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A key step to the successful control of a pest causing damage of yield-limiting proportions to any horticultural crop is to, first, identify the pest correctly. Our key to pests provides a pictorial guide to many of the common insect pests found in New Zealand horticultural crops.
Also insects, but regarded as beneficial due to their habits of feeding on or fatally infecting pest insects, our key to beneficial insects will also help growers correctly identify some of the valuable insect species that offer a level of biological control in our orchards and vineyards.
Please note, these keys are only guides and should not be regarded as a substitute for professional advice or scientific identification methods.
If you have a pest or disease that you are unable to classify correctly, you could either take a sample to your local Fruitfed Supplies store to see if one of our staff can assist you, or refer to our testing services page for more information regarding professional scientific identification services.
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