Urgent actions to protect against khapra beetle

Khapra beetle is Australia’s number two National Priority Plant Pest and the number one plant priority pest for grains. It is not present in Australia, but it is a highly invasive pest that poses a major threat to Australia’s grains industry. Khapra beetle destroys grain quality making it unfit for human or animal consumption.

A number of countries, including Australia, have seen a recent increase in khapra interceptions. It is being detected in:

• imported plant products
• goods that it previously had no association with
• sea containers as a hitchhiker pest
• imports from countries not known to have khapra beetle.

Learn more about:

• khapra beetle in our pest bulletin
• the hitchhiking risk of khapra beetle in our article.

Posters

We have developed the following posters on where to look for khapra. Help us keep khapra beetle out of Australia by sharing them with your networks.

Look out for khapra beetle

Let's keep Khapra beetle out

Video

The below video gives an overview of the risks khapra beetle poses to Australia and how to identify this significant pest.

These are countries where khapra beetle has established.