Find out more about the plant pests and diseases which threaten our crops, trees, gardens and countryside.
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Find out more about the plant pests and diseases which threaten our crops, trees, gardens and countryside.
Details of plant health controls and where to report a pest/disease or any other non-native plant pest can be found below and reported to the relevant authority.
Written by plant pest and disease experts, our pest and disease alerts provide key facts on selected quarantine (notifiable) and non-quarantine (non-notifiable) pests and diseases of particular importance to the UK.
Under plant health legislation, a number of plant pests and diseases are classified as quarantine organisms and are therefore subject to statutory control.
Written by plant pest and disease experts, our pest and disease factsheets offer detailed information on a range of quarantine (notifiable) and non-quarantine (non-notifiable) pests and diseases.
Pest risk analysis (PRA) is the process of evaluating biological or other scientific and economic evidence to determine whether an organism is a pest or pathogen, if it should be regulated and to identify control measures to be taken against it.