INTERESTING INSECTS
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Steelblue ladybird - Halmus chalybeus
Added: 10 Dec 2012
Updated: 29 Oct 2018
This adventive ladybird from Australia was first released in New Zealand in 1899. It is now the most common ladybird in Auckland, widespread in the North Island and present in the North of the South Island. It is found o...
Coprosma white erineum mite - Phyllocoptes coprosma
Added: 14 Sep 2012
Updated: 14 Nov 2018
This endemic gall mite has been found in the North and South Islands of New Zealand. It occurs on host plants, Coprosma species, in city gardens and parks as well as native ecosystems. The mite induces white hairs, erine...
Flocculent flax scale - Poliaspis floccosa
Added: 14 Jan 2016
Updated: 14 Aug 2019
This distinctive endemic scale insect lives on the underside of leaves of its endemic host plants, especially New Zealand flax, Phormium species (Hemerocallidaceae). It is found on the North and South Islands. Conservati...
Green planthopper - Siphanta acuta
Added: 05 Oct 2017
Updated: 23 Jul 2018
This adventive plant hopper from Australia was first reported in New Zealand by Kirkaldy in 1909. It is now found in the North Island and parts of the South Island. It occurs on its herbaceous, shrub and tree host plants...
Pittosporum psyllid - Trioza vitreoradiata
Added: 14 Sep 2012
Updated: 03 Oct 2019
This endemic psyllid lives in the North and South Islands of New Zealand. It lives on its host plants, Pittosporum species, in city gardens and parks as well as native ecosystems. It has been accidentally transferred to ...
Australian citrus whitefly - Orchamoplatus citri
Added: 23 Oct 2018
Updated: 05 Nov 2018
This adventive whitefly comes from Australia. It was first found in Auckland in October 2000 and quickly spread through the North Island and has reached the top of the South Island. It is mainly found on Citrus trees, bu...
Soft wax scale - Ceroplastes destructor
Added: 01 Oct 2018
Updated: 01 Nov 2018
This adventive scale insect was first reported to be in New Zealand in 1940. It is found in the Northern half of New Zealand. It is mainly found on cultivated plants and is an important pest of citrus in Gisborne and Nor...
Peppercorn scale - Epelidochiton piperis
Added: 11 Dec 2017
Updated: 18 Jul 2018
This distinctive endemic scale insect is found on the underside of leaves of its tree and shrub host plants. It lives in lowland forests and on urban trees in northern North Island and northern South Island. Conservation...
Tomato potato psyllid - Bactericera cockerelli
Added: 08 Dec 2016
Updated: 06 Sep 2018
This adventive psyllid comes from Central and North America where it breeds primarily on potatoes, tomatoes and other plants in the potato family, Solanaceace. It also breeds on kumara, which is in the bindweed family, C...
Chinese wax scale - Ceroplastes sinensis
Added: 08 Oct 2018
Updated: 18 Oct 2018
This adventive scale insect was first reported in New Zealand 1932. It is now found in the northern half of the North Island and Great Island (Three Kings Islands). It has been found on native and plants from other count...
Giant willow aphid - Tuberolachnus salignus
Added: 23 Feb 2017
Updated: 21 Oct 2019
This cosmopolitan adventive aphid was first found in Auckland in December 2013. It has since spread to its primary host plants, willow trees (Salix species (Salicaceae)), in other parts of the country. Its feeding produc...
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