's disease	Xyllela affects multiple hosts
	Plum pox virus (Sharka)	Stonefruit and almonds
	Polyphagous shot-hole borer	Multiple hosts
	Potato cyst nematodes (PCN)	Solanaceae
	Pyriform scale	Multiple hosts
	Red banded mango caterpillar	Mango
	Serpentine leafminer	Horticultural crops e.g. potatoes, melons, eggplant, tomatoes, ornamental plant species
	South African pit scale	Multiple hosts
	Southern red mite	Multiple hosts
	Spiralling whitefly	Multiple hosts
	Strawberry angular leaf spot	Strawberries
	Tomato red spider mite	Multiple hosts
	Tomato-potato psyllid	Multiple hosts
	Vegetable leafminer	Multiple hosts