Farm Forestry New Zealand
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
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- Pressure mounting across entire forestry supply chain as port build ups highlight issues
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Forestry Industry Contractors Association (FICA) is calling for an all of forestry strategy to deal with the mounting pressure on the entire forestry supply chain, currently being highlighted by build-ups…
- Forest Owners sharing primary sector concerns
Thursday, July 15, 2021
The Forest Owners Association is sympathising with some farmer frustrations over the pace of regulations being imposed on the primary sector. Forest Owners Association President Phil Taylor says the time…
- Forest Owners say production trees are potentially farming’s biggest friend
Tuesday, July 06, 2021
The President of the Forest Owners Association has told delegates to the Primary Industries Summit in Christchurch that forestry offers many opportunities for farmers. He said trees versus food production…
- Commission’s ETS change risks forest planting targets
Tuesday, June 08, 2021
The forest industry says the Climate Change Commission is risking forest planting rates by stating that the current Emissions Trading Scheme ‘will incentivise more production forestry than needed.’ The final…
- Forest owners say forests are productive and vital in meeting climate change goals
Monday, May 17, 2021
The Forest Owners Association says the Federated Farmers’ call for the government to restrict forest planting ranks as an unnecessary intrusion on the right of farmers to plant trees on…
- Te Uru Rakau – NZ Forest Service explores biofuels as a major opportunity for New Zealand
Monday, May 10, 2021
Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service is laying the foundations for a new biofuels industry, to turn forestry waste into a potential billion-dollar industry, and working on a…
- KTM Supreme Winner at Forestry Awards
Monday, May 10, 2021
The best of best in the region’s forestry industry were toasted at a sell-out Southern North Island Wood Council Training Awards dinner last night. The supreme winner, found from the…
- Greater role for a public forestry service
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Media Statement from Hon Stuart Nash Minister of Forestry A greater role for a public forestry service has been outlined by the Forestry Minister, to drive the focus on regional…
- Expansion of Forest Service role a vital move
Thursday, April 29, 2021
The Forest Owners Association says the just announced creation of Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service heralds the potential to fix vital bottlenecks in the initial stages of the forest industry…
- Plantation forestry ranks best for land use
Thursday, April 15, 2021
The just released Ministry for the Environment’s latest environmental report scores exotic forestry highly for its low impact on soils. The MfE report identified exotic forests as the land use by far…
- The NZIF Foundation Awards & Scholarship Applications Now Open
Thursday, April 15, 2021
The NZIF Foundation is offering the following awards in 2021: Future Forest Scholarship for post graduate research of up to $10,000 Up to two scholarships available Otago Southland Award One or…
- Foresters celebrate scooping primary industry awards
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
The Forest Owners Association says taking out three of the four category prizes in the Primary Industries’ Good Employer Awards this week is a sign the forest sector has come…
- Log supply not the cause of timber shortage
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Forest organisations have joined to reject statements that the current shortage of framing timber is caused by foresters selling logs to China and not leaving enough timber to be processed…
- Farm Foresters fired up to play a role in land use issues.
Monday, March 29, 2021
Farm foresters are now excited and fully informed to play a role in helping role solve NZ land use issues says the incoming association president, Graham West. They have just…
- 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…
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