Find-A-Pest

Find-A-Pest provides users with simple options to report any potential pests including weeds, insects, fungi, animals, aquatic or terrestrial.

Find-A-Pest is your opportunity to participate in the Ko Tātou | This Is Us movement of all New Zealanders contributing to biosecurity.

It is an easy to use app with observations made simply taking a photo.

Factsheets in the app give information about identification, habitat and damage caused by pests.

Find-A-Pest is a non-profit, collaborative project between the Ministry for Primary Industry, Department of Conservation, all Regional Councils and primary industry organisations and is based at the University of Canterbury.

When you make an observation you will quickly get help from specialists at Find-A-Pest and via the iNaturalist NZ community. If your observation is considered to be a potential biosecurity threat then it may be forwarded to Biosecurity New Zealand who will, if necessary, contact you for more information if they feel it is necessary. Comments and identifications will appear directly in your activity page along with all of the observations you have logged to date.