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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Solanum mauritianum. By pond. A few adults and a cluster of young nymphs observed on the undersides of leaves. Identification: Gargaphia decoris Drake, 1931. Photos: (1), (3) Adult female; (2), (4) Adult male.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Solanum mauritianum. By pond. A few adults and a cluster of young nymphs observed on the undersides of leaves. Identification: Gargaphia decoris Drake, 1931. Photos: (1), (3) Adult female; (2), (4) Adult male.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Solanum mauritianum. By pond. A few adults and a cluster of young nymphs observed on the undersides of leaves. Identification: Gargaphia decoris Drake, 1931. Photos: (1), (3) Adult female; (2), (4) Adult male.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Solanum mauritianum. By pond. A few adults and a cluster of young nymphs observed on the undersides of leaves. Identification: Gargaphia decoris Drake, 1931. Photos: (1), (3) Adult female; (2), (4) Adult male.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Solanum mauritianum. By pond. One of eleven individuals (all adults) observed on one leaf. The species is being reared in the grounds of the Landcare Research building (on the Tamaki Campus) as a biological control agent for Solanum mauritianum. Identification: Gargaphia decoris Drake, 1931. Male.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Solanum mauritianum. By pond. One of eleven individuals (all adults) observed on one leaf. The species is being reared in the grounds of the Landcare Research building (on the Tamaki Campus) as a biological control agent for Solanum mauritianum. Identification: Gargaphia decoris Drake, 1931. Male.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus, just outside perimeter fence on Merton Road side. Habitat: Solanum mauritianum. Several adults observed. Plant damage very evident. The species is being reared in the grounds of the Landcare Research building (on the Tamaki Campus) as a biological control agent for Solanum mauritianum. Identification: Gargaphia decoris Drake, 1931.
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Adult bugs on woolly nightshade outside the greenhouses of the Tamaki campus of Landcare Research. These bugs were released as a biocontrol agent for this weed, and they have defoliated the plants. Landcare Research entomologist Chris Winks told me that the bugs are proving very good at defoliating the woolly nightshades in the shade, but not so much the robust plants growing out in the open.
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Adult bugs on woolly nightshade outside the greenhouses of the Tamaki campus of Landcare Research. These bugs were released as a biocontrol agent for this weed, and they have defoliated the plants. Landcare Research entomologist Chris Winks told me that the bugs are proving very good at defoliating the woolly nightshades in the shade, but not so much the robust plants growing out in the open.
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Adult bugs on woolly nightshade outside the greenhouses of the Tamaki campus of Landcare Research. These bugs were released as a biocontrol agent for this weed, and they have defoliated the plants. Landcare Research entomologist Chris Winks told me that the bugs are proving very good at defoliating the woolly nightshades in the shade, but not so much the robust plants growing out in the open.
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Occasional woolly nightshade trees in a eucalyptus and black wattle plantation
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Solanum mauritianum. On underside of leaves. Identification: Gargaphia decoris Drake, 1931. Several adults observed, one of them with a cluster of first instars (see first photo).
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Solanum mauritianum. On underside of leaves. Identification: Gargaphia decoris Drake, 1931. Several adults observed, one of them with a cluster of first instars (see first photo).
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Solanum mauritianum. On underside of leaves. Identification: Gargaphia decoris Drake, 1931.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Solanum mauritianum. On underside of leaves. Identification: Gargaphia decoris Drake, 1931.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Solanum mauritianum. On underside of leaves. Identification: Gargaphia decoris Drake, 1931.