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Fall webworm, Hyphantria cunea

21 March 2006
The Mt Wellington fall webworm moth population has been declared eradicated, Biosecurity Minister Jim Anderton announced today.

  • Fall Webworm in New Zealand
    From Forest Health News 127, March 2003. Caterpillars provisionally identified as belonging to the fall webworm ( Hyphantria cunea) were found at an Aranui Street property, Mount Wellington, Auckland, as a result…
     
  • Fall webworm response update
    From From Biosecurity 60, June 2005. Following the detection of a nest of fall webworm (FWW) larvae in Mount Wellington, Auckland, in March 2003, a surveillance trapping programme was established.…
     
  • Fall Webworm (Hyphantria cunea)
    From Biosecurity 43, May 2003. An isolated find of a communal ‘web’ containing about 15 fall webworm caterpillars was made in the Auckland suburb of Mt Wellington after a public…
     

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