A new free-to-use insect and host plant database has been established to help both professionals and amateur in their research into native plants and ecosystems.
The development, named Plant-SyNZ (pronounced ‘plant signs’) brings together a range of information that was previously only to be found in disparate locations, according to New Zealand’s Crop & Food Research.
The database was originally established to keep track of information about leaf mining insects and gall forming insects as well as mites, but has now widened into a broad insect-plant database for the country’s plants.
The database can be searched by plant or by herbivore name and produces reports that are easily digestible.
The database can be found at www.crop.cri.nz/home/plant-synz.
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