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    • Close up of a Heather beetle on top of a plant.
    Rights: Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, CC-BY 4.0 Published 18 December 2018 Size: 130 KB Referencing Hub media

    Heather beetles were imported from the UK and introduced in Tongariro National Park in 1996 to help control heather, a pest plant that had been brought to New Zealand in 1912.

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