About

Smartbug NZ provides specialist IPM services and biological products to New Zealand’s horticultural industries. IPM (Integrated pest management) is a strategic approach to pest management that draws on many tools to gain control over pest and disease populations. Our programs have helped growers reduce their reliance on a pure-chemistry approach and add many more tools and tactics to their arsenal.

Many horticultural pests have developed resistance to modern agricultural products, this is why a strategic approach is required to overcome pests. With a wealth of knowledge of both existing and new crop protection techniques, strategies and technologies, Smartbug NZ helps growers secure their crops into the future.

Our services

  • Professional Crop Monitoring

    Smartbug NZ specialise in identifying and tracking pest and disease populations in horticultural crops. Equipping growers with accurate information for crop management.

  • Crop Protection

    With our monitoring service, we provide farmers with strategies and advice to overcome pest and disease crop pressures. This includes a wide knowledge of crop treatments and how to use them most effectively.

  • Integrated Pest Management

    We provide farmers with IPM products and services to overcome resistant pests and diseases. With a strong emphasis on beneficial insects controlling pest populations effectively and affordably.

Disclaimer

While we make every effort to supply you the highest quality beneficials and advice to help improve your pest management, and to reduce the need for pesticides, we cannot guarantee the outcome in every situation. Our biocontrol agents do feed readily on the species that we have specified. However, there are many variables in biological systems which include but are not limited, to accurate pest identification, plant stress, plant health, pest density, release timing, numbers of pests at release, numbers of beneficials released, monitoring accuracy, environmental conditions and history of pesticide usage that influence the outcomes. We will always do our best to help you achieve a positive outcome but we simply cannot guarantee that your problem will be solved to your satisfaction. Because every situation is unique we are constantly learning about how best to use our good bugs. We appreciate any feedback from your experience. Just like with the use of chemical pesticides, which are not a guarantee for pest control, biocontrols are a tool for crop management and are not a silver bullet. All crop outcomes and decisions lie with the grower.