INTERESTING INSECTS
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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...
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...
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...
Forestier's ladybird - Rhyzobius forestieri
Added: 16 Nov 2016
Updated: 31 Oct 2018
This adventive ladybird from Australia is found in the North and South Islands of New Zealand. It was released into New Zealand in 1889 to help control scale insects. It has been released in many other countries for the ...
Citrus whitefly ladybird - Serangium maculigerum
Added: 17 Jan 2013
Updated: 31 Oct 2018
This adventive ladybird comes from Australia and was first found in New Zealand by Stephen Thorpe in Auckland Domain in 2005. It is present in Northland and Auckland, and spreading south. It feeds on several kinds of ins...
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