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Green vegetable bug egg parasitoid - Trissolcus basalis
Added: 18 Jan 2018
Updated: 08 Aug 2018
The adventive egg parasitoid of Green vegetable bug Nezara viridula (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) was released into New Zealand in 1949 to help control the pest of crops such as beans and sweet corn. The population of the Gr...
Green potato bug - Cuspicona simplex
Added: 16 Jan 2013
Updated: 11 Jul 2018
This adventive shield bug comes from Australia and is found in the North and South Islands of New Zealand. It occurs on host plants, Solanum species, in crops, gardens and parks as well as in native ecosystems. Conservat...
Australasian green shield bug - Glaucias amyoti
Added: 14 Sep 2012
Updated: 11 Jul 2018
This native shield bug is found throughout the North Island of New Zealand and Nelson and Marlborough on the South Island. It is also present in Australia, East Timor, Indonesia (West Timor), Palau and Papaua New Guinea....
Schellenberg's soldier bug - Oechalia schellenbergii
Added: 06 Oct 2016
Updated: 09 Jul 2018
This native shield bug is present in New Zealand and Australia. Schellenberg's soldier bug is a predator that feeds on free living insects such as caterpillars and beetle larvae. It occurs in gardens and parks as well as...
Shield-bug nymphal parasitoid - Aridelus rufotestaceus
Added: 22 May 2017
Updated: 02 Aug 2017
This adventive wasp was first found in Auckland in 2010 by Stephen Thorpe. In other countries it was known to parasitize nymphs of green vegetable bug, Nezara viridula, (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). In New Zealand it has al...
Green vegetable bug - Nezara viridula
Added: 10 Oct 2016
Updated: 11 Jul 2018
The cosmopolitan Green vegetable bug was found in Northland, New Zealand in 1944. This adventive shield bug is now found throughout the North Island and in the warmer parts of the South Island. It feeds on native plants ...
Brown shield bug - Dictyotus caenosus
Added: 06 Oct 2016
Updated: 12 Nov 2018
This adventive shield bug comes from Australia. It is present in the North and South Islands of New Zealand. It is also present in New Caledonia. The Brown shield bug feeds on developing seeds of plants such as plantain ...
Pittosporum shield bug - Monteithiella humeralis
Added: 31 Jan 2013
Updated: 12 Jul 2018
This adventive shield bug comes from Australia and is found in the North and South Islands of New Zealand. It was first detected in New Zealand in 1950. It occurs on host plants, Pittopsorum species, in gardens and parks...
Brown soldier bug - Cermatulus nasalis nasalis
Added: 10 Oct 2016
Updated: 12 Nov 2018
The native subspecies, Brown soldier bug, C. nasalis nasalis is one of three subspecies in New Zealand. This subspecies is also present in Australia and Timor. It a predator that feeds on free living insects such as cate...
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