This pest plant is a prickly potential spreader that we hope to keep out of Tasman. Gunnera tinctoria – otherwise known as Chilean Rhubarb – looks like a large rhubarb plant with spikes on the leaves and has historically been planted around pond edges as an ornamental plant.
Have you seen this pest plant? For the health of our crops, we hope not. Velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti) is an Exclusion Pest in the Tasman Nelson Regional Pest Management Plan.
The Indian Myna bird is classified as one of 12 Exclusion pests under the Tasman-Nelson Regional Pest Management Plan, and while not yet established in our region, they pose a real risk should they arrive.
With warm and windy weather a constant during summer, it’s a hard enough task to maintain perfect pastures without the threat of other pests causing unwanted damage.
While owners of maritime vessels long to have their hulls in contact with a piece of the Mediterranean, there’s a pest in our waters that could make this a reality for all the wrong reasons.
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We're asking everyone to keep their eyes peeled for an unwelcome flying visitor in the top of the south – the Rook – after a recent sighting of one in Stoke.
We’ve been starting to hear more and more about pesty plant species popping up on properties affected by the severe flood events earlier this year. Floods are like a magic carpet for weed seeds, spreading them far and wide, and providing a nutrient-rich medium for them to germinate in.
This pest to ponder – and hopefully remove – is the Madeira vine, AKA the mignonette vine. Madeira vine (Anredera cordifolia) is an attractive, hairless, woody climbing vine, with fleshy, succulent heart-shaped leaves, arranged alternately on the stem.
Climbing spindleberry (Celastrus orbiculatus), also known as oriental bittersweet, is a vigorous climbing vine. It was originally introduced to New Zealand for its golden autumn foliage and attractive winter berries, but has since become an invasive pest.
Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) was once a popular garden plant, but its weedy nature now means it is banned from sale or propagation in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Here in Tasman, it is an Eradication species under the Tasman Nelson Regional Pest Management Plan.
Here’s a quick public service announcement to be aware of a rampant fruity friend – and it may just protect our horticulture crops from another kind of PSA – Pseudomonas syringae pv. Actinidiae, or Kiwifruit Vine Canker.
