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Coptotermes acinaciformis, Australian subterranean termites

  • Australian subterranean termites, update 2014
    MPI Biosecurity Response Update, 6 August 2014. Coptotermes acinaciformis is a highly destructive termite that attacks both living trees and timber in service. Five incursions of this termite have been…
  • Surveillance programme for subterranean termites
    From SURVEILLANCE 39 (1) 2012. New Zealand has three species of native termites. They do not form large colonies and are generally nondestructive. As a consequence, New Zealand wooden buildings are not built…
  • Australian subterranean termites in New Zealand
    From Forest Health News 227, July 2012. Recently the Ministry for Primary Industries announced that an incursion of Australian subterranean termites (Coptotermes acinaciformis) has been eradicated from a property in…
  • Australian subterranean termites response, Pukekohe 2010
    From Report to Forest Biosecurity Committee meeting 8 September 2011. This termite species (Coptotermes acinaciformis) was first detected in a house and landscaping timber (imported railway sleepers) at a rural residential…
  • Subterranean termites - Nelson and Auckland 2008
    From MAF BNZ Report to Forest Biosecurity Consultative Committee, July 31 2008. A colony of Australian subterranean termites, Coptotermes acinaciformis, was detected from Richmond, Nelson in January 2006 and at…
  • Australian termites in New Zealand
    From Biosecurity Issue 82, March 2008. Australian termites pose a potentially significant biosecurity risk for New Zealand. Although current import health standards for timber mitigate the risk of new introductions,…
  • Subterranean Termites Auckland 2007
    The presence of exotic subterranean termites, Coptotermes acinaciformis , was confirmed at a property in South Rodney (Auckland) on 10 January 2007.  An initial inspection detected termite activity within a…
  • Subterranean termites found in Nelson
    From Biosecurity 67, May 2006. A colony of Australian subterranean termites, Coptotermes acinaciformis, was recently reported from a property in Richmond, Nelson. The species is the same one that was…
  • Australian Subterranean termites
    From Forest Health News 159, February 2006. With the recent discovery of Australian subterranean termites (Coptotermes acinaciformis) in the South Island at Richmond, Nelson, perhaps it is timely to review the history…
  • Australian subterranean termites eradicated
    from Biosecurity 60, June 2005. Biosecurity New Zealand has welcomed the successful eradication of the Australian subterranean termite (Coptotermes acinaciformis) from sites at Otorohanga, Morrinsville and Matamata. Subterranean termites are…
  • Otorohanga on track for termite all-clear
    From Biosecurity Issue 42, March 2003. An Otorohanga suburb dubbed ‘Termite Hill’ due to persistent problems with the Australian subterranean termite (Coptotermes acinaciformis) has passed its third year without any…
  • Subterranean termites: elimination on target
    From Biosecurity Issue 32, December 2001. No Australian subterranean termites were found in the latest survey of residential properties in Otorohanga. Conducted by representatives of MAF, VIGIL and the Australian…
  • Subterranean termites – the hidden enemy
    From Biosecurity Issue 22 , September 2000. Australian subterranean termites (Coptotermes acinaciformis) probably hitchhiked into the country unnoticed several decades ago, within Australian telephone poles, railway sleepers and wooden packaging.…
  • Subterranean termites
    From Forest Health News No. 92, December 1999. On 10 November the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) began an eradication programme of Australian subterranean termites (Coptotermes acinaciformis) from a…
  • Australian termite activity
    From Forest Health News 77, August 1998. After having a low profile for some years, Australian subterranean termites are back on the agenda. The recent discovery of colonies of Coptotermes…

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