Offshore risks
Returning from overseas or visiting New Zealand? Everyone in the kiwifruit industry, or coming to New Zealand to work on an orchard, has a responsibility to manage biosecurity risks when travelling. To assist, KVH has developed a best practice poster to help reduce biosecurity risk after visiting or working on an offshore orchard or farm; and to explain what people can expect at border control when arriving in New Zealand.
A summary of potential biosecurity threats to the kiwifruit industry can be found in the documents below:
Click on the fact sheets below to learn more about pests and diseases of specific concern to the kiwifruit industry that could impact our ability to produce or market kiwifruit:
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Halyomorpha halys)
- Ceratocystis wilt
- Emaravirus actinidiae
- Cherry Leaf Roll Virus (Genus Nepovirus)
- Esca disease (Formitiporia mediterranea)
- Fruit flies
- Glassy Winged Sharpshooter (Homolodisca vitripennis)
- Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Ceratitis capitata)
- Oriental Fruit Fly (Bactrocera dorsalis)
- Painted Apple Moth (Teia anartoides)
- Pelargonium Zonate Spot Virus (Genus Anulavirus)
- Phytophthora drechsleri
- Psa - non New Zealand strains (Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae)
- Planthopper (Metcalfa pruinosa)
- Queensland Fruit Fly (Bactrocera tryoni)
- Spongy moth (Lymantria dispar asiatica)
- Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula)
- Spotted Wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii)
- Summer Canker (Pectobacterium carotovorum)
- Thrips (Scirtothrips dorsalis)
- Verticillium Wilt (Verticillium nonalfalfae)
- Yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina)
- Yellow Spotted Stink Bug (Erthesina fullo)
