Painted Apple Moth

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Biosecurity Threat:

• Potential to severely defoliate fruit trees, natives and introduced trees
• Serious threat to gardens, crops, forests and native bush
• If widely established potential economic impact between $58 - $356 million over 20 years

Field Staff:

• GIS Analyst
• Logistics Management
• Movement Control

Action:

• Project management
• GIS / mapping geospatial services
• Surveying
• Movement control
• Trapping
• 40 aerial spray treatments between Oct 2002 and May 2004
• Logistic and supply of BTK spray
• Host removal
• Infected site monitoring operations surveillance

Result:

• March 20, 2006 West Auckland Painted Apple Moth declared eradicated
• Cost $ 62.4 million