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Weed Biocontrol newsletter
Issue 108, May 2024 articles
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New Team Members
14 June 2024
Welcome Hester Williams and Anna Vaughan
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Biocontrol Training for Kaitiaki
14 June 2024
In early April, Science Team Leader Angela Bownes and Senior Researcher Ronny Groenteman ran an introductory weed biocontrol workshop for mana whenua kaitiaki from the Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland region.
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Old Man’s Beard Pathogens
14 June 2024
The old man’s beard (Clematis vitalba) weed biocontrol project started in the early 1990s, when a fungal pathogen (Phoma clematidina), sourced from another Clematis species (Clematis ligusticifolia) in the USA, was released in New Zealand. While this pathogen initially caused significant damage to o...
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Weed biocontrol
Revisiting Broom Gall Mite Release Sites
14 June 2024
Monitoring the effectiveness of weed biocontrol agents is essential, but it can be neglected. Understandably, stakeholders tend to prefer to invest in new projects rather than make room in tight budgets for expensive, high-quality evaluation studies. To help solve this investment conundrum, here in ...
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A First for Tuvalu
14 June 2024
With assistance from MWLR’s Natural Enemies - Natural Solutions (NENS) programme, Tuvalu welcomed its first-ever natural enemy to control an invasive weed in April.
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Weed biocontrol