PaDIL Knowledge Base

The Pest and Disease Image Library (PaDIL) is a biodiversity and biosecurity information management system with an emphasis on delivering high-quality diagnostic images, to facilitate image comparison in triage and taxonomic identification.

PaDIL records include invertebrates, bacteria, fungi, viruses and viroids and phytoplasmas that threaten field crops, pasture, forestry, horticulture, marine, human health and animals, to assist the government and industry in protecting against invasive threats to Australia's economy, environment, human health and amenity. Australian Pollinators and native Smut Fungi are also included.

PaDIL is hosted and managed by Plant Health Australia (PHA) and jointly owned and governed by the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF), Plant Health Australia, Museums Victoria and the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), Western Australia.

Joint owners of PaDIL

About the Libraries

Australian Biosecurity

The Pest and Disease Image Library is a repository of high-quality images and information tools designed to assist biosecurity and biodiversity stakeholders.

Australian Pollinators

Pollinators help to understand the Australian native bee Biodiversity and their interaction with the native and exotic flora.

Barrow Island QIM

The Barrow Island PaDIL website is unique in that it presents an entire island’s known invertebrate fauna. This resource is used to assist with active Quarantine Incursion Management (QIM) on Barrow Island.

Barrow Island is a Nature Reserve 90km off the northwest coastline of Western Australia. Between 2004 to 2006, an intensive invertebrate baseline study was conducted.

Smut Fungi of Australia

The Smut Fungi of Australia is an interactive guide for the 300 species of plant pathogenic smut fungi (Ustilaginomycetes) known from Australia.

New Zealand Biosecurity

The New Zealand Biosecurity image library is a collaborative effort between the Ministry for Primary Industries and Landcare Research New Zealand. The purpose of this library is to detect pests and diseases found in fresh produce imports from around the world at New Zealand Borders.

Seed Library

The aim of the Seeds library is for it to be used as a tool to identify seeds using images of morphological features, and as such, it is an indicative diagnostic tool rather than a definitive diagnostic tool.