Links
- AgResearch's Biosecurity Group
The team working on clover root weevil in the South Island and other biosecurity research for pastoral agriculture.
Pamphlets
- Life cycles of CRW and Microctonus aethiopoides
Information sheet produced by AgResearch detailing the lifecycles of clover root weevil and its natural enemy, the parasitoid Microctonus aethiopoides. - Managing clover in the presence of clover root weevil
Pamphlet produced by the Waikato Clover Management Group for North Island farmers. - Combating clover root weevil
Information collated by Meat and Wool New Zealand in September 2005. - Clover root weevil, the Hawke's Bay experience
Information sheet produced by Mike Slay on the distribution and management of CRW in Hawke's Bay.
Web sites
- AgResearch Limited
Research for New Zealand's pastoral sector. - Dairy Insight
Providing funding for biological control of CRW in the North and South Islands. - Meat & Wool New Zealand
Providing funding for biological control of CRW in the North and South Islands. - Federated Farmers
Providing logistical support for South Island biological control. - NZ Landcare Trust
Providing logistical support for South Island biological control. - The Waikato Clover Management Group
Supported by the NZ Landcare Trust, this group is researching management of CRW. - MAF Biosecurity New Zealand
Information on clover root weevil from Biosecurity New Zealand. - On farm management of the economic and environmental impacts of clover root weevil
Details of a MAF Sustainable Farming Fund project, currently in progress. - Better Border Biosecurity (B3)
Large cooperative research programme working on protecting NZ's borders from overseas pests. Generic weevil traps being developed within this programme first detected CRW in the South Island.
