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
Farm Forestry - Headlines
- Wairoa foresters forced to subsidise local meatworks
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Foresters in the Wairoa District are appalled that a part of their recent rate increase will go to propping up the local meatworks. Wairoa District Council disclosed at a meeting…
- Foresters say pines to be relied on to meet climate targets
Monday, February 01, 2021
The Forest Owners Association says the Climate Change Commission has endorsed the crucial role exotic forestry will carry out in meeting New Zealand’s net greenhouse gas emission targets in 2030…
- Forest Growers Levy rate to increase for the first time in seven years
Thursday, December 03, 2020
Directors of the Forest Growers Levy Trust have raised the rate on Harvested Wood Materials, for the first time since the levy was introduced by a forest grower referendum in…
- Forest Growers Levy Board increases Levy to 33 cents per tonne
Thursday, November 26, 2020
The Board of the Forest Growers Levy Trust has increased the Levy rate to 33 cents per tonne of harvested wood materials, the first increase in the Levy rate since…
- Minister's Roots In Forestry
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
The Minister of Forestry, Stuart Nash when speaking at the annual Farm Forestry Awards last Tuesday, announced he had started his career in farm forestry and as a student pruned trees…
- Forest industry says main political parties abandon forest industry
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Forest industry says main political parties abandon forest industry at economic and environmental cost The Labour and National parties’ policies on forestry, leading into the election, are disappointing to forest…
- Taxpayers to pick up carbon cost if production forests are restricted
Friday, September 18, 2020
The Forest Owners Association says taxpayers are likely to have to pay billions of dollars for imported carbon credits, if planting production forests is to be restricted with the idea…
- Forest industry says government wood preference policy good for economy and environment
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Forest owners say the government’s announcement of a policy to give preference to low greenhouse gas emission materials in government construction will be good for both the environment and for…
- Election forestry policy unnecessary
Tuesday, July 07, 2020
Right now, we are in a Covid-19 recovery phase and an election year. Farmers feel good about keeping the economy going, but are challenged by climate change, freshwater regulations and…
- New construction policy will deliver more timber use
Monday, July 06, 2020
The Forest Owners Association says the MBIE announcement of ‘Building for Climate Change’ will mean more timber is used in New Zealand construction. FOA President Phil Taylor says he’s been…
- Feds telling their members they can’t sell land for forestry
Sunday, July 05, 2020
The Forest Owners Association is startled that the new Federated Farmers Meat and Wool Chair is asking the government to restrict the right of farmer members to plant trees or…
- New business agreement with ForestX
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
NZFFA has negotiated a Referral and Collaboration Agreement with ForestX NZ Ltd, who provide transaction support for the sales of forests, land and standing timber. The seller pays a listing…
- Promised forest limit trashes zero carbon goals by at least 30,000 hectares a year
Monday, June 22, 2020
The Forest Owners Association says New Zealand’s carbon zero goal is seriously in doubt after a statement by the Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor, that the government would ‘need to…
- Better options than Log Bill
Thursday, June 04, 2020
The Forest Owners Association says more exports of processed timber products from New Zealand looks a good prospect on paper, but Shane Jones’ current Log Bill is not going to…
- Farm Foresters recommend action in Wood Sector
Friday, May 22, 2020
In conjunction with other sector associations, the NZ Farm Forestry Association has made five important post Covid-19 recommendations to the Ministers of Forestry and Agriculture for specific actions in the…
- Forest Owners brace for avalanche of clip-boards in government measure
Friday, May 15, 2020
The Forest Owners Association says the industry anticipates an unacceptable and pointless bureaucratic cost to all parts of the forest industry, if the Forests (Regulation of Log Traders and Forestry…
- Forest Owners pledge support in Budget measures to assist economic recovery
Thursday, May 14, 2020
The Forest Owners Association says it’s keen to work with government and with the rest of the primary industries to implement government investment aimed at reviving the economy after the…
- Forest Growers Levy Trust commits to support industry
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
The New Zealand Forest Growers Levy Trust is anticipating borrowing and using reserves to maintain as much of its yearly work programme as possible. The Trust has decided today (29…
- Forest Owners urge caution about back to work this week
Sunday, April 26, 2020
The Forest Owners Association President Phil Taylor is cautioning foresters about jumping the gun getting back to work on Tuesday after the lockdown, and that health and safety on the…
- Hunters must respect the rules
Friday, April 24, 2020
Game Animal Council General Manager Tim Gale says it is really important that hunters respect the rules around hunting in plantation forests. “While hunters play an important role in managing…
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