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Kōrero: Biosecurity

Infested mousetrap

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Infested mousetrap

This mousetrap, imported from Taiwan in 1989, is infested with beetles. Incursions of exotic insect species could potentially threaten New Zealand’s forestry industry.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1989/2401/8

by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Helen Keyes rāua ko Carl Walrond, Biosecurity – Modern biosecurity, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/19062/infested-mousetrap (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Helen Keyes rāua ko Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.