Location and site
Dates of application
Insecticide used
Application method
Purpose
(between information
request and end of
Great Barrier island:
April
Xstinguish (active ingredient – Fipronil)
Hand laying of bait in dispenser pottles Argentine ant control
Thomas Road - 9ha site
or cardboard tubes
Okupu - 2ha site
Sugarloaf - 2ha site
Kawau Island:
March
Depending on the location of the nest, either Biffant (active Spot application to ant nests with
Argentine ant control
Vivian Bay catchment -16ha
ingredient - Bifenthrin) or KAS sand granules (active
Biffant or hand sow of KAS
Vivian Bay - 3ha cliff site
March
Xstinguish (active ingredient – Fipronil)
Hand laying of bait in dispensing
Argentine ant control
cardboard tubes
Regional Parks, including
Autumn but dependant Depending on the location of the wasp population, either
Spot application to located wasp nests Wasp control
Hunua Ranges and Waitakere on need
Dust 2 Dust or Permex (active ingredient - permethrin)
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