The giant sirex wasp parasite Megarhyssa nortoni was imported to New Zealand and released in the 1960s to control the sirex wood wasp, a pest in pine plantations.
Introduced wasps cause all sort of problems for people and native species, but did you know we have native wasps ...
New Zealand has a very small number of poisonous and venomous animals. The grey side-gilled sea slug (Pleurobranchaea maculata) is ...
Introduced wasps have become so abundant in many native forests, especially over summer months, that they now pose a major ...
A team of fossil hunters has discovered that one of the largest known dinosaurs, a titanosaurid, almost certainly roamed New ...
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