The process of weed biocontrol involves many steps and often requires a huge investment of time and resources to be successful at managing and controlling a target species.

New research is targeting the pest species that cause environmental degradation in Australia, including weeds, mammals and invertebrates.

They make you itch and they are hard to find but scientists have got the body louse well and truly in their sights.

Hotter temperatures and reduced rainfall in South Australia due to climate change could prompt a period of ‘weed change’ across the state, according to a new report from CSIRO.

CSIRO invites you to a range of free public seminars being held around Canberra.

Climate Adaptation Flagship research is developing and delivering adaptation options to protect Australia’s marine and terrestrial species, ecosystems and the services they provide from the impacts of climate change.

Research into the use of natural and synthetic enzymes may assist manufacturing industries, agricultural and environmental biotechnologies and biosecurity.

CSIRO has a history of biological control successes and our scientists are using their expertise to find more natural enemies of introduced weeds and insect pests.

The National Invertebrate Pest Initiative (NIPI) brings together Australian scientists from State Departments, Universities, growers and CSIRO to improve pest management in Australian grain crops.

This 39-minute video captures a seminar given by CSIRO's Biodiversity Research Director, Dr Mark Lonsdale as part of the United Nations’ International Day for Biological Diversity 2009. Watch the video below, or download the accompanying PowerPoint slides. (51 pages)

If they're small, they fly, crawl, sting or bite, CSIRO’s Dr John La Salle wants to know about them. In this video podcast, Dr La Salle describes the race to save our insects. (3:07)

On the hunt for exotic species for biological control use in Australia, Dr Tim Heard, a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO, often finds himself in faraway places offering rewarding experiences.

Mr Tom Weir is regarded as one of the country’s foremost authorities on water bugs and beetles, investigating diverse habitats in Australia to find them.

The CSIRO Times is CSIRO's conference and events newspaper. Editions are compiled for various scientific conferences and public events.

This brochure discusses research into conditions affecting the low establishment rate of the bitou bush leaf-rolling moth and how to monitor for population establishment. (2 pages)

CSIRO Entomology and New South Wales Agriculture collaborated on a project to rear, release and evaluate the performance of the leaf-rolling moth Tortrix species to help control bitou bush.

Physical or chemical processes that remove high levels of dormancy would enable this condition to be introduced into barleys grown in rain prone areas.