Priority pests and diseases of biosecurity concern to plant and aquatic health
Priority pests and diseases of biosecurity concern to plant and aquatic health
These pests are not in New Zealand. We want to keep it that way for the protection of our environment, our economy, and our people.
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About the priority pests and diseases list
Alphabetical list of priority pests and diseases
Horticultural pests and diseases
- Aster yellows phytoplasma
- Avocado sunblotch disease
- Bacterial leaf scorch
- Bacterial soft rot
- Black rot
- Brown marmorated stink bug
- Citrus longhorn beetle
- Columnea latent viroid (CLVd)
- Flavescence dorée of grapevine
- Kanzawa spider mite
- Laurel wilt and the Asian ambrosia beetle
- Maize lethal necrosis disease
- Medfly (Mediterranean fruit fly)
- Melon fly
- Oriental fruit fly
- Painted apple moth
- Pea early-browning virus
- Pea weevil
- Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd)
- Psa – new strains (kiwifruit vine canker)
- Queensland fruit fly
- Red imported fire ant
- Ryegrass bunt
- Serpentine leaf miner
- South American fruit fly
- Spotted lanternfly
- Spotted wing drosophila
- Texas root rot
- Tomato apical stunt viroid (TASVd)
- Tomato torrado disease
- Violet root rot
- Wheat stem rust Ug99
Freshwater pests and diseases
- Bacterial kidney disease in finfish
- Chinese mitten crab
- Crayfish plague
- Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis
- Epizootic ulcerative syndrome
- Furunculosis
- Infectious pancreatic necrosis
- Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia
- Asian brown mussel
- Asian shore crab
- Bacterial kidney disease in finfish
- Caulerpa
- Chinese mitten crab
- European shore crab
- Furunculosis
- Infectious pancreatic necrosis
- Infectious salmon anaemia disease
- Marteiliosis
- Mikrocytosis
- Northern Pacific seastar
- Red sea bream iridoviral disease
- Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia
- Withering abalone syndrome
Pastoral pests and diseases
Tree pests and diseases
- Asian longhorn beetle
- Ceratocystis wilt
- Daño foliar del pino
- Dothistroma needle blight
- European pine shoot moth
- Gypsy moth
- Mountain pine bark beetle
- Nun moth
- Painted apple moth
- Pine pitch canker
- Pine processionary moth
- Pine shoot beetle
- Pinewood nematode carried by the sawyer beetle
- Sudden oak death
- Western gall rust
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