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Plant pest and disease factsheets

Written by Fera's plant pest and disease experts, these factsheets offer detailed information on a range of quarantine (notifiable) and non-quarantine (non-notifiable) pests and diseases.

All the factsheets are all available to download in PDF format. To ensure maximum compatibility with PDF documents please download the latest version of Adobe Reader. This software is free and will ensure optimum performance when downloading and viewing PDF documents.

Notifiable Pests

• Beetles
• Differentiating Anoplophora longhorn beetle damage from that of native wood-boring insects (2012) (PDF 904KB)
• Argentine stem weevil Listronotus bonariensis (Kuschel) (2011) (PDF 268KB)
• Red-necked longhorn Aromia bungii (2012) (PDF 220KB)
• Citrus Longhorn Beetle (2010) (PDF 1.8MB)
• Colorado beetle (2006) (PDF 313KB)
• Colorado beetle: Identification (2011) (PDF 2.8MB)
• Diabrotica species (2006)(PDF 3.2MB)
• Lemon Tree Borer (2010) (PDF 1.5MB)
• Pepper Weevil (2013) (PDF 324KB)
• Potato Flea Beetle (2011) (PDF 263KB)
• Red Palm Weevil (2009) (PDF 314KB)
• Western corn rootworm (2006) (PDF 4MB)
• Bugs
• Bemisia tabaci - Tobacco whitefly (2006) (PDF 197KB)
• Platanus Lace Bug (2006) (PDF 308KB)
• Trialeurodes abutiloneus (Banded-winged whitefly) (2010) (PDF 2.7MB)
• Wheat Bug (2010) (PDF 244KB)
• White Peach Scale (2009) (PDF 423KB)
• Caterpillars
• Eggplant Borer (2010) (PDF 226KB)
• Palm Borer (2009) (PDF 280KB)
• South American Tomato Moth (2009) (PDF 237KB)
• Spodoptera species (2006) (PDF 342KB)
• Tomato Pinworm (2010) (PDF 2MB)
• Flies
• Drosophila suzukii (Spotted wing drosophila) (2010) (PDF 1.7MB)
• Liriomyza leaf miners (2007) (PDF 416KB)
• Thrips
• Thrips palmi (2006) (PDF 443KB)
• Mites
• Fuchsia Gall Mite (2012) (PDF 322KB)
• Goji Gall Mite (2009) (PDF 350KB)
• Swamp Cypress Rust Mite (2006) (PDF 848KB)
• Snails
• Pomacea species Apple Snails (2012) (PDF 3.2MB)
• Nematodes
• Potato Cyst Nematodes (2009) (PDF 149KB)
• Stem nematode on Narcissus and Tulip (2006) (PDF 2.2MB)

Notifiable Diseases

• Bacteria
• Brown rot of potato (2005) (PDF 235KB)
• Fireblight (2005) (PDF 308KB)
• Ring rot of potato (2004) (PDF 265KB)
• Fungi
• Karnal bunt (2005) (PDF 385KB)
• Phytophthora kernoviae (2010) (PDF 4.2MB)
• Phytophthora kernoviae bilingual factsheet (Welsh/English)(2010) (PDF 362KB)
• Phytophthora lateralis (2011) (PDF 3.2MB)
• Phytophthora ramorum (2010) (PDF 3.4MB)
• Phytophthora ramorum bilingual factsheet (Welsh/English) (2010) (PDF 362KB)
• Phytophthora ramorum and P. kernoviae diseases on bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)) (2013) (PDF 182KB)
• Symptom recognition of Phytophthora ramorum and P. kernoviae diseases on bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)) (2013) (PDF 817KB)
• P. ramorum - A Practical Guide for the Nursery and Garden Centre Industry (PDF 570KB)
• P. ramorum - A Practical Guide for Established Parks & Gardens, Amentity Landscape and Woodland Areas (PDF 724KB)
• Understanding Phytophthora ramorum - Key findings from UK research (Revised 2007) (PDF 329KB)
• Potato wart disease (2006) (PDF 294KB)
• Strawberry black spot (2006) (PDF 127KB)
• Virus/Viroids
• Emerging viroid threats to UK Tomato production (2010) (PDF 1.9MB)
• Plum pox (2006) (PDF 207KB)

Non-notifiable pests

• Bugs
• Western Conifer Seed Bug (2009) (PDF 236KB)
• Bougainvillea Mealybug Phenacoccus peruvianus (2011) (PDF 368KB)
• Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Halyomorpha halys (2011) (PDF 2.6MB)
• Fletcher scale Parthenolecanium fletcheri (2011) (PDF 2.6MB)
• Pink wax scale Ceroplastes rubens (2012) (PDF 274KB)
• Caterpillars
• Box Tree Caterpillar Cydalima perspectalis (2011) (PDF 2.8MB)
• Flies
• Blueberry Gall Midge (2010) (PDF 795KB)

Non-notifiable diseases

• Bacteria
• Bacterial Rots of Potato Tubers (2009) (PDF 288KB) (Includes information on the notifiable diseases Brown Rot and Ring Rot)
• Fungi
• Downy Mildews (2007) (PDF 296KB)
• Fusarium and Verticillium Wilts (2008) (PDF 850KB)
• Grey Mould (2007) (PDF 270KB)
• Phytophthora Diseases (2007) (PDF 201KB)
• Powdery Mildews (2007) (PDF 121KB)
• Pythium Diseases of Ornamental Plants (2007) (PDF 621KB)
• Rhizoctonia Potato Disease (2011) (PDF 1.4MB)
• Rusts (2007) (PDF 268KB)
• Spraing Disease of Potato (2009) (PDF 290KB)
• Virus/Viroids
• Aphid Transmitted Viruses of Potato (2009) (PDF 293KB)

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