Extended surveillance for incursions of TPP in eastern Australia

The Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA), funded by HIA, is coordinating a National surveillance program for the Tomato Potato psyllid (TPP) which was discovered in Western Australia in February 2017.

TIA have been operating a surveillance program for adult TPP in processing potato crops in eastern Australia since 2011 using yellow sticky traps. This program will be intensified in the 2017/18 growing season to encompass all host crops in the family Solanaceae across the nation. Surveillance for TPP will help to support State requirements in providing evidence of area freedom of this pest to preserve export markets.

We invite industry stakeholders to participate in the surveillance program by placing sticky traps in TPP susceptible crops and returning them to TIA for checking the presence of the pest. TIA will provide this service free of charge and supply reply-paid envelopes for returning traps.

If you would like to be involved in this program, contact Raylea Rowbottom on 0428745752, email raylea.rowbottom@utas.edu.au or go to www.utas.edu.au/tia/TPP-Surveillance for more information.