Shaun Wilkinson

Citizen Science and Environmental DNA Reveals Site of an Invasive Paropsisterna beata (Newman) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Population in New Zealand

More than a decade after being declared eradicated, a population of the Australian blessed leaf beetle Paropsisterna beata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) was located in New Zealand in 2026. The pest has been found and photographed three times by citizen scientists approximately 25 k...