A BREAKTHROUGH IN MANAGING PSHB | Particle Could lab-grown colonies be the answer to a PSHB-free WA?

Could lab-grown colonies be the answer to a polyphagous shot-hole borer-free WA?

'A Breakthrough in Managing PSHB' is live on our website.

Read it here: particle.scitech.org.au/earth-water/...

#PSHB #polyphagousshotholeborer #pestmanagement

Original post on urbanists.social

Bad news on managing #PSHB (though not, sadly, entirely unexpected, given that no other place has managed to eradicate it): www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-19/shot-hol...

I haven't seen an update on the combined herbicide/fungicide treatments that […]

Original post on urbanists.social

Some very welcome good news!

I've seen enough amazing results in smaller trials that proved difficult to scale up that I'm holding on to some caution, but this is so promising - not just for Boorloo/Perth but also for other places that are struggling to manage PSHB […]

For my friends in the newly-created PSHB, my medication costs increased only $1160 per year. Hopefully, you weren’t as fortunate. /s #pshb #apwuhp

Unprecedented biosecurity response hopes to tackle wood-boring beetle outbreak - Australian Geographic It is only the size of a sesame seed but a tiny beetle that has entered Australia could change the way our cities look.

An overview of the polyphagous shot hole borer in Western Australia from Aleisha Orr in @ausgeo.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy. It not only has the potential to deplete urban tree canopy, but also to degrade native ecosystems and impact agriculture. www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2024/08...
#PSHB

Note, #pshb is hashtag for #PubSubHubbub protocol :-)

Nice #REST (another generally misunderstood aspect of Web Architecture) use case @: http://bit.ly/9PQ312 . #webid #webfinger #email #pshb

#pshb = #pubsubhubbub . #pshb rdfs:label "PubSubHubbub Data Exchange Protocol" . #nanotation .