Yan, Juncong
Vétek, Gábor
Pal, Chandan
Zhang, Jinping
Gmati, Rania
Fan, Qing-Hai
Gunawardana, Disna N.
Burne, Allan
Anderson, Diane
Balan, Rebijith Kayattukandy
George, Sherly
Farkas, Péter
Li, Dongmei http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0509-3221
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Primary Industries (the Operational Research programme 405731)
Article History
Received: 25 August 2020
Accepted: 5 May 2021
First Online: 17 May 2021
Declarations
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: According to the Animal Welfare Act of New Zealand, insects are not defined as animals. Therefore, the collection of BMSB for this study does not require ethics approval. The collections were not on private land, no specific permits were required for sample collections. All BMSB specimens imported into New Zealand were in accordance to the Import Health Standard, Section 22 of the Biosecurity Act 1993.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declared that they have no competing interests.