PESTS AND DISEASES OF FORESTRY IN NEW ZEALAND
Predators and parasitoids
- Biological control agent introduction regulation and the compliance rationale
From Biosecurity 100, October 2010. In the following article AgResearch scientist and leading biocontrol researcher, Barbara Barratt, discusses this regulatory framework and its importance to New Zealand’s biosecurity. An introduction… - New biological control agent for Acacia tortoise beetle?
From Forest Health News No. 195, May/June 2009. In January 2009 a wasp was detected parasitising the eggs of the Acacia tortoise beetle, Dicranosterna semipunctata, in Rotorua. This beetle is… - Spread of Paropsis charybdis parasitoids into the South Island
From Forest Health News 182, March 2008. Paropsis charybdis (Chrysomelidae), an introduced Australian species, is the most important defoliator of Eucalyptus spp. in New Zealand.The parasitoid wasp Enoggera nassaui (Pteromalidae)… - Biological control of pests
From Biosecurity 64, December 2005. Biological control of pests is well established in New Zealand and is increasingly supported by science. It is cheap, safe, self-perpetuating and can be very…
Ancistrocerus gazella European tube wasp
Australian leafroller tachinid Trigonospila brevifacies
Brown Soldier bug Cermatulus nasalis
European tube wasp Ancistrocerus gazella
Lacewing, brown Micromus tasmaniae
Large Spotted Ladybird Harmonia conformis
Micromus tasmaniae Brown lacewing
Schellenberg's soldier bug Oechalia schellenbergii
Soldier bug
Steelblue ladybird Halmus chalybeus
Trigonospila brevifacies Australian leafroller tachnid
