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Media release: Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer detected in Perth, Western Australia (12 December 2023)
Last updated 7 Dec 2025, 04:41 am
The polyphagous shot-hole borer (PSHB) was detected in the Perth metropolitan area in September 2021, found outside the initial PSHB quarantine zone established in Fremantle. The Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development is taking immediate action in response to confirmed detections of the PSHB, an exotic beetle (at the time of writing, 12 December 2023).