Australia is baking through another extreme heat wave, with temperatures forecast to reach above 45°C for multiple days in a ...

A biocontrol program has commenced on the South Coast, where Australian-bred parasitoid flies have been released to help control snail pests and protect crop yields, quality and growers' profitability ...

Experts say that since the overpopulation of both affects native wildlife similarly, the country should use the same strategies in managing them. By Julia Bergin The Australia Letter is a weekly ...

Cane toads are notorious pests in Australia, colonizing habitats and poisoning other wildlife. Park rangers euthanized the 5.95-pound animal,... Park rangers in northern Australia found a cane toad so ...

Victorian scientists are working to identify the pheromone that physiologically drives invasive sea stars to congregate en masse during mating, to help remove the pest from Australian marine areas and ...

Last year the Honeybee Corner reported that Australia had found an incursion of Asian honeybees (Apis cerana) in one isolated port area. This Asian bee carries both the varroa parasitic mite and also ...

A university student was fined $35,000 for trying to smuggle protected insects out of Australia, officials said. Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. A ...