Painted Apple Moth
| Case Study: | PAM in Auckland's Western suburbs | | Where: | Glendene, Auckland, NZ | | When: | Initially discovered 1999
Aerial spraying Oct 2002 - May 2004 |
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:
- Operations management
- GIS Analyst
- Logistics Management
- Ground surveillance
- Host removal and treatment
- Movement Control
- Media co-ordination
- Aerial spray operations
Action:
Initial
- Ground surveillance and infected host removal and destruction
- HQ established
- GIS / mapping geospatial services
- Host surveying conducted over a wide area of West Auckland
- Movement control restrictions placed on garden waste and host material from the infected area
Ongoing (during programme)
- Project management
- Media and communications management
- Trapping conducted over a wide area of Auckland city
- Sterile moth breeding and release programme
- 40 aerial spray treatments between Oct 2002 and May 2004
- Logistics and supply of BTK spray
- Host removal and disposal
- Infected site monitoring operations and on-going surveillance until programme ended in March 2006
Result:
- Following completion of aerial treatments of the infected area, on-going trap and ground surveys produced negative results
- On March 20, 2006 West Auckland Painted Apple Moth declared eradicated
- Cost $ 62.4 million
- This programme has since been discontinued.
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