Farm Forestry New Zealand
PESTS AND DISEASES OF FORESTRY IN NEW ZEALAND
Bronze Bugs on the move
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From Forest Health News 276, October 2017.
Bronze bug (Thaumastocoris peregrinus), the sap-sucking Eucalyptus spp. pest is on the move. Scion entomologist Toni Withers has now recorded bronze bug in Tauranga, extending its range in the North Island significantly east from its previous records in Cambridge (apart from an isolated population in Napier). Bronze bug was first recorded in New Zealand in March 2012 and has been dispersing relatively slowly in New Zealand (see FH News 233 for more details). It causes the characteristic ‘bronzing’ of all or parts of tree foliage it is infesting. Usually this symptom is most obvious in the autumn and winter but the FH news editors are interested in any finds of this species north of Auckland and south of Cambridge.
Andrew Pugh
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