New Zealand hotel cleaners praised after discovering pest
James Trevelyan, the managing director of Trevelyan's Pack & Cool Ltd, and a long-time kiwifruit grower in Te Puke, said the cleaners found the brown marmorated stink bug in separate discoveries in Christchurch, Whitianga and New Plymouth earlier this year.
Investigations by the Ministry for Primary Industries concluded the bugs hitch-hiked here in luggage from predominately American visitors.
"Those housekeepers are the unsung heroes of New Zealand horticulture," Trevelyan said.
"If this bug comes in it'll decimate home gardens and damage a number of valuable export crops like kiwifruit, apples, grapes, citrus and stone fruit. They're shockers."
source: nzherald.co.nz
