Guides to forest tree pests and diseases

• Managing pests and diseases in plantation forests - a guide for preventing damage, assessing symptoms, management options, forest certification, research in forest plantation health 
• Forest health guide: symptoms of insect and fungal damage on trees (eResearch Archive) - a quick reference to common damage symptoms in trees
• Healthy hardwoods: a field guide to pests, diseases and nutritional disorders in subtropical hardwoods (eResearch Archive) - focused on subtropical plantation hardwoods, this book includes host tree susceptibilities and relative occurrences of the damage agents
• Healthy plantations: a field guide to pests and pathogens of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Vietnam (eResearch Archive) - this book includes exotic pests and diseases that are also relevant to Australian hardwood and softwood plantations 

Pests and diseases of trees - fact sheets

Stem borers

• Sirex wood wasp
• Fivespined bark beetle
• Giant wood moth
• Longicorn borers

Leaf-chewing and sap-sucking

• Christmas beetles
• Gumleaf skeletonizer
• Leaf beetles
• Lerps and psyllids 
• Swarming scarab beetles (spring beetles)
• Erinose mite
• Plate galler

Diseases

• Eucalypt (myrtle) rust 
• Kirramyces leaf diseases
• Phellinus noxius - brown root rot
• Quambalaria shoot blight
• Pink disease

Pests and diseases in timber - fact sheets

• Timber quarantine in Australia
• West Indian drywood termite
• Drywood termites in Queensland (PDF, 414 kB) - the damage caused by drywood termites, how to conduct inspections, preventative measures and treatments
• Subterranean termites in Queensland (PDF, 417 kB) - biology, habits and damage caused by the main groups of subterranean termites that attack timber in Queensland
• Subterranean termite infestation in buildings (PDF, 438 kB) - key strategies for protecting buildings and other structures from subterranean termite infestation
• Subterranean termite baiting systems (PDF, 359 kB) - baiting systems used for managing subterranean termites and information about the habits of some termites that damage timber-in-service in Australia
• Ants in timber in Queensland (PDF, 244 kB) - ants do not damage sound timber but can infest decaying timber where they may be mistaken for wood-eating species and termites
• Powderpost beetle
• Powderpost beetles in Queensland timber (PDF, 133 kB) - includes infomation on biology and damage caused by the powderpost beetle and regulations governing its management in the timber industry
• Queensland pine beetle
• Common furniture beetle
• Pine bark anobiid
• Cigarette beetle
• Timber borers in Queensland houses (PDF, 145 kB) - includes information on damage caused to unseasoned timber (by auger beetles, Longicorn, jewel and ambrosia beetles, pinworms, weevils and wood moths) and to seasoned timber (powderpost beetles and the Queensland pine beetle)

Further information

• Pests of timber (Queensland Government Bookshop)
• Diseases in Timber Act 1975