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- Category: News
- Our research helps detect stink bug
- Plant Biosecurity Research Initiative (PBRI) Symposium May 2026
- Introductory session on the Biosecurity System Action Plan
- Want to know more about the hornet response?
- On the look out for yellow-legged hornets in Auckland
- August is biosecurity awareness month
- B3 conference 15-16 July 2025
- Support B3’s early career researcher Luna Hasna – vote for her B3 project’s video
- B3 Annual Report 2023-24
- Change of leadership and structure in B3
- Former B3 Director receives lifetime achievement honours
- B3 test detecting exotic plant diseases
- Programme for Science Partnership Forum
- New biosecurity research protects border and empowers industry and communities
- Māori tourism operators step-up for biosecurity
- New Independent Chair for B3
- Global Change and New Zealand Biosecurity Report
- Programme for B3 Conference Friday May 5
- B3 seeks Collaboration Council chair
- New Director for B3
- BMSB 3D-printed to raise awareness
- Learn about our mahi
- B3 Summer Students
- Forum brings together biosecurity community
- B3 win Biosecurity NZ Science Award 2022
- Fall armyworm podcast
- Enhancing international research co-ordination
- B3 in Biosecurity Award finals
- NZ Plant Protection Society’s 75th Birthday
- Substantial new biosecurity science investment
- B3 Director stepping down in October
- International Congress on Biological Invasions (ICBI2023) and B3 conference
- International research collaboration
- B3 steps up research to face fall armyworm
- Repatriation of ngā tupu taketake ō Tāne
- Researcher made Royal Society Fellow
- MOU between the UC and B3
- Research key to new protection against BMSB
- Last year’s successes and impacts
- Outputs from BMSB Symposium
- Starting 2022 with congratulations
- Science partnership with MPI
- New Summer Students
- Biocontrol research in the spotlight
- Xylella project highlighted
- 2022 investment round
- Science Partnership Forum
- B3 researchers win awards
- $1.6 million for new projects
- B3 project to improve Xylella readiness
- New Cultural Biosecurity Ambassador roopū
- Register for the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Symposium
- Fostering future plant biosecurity community
- Students learn to be biosecurity guardians
- B3 conference brings biosecurity community together
- OVER 70 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE FAREWELLED FROM B3 IN LATE 2020
- B3 Conference 2021 Registration Open
- B3 Māori Research Leader Appointed
- Three Summer Students Assisting With B3 Research Projects
- University of Canterbury Engineering Students Investigate Novel Way to Protect Our Borders From Biosecurity Threats
- B3 Science Partnership Forum a Success
- Biosecurity Trail at Auckland Botanic Gardens a Finalist at the Biosecurity Awards
- Building up Understanding of Xylella fastidiosa
- New Zealand Scientists Contribute to New Paper on Science Diplomacy for Plant Health
- New Zealand scientists share knowledge with their global peers
- New Projects Add to Research Line-up for the Better Border Biosecurity (B3) Science Collaboration
- B3 Virtual Research Update Meetings a Success
- Trans-Tasman Plant Border Biosecurity Research Partners Looks to Strengthen Their Collaboration
- Facing Covid -19 and future pandemics. What can we learn from New Zealand’s biosecurity system?
- Holden Hohaia and Melanie Mark-Shadbolt appointed to the B3 Collaboration Council
- B3 under COVID-19 A message to our community April 2020
- International Year of Plant Health Underway in New Zealand
- Strategy refresh for B3 underway
- First B3 Co-Investment Committee Meeting a Success
- B3 Awards and Recognition
- Video shows how live traps can be used for adult brown marmorated stink bugs
- European Connections
- Enemy #1 – Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- Understanding Rusts, fungal invaders of Aotearoa
- New Zealanders/B3 at the PBRI Plant Biosecurity Symposium
- Measuring Biosecurity excellence in port communities
- Stinkbugs. Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
- Biosecurity trail empowers visitors to protect New Zealand flora
- Learning local: Tauranga biosecurity unit turns 5 year olds into scientists
- B3 part of the fight against devastating disease begins
- Some of the students working on B3 projects over the 2018-19 summer
- More fame for Laura Nixon’s BMSB work
- Australia and NZ join forces on plant biosecurity research
- Scientists hone in on where pests come from
- Biosecurity awareness in port communities
- Recent recognition of B3 science
- BMSB: an imminent threat to Australia and New Zealand workshop
- The best B3 conference yet
- Opinion: Finding fruit flies doesn’t mean the system is broken
- Scientists discuss sex-less insects
- Contribution of b3 researchers recognised by the science community.
- B3 refreshes its scientific programme
- Attempts to stop BMSB establishing in NZ recognised in the USA
- NZ US invasive species workshop sets a bright future for collaborative research
- Survival of soil organisms a wake-up call for bio-security
- B3 congratulates recent New Zealand biosecurity award winners
- Competition focuses male wasp’s mating mind
- Throwing ants off the scent
- New trans-tasman partnership takes the fight to myrtle rust
- New Zealand scientists meet to mitigate the impact of myrtle rust
- MYRTLE RUST INCURSION ON RAOUL ISLAND REINFORCES THE NEED FOR PREPAREDNESS AND VIGILANCE
- THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF CHINA/NEW ZEALAND COLLABORATIONS IN BIOSECURITY
- B3 SCIENCE SUPPORTS WORLD FIRST PEST ERADICATION
- BMSB-CURRENT OR PLANNED RESEARCH TO PREVENT ESTABLISHMENT AND REDUCE IMPACT IN NEW ZEALAND
- TRIALLING NEW TARO TREATMENT FOR BETTER BORDER BIOSECURITY
- FUTURE-PROOFING NEW ZEALAND’S BORDER BIOSECURITY SYSTEM – THE ROLE OF BIOSECURITY 2025
- B3 RESEARCH SUPPORTS MPI TO ADVANCE INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS FOR PREVENTING ‘HITCHHIKER’ PEST MOVEMENTS WITH SEA CONTAINERS
- BMSB SURVEILLANCE: AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
- UNIQUE PRE-EMPTIVE BIOCONTROL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR A HIGH RISK ORGANISM
- REVIEW ARTICLES HIGHLIGHT INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE OF B3 RESEARCH
- B3 CONFERENCE 2016 FOCUSES ON THE FUTURE
- B3 RESEARCH CONTRIBUTES TO SUCCESSFUL PEST ERADICATIONS
- VALUABLE CONNECTIONS MADE WITH US RESEARCHERS THROUGH THE MBIE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS FUND
- A NEW SCION-LED MBIE PROGRAMME
- KEEPING THE BROWN MARMORATED STINK BUG OUT OF NEW ZEALAND
- KEEPING OUR UNIQUE FAUNA SAFE FROM HARM
- WHERE ARE WE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST PHYTOPHTHORA?
- NEW ZEALAND CONTRIBUTES TO FRUIT FLY RESEARCH
- A NEW ZEALAND LINK TO THE CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW
- PROTECTION FROM A STINKY PROBLEM
- STUDENT PREPARING FOR TREE RUST
- NEW ZEALAND ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE AWARDS
- NEW ZEALAND ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE AWARDS
- THE INAUGURAL B3 CONFERENCE 2014
- BUTTERFLY ERADICATION PROGRAM SHOWS ENCOURAGING SIGNS OF PROGRESS
- VISITING LUMINARY GIVES EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE ON BIOSECURITY RISK ASSESSMENT
- LANDCARE RESEARCH JOINS B3 COLLABORATION
- B3 SYMPOSIUM LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL PLANT SENTINEL NETWORK
- DEVELOPING TESTING REGIMES FOR THE IMPORTATION OF NEW MICROBIAL BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS
- B3 COLLABORATES WITH OpERA ON ECO INVERTEBASE FOR BIOSAFETY RESEARCH
- Biogeochemical markers help determine point of origin for insect pest incursions
- ADVANCES IN AERIAL SPRAYING CONTRIBUTE TO ERADICATION OF INSECT PESTS
- INTERNATIONAL PLANT SENTINEL NETWORK HELPS IDENTIFY POTENTIAL INVASIVE PESTS
- B3 RESEARCHERS PRESENT AT 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ENTOMOLOGY
- TRAP CAMERAS COULD HELP EARLY PEST DETECTION
- PROJECT QUANTIFIES ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF PHYTOSANITARY POLICY
- PAVING THE WAY FOR BETTER COLLABORATION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND PLANTS BIOSECURITY: A RESEARCH CONSUMER’S PERSPECTIVE ON PARTNERSHIP WITH RESEARCH.
- USING DIAGNOSTIC MARKERS FOR THE EARLY DETECTION OF CROP DISEASES
- HOW CAN WE USE AND MANAGE OUR RESOURCES – BIOSECURITY
- EUROPEAN UNION BIOSECURITY EXPERT SHARES LESSONS LEARNED WITH NEW ZEALAND SCIENTISTS
- UNDERSTANDING THE BIOSECURITY HAZARDS POSED BY SOIL ON FOOTWEAR
- NEW TEST HELPS MAF DETERMINE PEST ORGANISM VIABILITY AT THE BORDER
- TECHNIQUE FOR RAPID ASSESSMENT OF HOST ACCEPTANCE BY SAP-SUCKING INSECT INVADERS
- Molecular research helps scientists combat kiwifruit disease
- NEW TECHNIQUE USES SEX AS A WEAPON TO ERADICATE INSECT PESTS
- DNA Barcoding Helps Protect New Zealand Borders
- Interaction between science and policy: an essential driver for integrity and performance in New Zealand’s environment and economy
- BCANZ website provides valuable tool for managing introduced organisms
- Reflections on the process of Māori consultation as part an application to release a biological control agent
- Category: Events
- Category: Research
Templates
Projects
- Aotearoa New Zealand Xylella fastidiosa Research
- Enhancing Biosecurity Through Indigenous Collaborations
- Modern technologies to assess environmental risk of introduced weed biocontrol agents
- Integrating novel multi-taxa lures with multisensory traps for surveillance of high-risk pests
- Crossing Bridges – Operationalising Risk Analysis Tools
- Coordinated biosecurity surveillance for NZ’s primary industries
- Tackling the complacent, the resistant, and the disengaged: fostering stronger biosecurity engagement and social licence to manage biosecurity risks
- Could an alternative insect host be used in NZ to rear the most promising biocontrol agent for the brown marmorated stink bug?
- Improving Māori/Indigenous engagement within B3 programs
- How big is the eDNA operability gap?
- The impact of heatwaves on surveillance programmes for high-risk pests in New Zealand
- Bacterial metabolites as growth promoting agents to enhance detection of plant diseases
- AI technology to improve biosecurity at seaports in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Automated sensing technologies to detect concealed invertebrates
- Tackling the threat of invasive Ceratocystis species to Aotearoa New Zealand
- Building bridges to impact from risk analysis research
- Prioritising social research for border biosecurity
- De-risking the tissue culture import pathway
- Risks from pathogens, pests and weeds in a changing climate
- Kaitiakitanga and mātauranga Māori as a response to biosecurity threats to taonga plant species, native ecosystems and communities.
- eDNA for terrestrial biosecurity monitoring
- Expanding our eradication toolbox in NZ: Is biocontrol a feasible tool to incorporate in a response?
- Beyond soil baiting: toward application of an eRNA diagnostic tool for Phytophthora
- Metatranscriptomics informing the relevance of pathogen disease biomarkers in plants
- Using images and deep learning for the identification of high-risk insect species
- The risk of diapausing pest insects on pathways to NZ
- Accelerated ageing of plants to shorten the post-entry quarantine testing period
- De-risking the plant tissue culture pathway
- Rapid screening model for optimising commodity treatments
- Further development of the Integrated Biosecurity Risk Assessment Model (IBRAM) for pathogens
- Predicting the spillover of pests and pathogens into natural ecosystems
- New risk assessment and detection tools for cereal and grass pathogens on the seed import pathway
- He Waka Hourua: Matāuranga and Western science navigate a safe course for future biocontrol
- Testing the toolbox - reducing uncertainty around non-target impacts
- Weaving together the complex web of biosecurity social networks
- Remote sensing to support surveillance, response and eradication
- Improving UAV effectiveness for spot application of Btk during incursion responses
- Deployable point-of-use pathogen bioelectric sensor
- The potential of mass spectral fingerprinting for solving tricky biosecurity issues
- Integrated or not? Is this badnavirus viable and what is the risk?
- Automatic detection of contaminants on shipping container exteriors
- Unappreciated border biosecurity risks related to herbicide-resistant biotypes in imported seeds
- Māori and Pasifika indigenous collaboration to identify pre-border biosecurity threats
- Pest risk evaluation framework – extended to arable, horticulture and forestry industries
- Assessing the risk of rapid ōhi'a death to New Zealand and the South Pacific
- Pre-emptive biocontrol risk assessment for high-risk biosecurity threats in New Zealand
- B3 Project Proposal Planning Documents
- Rapid response to biosecurity threats in nurseries
- New aerodynamic design principles for effective insect traps
- Global change and NZ biosecurity: risks and economics of future climates and trade patterns
- Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) and its vectors in the native estate
- Improving risk prediction & reducing uncertainty pre-release for classical biocontrol agents
- Understanding the direct and indirect environmental impacts of biocontrol agent introductions to inform future decisions
- Sentinel plants to forecast & future proof NZ plant systems against pests & diseases
- Integrated biosecurity risk assessment models for imports (Tilletia, BMSB, QFF)
- Supporting pest risk assessments in natural ecosystems
- Predicting the risks and impacts of Xylella fastidiosa using sentinel plant network
- Biosecurity over the horizon: identifying invasive agricultural pests in China
- Risk reduction & quarantine treatments off-shore
- Novel sensor approaches to sniff out biosecurity threats (BMSB, QFF)
- Tourism, biosecurity and pathways into NZ
- Optimising biosecurity investment and effort across all invasion phases
- Network modelling of biosecurity risk associated with arable seed imports
- Point of use plant pathogen bioelectric sensor (PSA, Xylella)
- Using molecular systematics to enhance diagnostics and predict biosecurity risk
- eRNA as a molecular diagnostic tool targeting viable Phytophthora spp. and other oomycetes for biomonitoring in plant production nurseries
- Alternative Strategies for determination of biosecurity risk using high throughput sequencing (enterobacteriaceae & Xylella)
- Confidence in stable isotopes to verify a high risk pest incursion as foreign or NZ established
- Diagnosis of irradiated insects and fruit
- Improving the attractiveness of cuelure for better detection and eradication of invasive fruit flies
- eDNA detection of invasive insects
- Socially-acceptable eradication tools underpinned by modelling for eradication (BMSB, QFF, Codling moth, SWD)
- Biosecurity excellence in port communities
- Improved surveillance tools for key biosecurity targets (fruit flies, Gypsy moth)