Pea Weevil

The Wairarapa just wiped out a critter that’s been making farmers’ lives a misery

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The dreaded pea weevil is no more in the Wairarapa, after a successful eradication effort. So why does this matter?  OK, what on earth is a pea weevil? It’s a type of leaf beetle, so not actually a weevil after all, but the name is the name. Basically it gets into pea plants while they’re … Read more

Bad Bugs: Ranking the creepy crawlies threatening our economy

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Don Rowe takes a deep dive into the disgusting to rank the diseases and bugs currently plaguing our shores, threatening our agriculture and tourism industries. Just as our clean green image is threatened by the various turds, both bovine and backpacker, flooding into our waterways, so too is our biosecurity consistently in danger of bugs … Read more