Pests & Diseases News

With the fishing season due to start on Sunday (October 1), Biosecurity New Zealand is reminding fishermen and other recreational freshwater users of the importance of cleaning their equipment between waterways.

Biosecurity New Zealand is delaying the start of feral bee baiting, which is part of the overall programme to eliminate varroa in the Nelson area, Incursion Response manager David Hayes said today.

Biosecurity New Zealand is delaying the start of the feral baiting programme because it is been unable to obtain the necessary permission the company that owns the rights to the fipronil formulation.

A number of cucumber fruit fly eggs (Tephritidae Bactrocera cucumis) were found on Monday 11 September in a rock melon consignment from Australia.

Not long ago Aucklanders were keeping their eyes peeled for Jin the escaped Auckland Zoo otter. Now they’re again being asked to report sightings of red-vented bulbul birds.

Biosecurity New Zealand and the South Island Varroa Control Group will start the first phase of an agreed programme to eliminate varroa from the Nelson area this week, senior policy analyst Paul Bolger said today.

Biosecurity New Zealand’s latest 100 high-risk site didymo monitoring survey has been completed with five new detections – all of them in previously affected catchments or in rivers close by.

Biosecurity New Zealand will put out the draft management plan to South Island beekeepers for their comment this week, says Paul Bolger, Senior Policy Analyst with Biosecurity New Zealand.

Biosecurity New Zealand is starting its comprehensive movement control and management programme to slow the spread of varroa in the South Island this week, policy manager Paul Bolger said today

Biosecurity New Zealand and a combined Marlborough-based industry and council group will be working together to help fight the marine pest Didemnum vexillum.