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Eradication of the Painted Apple Moth from Auckland, New Zealand
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Foreign pest invasion
New Zealand has recently suffered a series of invasions from exotic pests. These invasions include moths that destroy forests. The painted apple moth now poses an extreme threat to the trees of Auckland, and researchers from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, and Clearwater Research and Consulting, New Zealand, aim to extract and identify the scent ("pheromone") which the female painted apple moth uses to attract male moths. The researchers will then develop a synthetic pheromone lure which will be tested at an experimental site in Australia. Development of a successful lure will enable spraying for painted apple moth to take place and hopefully eradicate this pest from the threatened districts of Auckland.
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