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    • A giant sirex wasp parasite Megarhyssa nortoni on white backing.
    Rights: Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, CC-BY 4.0 Published 23 May 2019 Size: 960 KB Referencing Hub media

    The giant sirex wasp parasite Megarhyssa nortoni was imported to New Zealand and released in the 1960s to control the sirex wood wasp, a pest in pine plantations.

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      Parasitoid wasp life cycle

      Introduced wasps cause all sort of problems for people and native species, but did you know we have native wasps in New Zealand? Rights: Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, CC-BY 4.0 Certonotus ...

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