Home / The CountryCoast & Country News13 Aug, 2026 06:30 PM4 mins to readThe black pine beetle (Hylastes ater).The black pine beetle (Hylastes ater).Bark and ambrosia beetles are acting as tiny taxis for fungi across New Zealand, giving researchers valuable clues about how these organisms travel through forests and crops. To understand whether plant disease-causing fungi are being moved this way, scientists at Bioeconomy Science Institute Maiangi Taiao are identifying the species carried on AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
Beetle-borne fungi pose biosecurity risk to forests and orchards
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