Primary Industries Standing Committee Forestry and Forest Products Committee Research Priorities and Co-ordination Committee RESEARCH WORKING GROUP 7 FOREST HEALTH Annual Pest and Disease Status Report for Australia and New Zealand 2004-2005 November 2005 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................8 PURPOSE.........................................................................................................................................8 AUSTRALIA................................................................................................................................9 QUEENSLAND ....................................................................................................9 Plantations..............................................................................................................9 Pinus spp............................................................................................................9 Insect Pests.....................................................................................................9 Sirex noctilio (Sirex wood wasp)................................................................9 Essigella californica ...................................................................................9 Aconophora compressa (Hemiptera: Membracidae) Lantana bug................9 Diseases.......................................................................................................10 Hoop Pine – Araucaria cunninghamii...............................................................10 Wollemi Pine – Wollemia nobilis......................................................................10 Eucalyptus species............................................................................................11 Insect Pests...................................................................................................11 Psyllids.....................................................................................................12 Leaf Beetles..............................................................................................12 Swarming Scarabs....................................................................................12 Erinose mite..............................................................................................12 Plate galler................................................................................................12 Weevils....................................................................................................13 Gum leaf skeletoniser...............................................................................13 Sawflies....................................................................................................13 Leaf blister sawfly....................................................................................13 Wingless grasshopper...............................................................................13 Christmas Beetles.....................................................................................13 Stem borers...............................................................................................14 Thaumastocoris sp. Bug............................................................................14 Flea beetles (Chaetocnema spp.)...............................................................16 Paper Wasps.............................................................................................16 Diseases.......................................................................................................16 Quambalaria pitereka...............................................................................16 Other eucalypt diseases.............................................................................17 Forest health surveillance.....................................................................................18 Quarantine............................................................................................................20 Japanese Pine Sawyer, Monochamus alternatus........................................20 West Indian Drywood Termite, Cryptotermes brevis.................................20 Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invincta ..............................................21 Gypsy Moth, Lymantria dispar.................................................................21 Research and Development..................................................................................21 NEW SOUTH WALES ......................................................................................23 Plantations............................................................................................................23 Pinus spp..........................................................................................................23 Insect Pests...................................................................................................23 Sirex noctilio (Sirex wood wasp)..............................................................23 Ips grandicollis (Fivespined bark beetle) and other bark beetles................23 Essigella californica (Monterey pine aphid)..............................................23 Diseases.......................................................................................................23 2 Dothistroma septosporum (Dothistroma needle blight & cast)..................23 Armillaria novaezelandiae........................................................................23 Sphaeropsis sapinea (=Diplodia)..............................................................24 Environmental (drought, frost, fire, nutrient, weeds, etc.)..............................24 Snow damage...........................................................................................24 Hail damage..............................................................................................24 Vertebrate pests............................................................................................24 Possum.....................................................................................................24 Wallaby....................................................................................................24 Eucalyptus species............................................................................................24 Insect Pests...................................................................................................24 Psyllids (Cardiaspina, Ctenarytaina, Creiis).............................................24 Leaf beetles..............................................................................................25 Erinose mite (Rhombacus sp.)...................................................................25 Stem borers...............................................................................................25 Fungal and insect damage.........................................................................25 Diseases.......................................................................................................25 Corymbia shoot blight (Quambalaria pitereka).........................................25 Stem cankers............................................................................................25 Phaeophleospora spp.................................................................................26 Mistletoe...................................................................................................26 Managed natural forests.......................................................................................26 Nurseries..............................................................................................................26 Conifer species.................................................................................................26 Eucalyptus species............................................................................................26 Urban and rural....................................................................................................26 Quarantine............................................................................................................27 VICTORIA.........................................................................................................28 Plantations............................................................................................................28 Pinus spp..........................................................................................................28 Insect Pests...................................................................................................28 Sirex noctilio (Sirex wood wasp)..............................................................28 Ips grandicollis (Fivespined Bark Beetle) and other bark beetle species....28 Essigella californica (Monterey Pine Aphid)............................................28 Diseases.......................................................................................................28 Dothistroma..............................................................................................28 Cyclaneusma Needle Cast.........................................................................29 Other........................................................................................................29 Eucalyptus species............................................................................................29