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Lincoln University ecologists release a batch of ladybirds to help control a sap-sucking insect pest of potatoes Audio

Twice a year, as part of MPI's border surveillance, NIWA checks New Zealand harbours for marine pests Audio

Scientists are starting a project to see if bumblebees can be recruited to pollinate flowers in commercial orchards Audio

Auckland's Ark in the Park is using new ways of monitoring rats in the canopy Audio

The Macquarie Island eradication project to rid the subantarctic island of rats, mice and rabbits is making good progress Audio

Waikato University researchers are using their electric fishing boat to see if they can control perch in a dam at Zealandia Audio

Two Kiwi biologists are working on Gough Island in the South Atlantic studying seabirds and super-sized mice Audio

They are extinct in the UK, but thriving in New Zealand, and efforts are being made to breed them and take them back home. Audio

Auckland Museum insect collection curator John Early is passionate about parasitic wasps. Audio

The Department of Conservation has put in an extensive network of stoat traps to save takahe in their mountain home Audio

Waikato university scientists Carolyn King and Chrissen Gemmill trace the origins and migration of house mice in New Zealand. Audio

DOC's John Sawyer visits Amelia Nurse's garden and suggests what plants could replace the invasive pest plants. Audio

Insect ecologists find that native ants slow the spread of this invasive species. Audio

Dean Williams talks to Landcare research's John Parkes about his 30-year career in pest management. Audio