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Pests and diseases of bananas
Below is a list of pests and diseases that affect banana crops in Queensland.
Insect pests
- Banana aphid
- Banana flower thrips
- Banana fruit caterpillar
- Banana rust thrips
- Banana scab moth
- Banana weevil borer
- Banana-silvering thrips
- Banana-spotting and fruit-spotting bugs
- Cluster caterpillar
- Fruit piercing moths
- Queensland fruit fly
- Spider mite
- Two-spotted mite
- Spiralling whitefly
- Sugarcane bud moth
Diseases
- Bunchy top
- Panama disease (also see Fusarium wilt)
- Black sigatoka (leaf spot)
- Banana bract mosaic disease
- Banana leaf spot diseases
- Banana freckle
- Anthracnose
- Choke throat
- Rhizome soft rot
Quarantine areas
There are six quarantine areas in Queensland. These areas provide for the isolation of infections and therefore limit the economic impact of these diseases within specific quarantine areas.
- Far Northern (PDF, 111 kB)
- Northern Buffer (PDF, 130 kB)
- Northern (PDF, 148 kB)
- Southern Buffer (PDF, 172 kB)
- Southern (PDF, 167 kB)
- Special (PDF, 145 kB)
About 80% of the Australian banana crop is produced in northern Queensland's wet tropics. The other major growing area in Queensland is in the southern districts approximately 600 km away. The northern areas are not infected with bunchy top, but the southern areas are. Restrictions on movement of bananas allow this disease to be isolated.
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