Farm Forestry New Zealand
Official website of the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association
Pests and diseases of timber and dead wood, wood borers and bark borers
- Aenetus virescens, puriri moth
- Amasa truncata, introduced ambrosia beetle
- Ambeodontus tristis, Two-toothed longhorn
- Anobium punctatum, household borer
- Arhopalus tristis, Burnt pine longhorn beetle
- Australian termites in New Zealand
- Beech buprestid, Nascioides enysi
- Black pine bark beetle, Hylastes ater
- Burnt pine longhorn beetle, Arhopalus tristis
- Calliprason pallidus, longhorn beetle
- Ceratokalotermes spoliator, Australian termite in New Zealand
- Coptomma lineatum, a native longhorn beetle
- Coptotermes acinaciformis, Australian subterranean termites
- Coptotermes frenchi, Australian subterranean termites
- Cypress Bark Beetle, Phloeosinus cupressi
- Drywood termite, New Zealand Kalotermes brouni
- Ernobius mollis, Pine Bark Anobiid
- Glyptotermes tuberculatus, Australian termite in New Zealand
- Golden-haired Bark Beetle, Hylurgus ligniperda
- Granulate ambrosia beetle, Xylosandrus crassiusculus
- Hadrobregmus magnus, native anobiid wood borer
- Hexatricha pulverulenta, squeaking longhorn
- Household borer, Anobium punctatum
- Household borer, native, Leanobium flavomaculatum
- Huhu beetle, Prionoplus reticularis
- Hylastes ater, Black pine bark beetle
- Hylurgus ligniperda, Golden-haired Bark Beetle
- Kalotermes brouni, the New Zealand drywood termite
- Kanuka longhorn, Ochrocydus huttoni
- Keyhole Ambrosia Beetle, Xyleborinus saxesenii
- Leanobium flavomaculatum, a native household borer
- Lemon-tree borer, Oemona hirta
- Longhorn beetle, Calliprason pallidus
- Longhorn beetle, native, Coptomma lineatum
- Longnosed Kauri Weevil, Mitrastethus baridioides
- Lyctus brunneus, powder-post beetle,
- Mitrastethus baridioides, Longnosed Kauri Weevil
- Nascioides enysi, Beech buprestid
- Native anobiid wood borer, Hadrobregmus magnus
- Ochrocydus huttoni, kanuka longhorn
- Oemona hirta, Lemon-tree borer
- Pachycotes peregrinus, a native borer in moist logs and slow-seasoning forest produce
- Phloeosinus cupressi, the Cypress Bark Beetle
- Pine Bark Anobiid, Ernobius mollis
- Pinhole borers, native
- Pit weevils, Psepholax species
- Platypus apicalis, pinhole borer
- Platypus gracilis, pinhole borer
- Porotermes adamsoni, Australian dampwood termites
- Powder-post beetle, Lyctus brunneus
- Prionoplus reticularis, the huhu beetle
- Psepholax species, pit weevils
- Puriri moth, Aenetus virescens
- Squeaking longhorn, Hexatricha pulverulenta
- Stolotermes spp. New Zealand wetwood termites
- Torostoma apicale, a native wood-boring weevil
- Treptoplatypus caviceps, pinhole borer
- Two-toothed longhorn, Ambeodontus tristis
- Weevil, native wood boring, Torostoma apicale
- Xyleborinus saxesenii, a keyhole ambrosia beetle
- Xylosandrus crassiusculus, granulate ambrosia beetle
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Farm Forestry - Headlines
- Industry Monitors Log Market Movements
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Industry adjustment to the new log pricing levels is continuing to take place. As with all adjustments this affects businesses and individuals in very different ways depending on their individual…
- Foresters welcome risk based Standards for freshwater management
Thursday, September 05, 2019
Forest Owners Association President, Peter Weir says Forest Owners and Farm Foresters welcome the opportunity to join the national conversation on freshwater management and he urges members of both associations…
- Report: Small-scale Grower Harvest costs and returns
Saturday, July 27, 2019
A previous survey of small-scale forest owners (SSFO) interests (reported in May 2017 Tree Grower) clearly showed a strong interest for more information around the harvesting and marketing segment of…
- Forest industry says Te Uru Rakau expansion vital for coherent forest development
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Forest industry leaders say the pre-Budget announcement by Forestry Minister Shane Jones of additional regional resources for Te Uru Rākau is potentially of great benefit to regional New Zealand. Farm…
- Emissions Trading announcement is incentive for farmers to plant trees
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Forest owners believe the just announced reform of the Emissions Trading Scheme will encourage farm foresters and hill country pastoral farmers to plant more trees. Farm Forestry Association Chair, Neil…
- PCE Report needs clarity from government
Monday, March 25, 2019
Forest Owners want clarity for what New Zealand plantation forestry is expected to deliver on climate change targets. The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, has just issued a…
- Boosting forest harvesting productivity, safety and skills focus of new programme
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Boosting forest productivity, technology, safety and skills and reducing environmental impacts are at the heart of a new programme announced today. Te Māhi Ngahere I te Ao Hurihuri – Forestry Work…
- Awareness and perceptions of the forest growers commodity levy
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
The New Zealand Forest Owners Association (FOA), the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association (FFA), and the Forest Growers Levy Trust (FGLT) have commissioned research to help them understand the awareness…
- Land Information NZ develops wildling tool
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
A new tool to enable the public to help fight one of New Zealand’s most invasive species has been created by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ). Wilding Watch can be…
- $36 million investment approved to tackle regional erosion
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Te Uru Rākau (Forestry New Zealand) has announced funding of almost $36 million through the Hill Country Erosion Fund (HCEF) to enable much-needed erosion control in the regions. The HCEF…
- Forest Practice Guides launched
Thursday, October 04, 2018
The Forest Owners Association has today launched a series of 28 Forest Practice Guides. The Guides are a joint venture between the forest sector and MPI and were initiated as…
- Scion strategy to 2030: Right tree, right place, right purpose
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Scion publishes its strategy "Strategy to 2030: Right tree, right place, right purpose". Scion strategy to 2030
- Productivity Commission Report heralds massive land conversion to forestry
Monday, September 03, 2018
Forest owners say the Productivity Commission’s call for up to 2.8 million hectares of land to be turned into forests as a carbon sink would require implementing the most ambitious…
- Emissions Trading Scheme revisions timely and necessary for climate change goals
Monday, August 13, 2018
Forest owners are calling the proposed revisions to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) both timely and necessary if New Zealand is to hope to meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets.…
- Trees for steep erosion prone land report released
Monday, August 06, 2018
A report on alternative plantation forest species is now available on the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association website detailing the characteristics of a wide variety of tree species that are…
- One billion trees programme tree list
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Planting the right tree in the right place is important because today’s tree planting decisions can have impacts that last for generations. One of the first decisions you have to…
- NZ Institute of Forestry launches new National Forest Policy
Sunday, July 08, 2018
New Zealand forestry professionals meeting for their annual conference in Nelson today will receive and discuss a new national forest policy. The document “Forest Policy for New Zealand” has been…
- Forest owners vow to deal with forest harvest slash
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Forest Owners say the industry is focused on measures to make sure a repeat of the recent floods transporting harvest debris out of forests and into Tolaga Bay isn’t repeated…
- Protecting our Eucalyptus trees
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
May 2018. Scion are undertaking community pre-consultation on a proposed biological control of the Eucalyptus tortoise beetle. Eucalyptus plantations are a recognisable part of New Zealand’s diversified forestry industry. They provide…
- Forest industry reputation damaged by mobilisation of forest harvest residues
Sunday, May 27, 2018
The successful prosecution of a forest management company by the Marlborough District Council has been endorsed by the Forest Owners Association. Merrill and Ring has been fined $39,000 and ordered…
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