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Products for Controlling Wasps by Key Industries

Presentation by Andre Visser

Email: sales@keyindustries.co.nz

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Wasps – the Issues at Hand

Social issues

  • Disruption to recreational activities, safety outdoors –

Environmental issues

  • Inability for birds to feed on Honey Dew has resulted a major impact of wasps, 1.4 and 8.1 kg of invertebrates per hectare each season -the identifiable prey items, about 27% were spiders, 23% caterpillars, 18% ants and bees, 16% flies, and 16% other.

Economic issues

  • Cost economy more than $130 million dollars a year, with the biggest economic impacts on farming, beekeeping, horticulture and forestry workers.
  • More than $60 million a year in costs to pastoral farming from wasps disrupting bee pollination activities, reducing the amount of clover in pastures and increasing fertiliser costs.
  • Almost $9 million a year cost to beekeepers from wasps attacking honey bees, robbing their honey and destroying hives.
  • Wasp-related traffic accidents estimated to cost $1.4 million a year.
  • Over $1 million each year spent on health costs from wasp stings.
  • On top of the direct costs, almost $60 million a year is lost in unrealised honey production from beech forest honeydew which is currently being monopolised by wasps.

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