Invasive Insects: Management Methods Explored
Invasive insect species can act as a plague across the globe, capable of vast expansion and rapid, proliferate reproduction. The spread of pathogens of serious…
Biosecurity - Control
Once pests have become established, how can we best control or eradicate them?
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Underlying beliefs linked to public opinion about gene drive and pest-specific toxin for pest control
Context Developing a new tool for wide-scale rat eradication is necessary for significant biodiversity gains. Underlying beliefs linked to public opinion can help guide policy…
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Leveraging Motivations, Personality, and Sensory Cues for Vertebrate Pest Management
Managing vertebrate pests is a global conservation challenge given their undesirable socio-ecological impacts. Pest management often focuses on the ‘average’ individual, neglecting individual-level behavioural variation…
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Germline progenitors and oocyte production in the honeybee queen ovary
Understanding the reproduction of honeybee queens is crucial to support populations of this economically important insect. Here we examine the structure of the honeybee ovary…
Report
A systematic literature review of attitudes to pest control methods in New Zealand
This systematic literature review on attitudes to pest control methods in New Zealand has been funded as part of New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science…
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Future developments of the MPI TERM CGE model – a review of the literature June 2023
This review explores the literature on economic models and their application, in relation to the potential avenues for the development and expansion of the Ministry…
Data Set
BRIEF: Predators beware – Swarms of intelligent drones are coming
Advances in artificial intelligence, sensors, and robotics technologies could enhance the way we search for and remove invasive predators from Aotearoa NZ. A multidisciplinary team…
Webinar
Barcoding technologies and pipelines
Wananga 4: Barcoding technologies and pipelines Te Tiriti-guided national DNA reference library wānanga series** Facilitators: Dr Manpreet Dhami; Manaaki Whenua and Dr Leilani Walker…
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BOOK: Healthy bee, sick bee: the influence of parasites, pathogens, predators and pesticides on honey bees
In this book, entomologist Phil Lester explores the wonderfully complex and sometimes brutally efficient life history of honey bees, and the problems they face in…
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Probabilistic economic analysis of a weather-based adaptive disease management strategy-the case of myrtle rust in New Zealand nurseries
In agricultural systems, responsive management can mitigate the effects of risk and uncertainty by facilitating adaptation to changing conditions. A tool for evaluating management systems…
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Kaurilands Summit 3 – 2023
A playlist of presentations given at the Kaurilands Summit 3 held by Ngā Rākau Taketake, 9 – 12 May 2023, at Semenoff Stadium, Whangārei.
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Wasp Wipeout
In 2016 Stuff’s Nelson office joined forces with the Department of Conservation and the Tasman Environmental Trust to target one of New Zealand’s most destructive…
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Professor Peter Dearden was part of a panel discussing genetic methods for pest control
Skip to 1.55min to hear Peter Dearden speak at the Primary Industries Summit.
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Alternatives for mammal pest control in New Zealand in the context of concerns about 1080 toxicant (sodium fluoroacetate)
The ongoing use of 1080 toxin for the control of mammal pests in New Zealand remains highly contentious. Several reviews over the last 25 years…
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Exploiting interspecific olfactory communication to monitor predators
We devised a field experiment to investigate whether dominant predator (ferret Mustela furo) body odor would alter the behavior of three common mesopredators: stoats (Mustela erminea), hedgehogs…
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The rise of invasive species denialism
Scientific consensus on the negative impacts of invasive alien species (IAS) is increasingly being challenged. Whereas informed scepticism of impacts is important, science denialism is…
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