A new online publication is available for Western Australia’s southern grain growers who have a snail, slug or slater problem in their crops.

Crop damage caused by Gastropods and slaters has increased over the past decade and the Albany and Esperance port zone GRDC Regional Cropping Solution Network has identified the issue as an R&D priority.

So the Stirlings to Coast Farmers grower group, independent consultants and a Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development entomologist have been running trials to evaluate baiting and other controls measures.

Svetlana Micic is DPIRD’s Albany based entomologist and has been running snail baiting trials with local farmers and researching snail reproduction.

In this podcast, Svetlana talks specifically about the snail problem and what baiting strategies growers should use to help manage this crop pest issue.

Further information:

Svetlana Micic | Entomologist Research, Development & Innovation Industry & Economic Development

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development

444 Albany Hwy, Albany WA

6330 t +61 (0)8 9892 8591 |

m +61 (0)427 772 051 | w dpird.wa.gov.au

‘Mitigating snails, slugs and slaters in southern Western Australia’ is available on the GRDC website at http://bit.ly/2V1GC7d and hard copies are available. To obtain a hard copy, contact the GRDC Perth office on [email protected] or call 08 9230 4600.

Useful Resources Snail and slug baiting guidelines:

http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/286735/Snail_and_slug_baiting_guidelines.pdf Mitigating snails, slugs and slaters in southern Western Australia: https://grdc.com.au/resources-and-publications/all-publications/publications/2019/mitigating-snails,-slugs-and-slaters

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