About the Authors

Craig B. Phillips

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

craig.phillips@agresearch.co.nz

Affiliations Biocontrol and Biosecurity Group, AgResearch, Lincoln, New Zealand, Better Border Biosecurity research collaboration, www.b3nz.org, Aotearoa, New Zealand

Kerry Brown

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand

Chris Green

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand

Richard Toft

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Entecol Ltd, Nelson, New Zealand

Graham Walker

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Better Border Biosecurity research collaboration, www.b3nz.org, Aotearoa, New Zealand, Plant & Food Research, Auckland, New Zealand

Keith Broome

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. RT is a the Managing Director of a commercial company EntEcol Ltd (www.entecol.co.nz) which provides technical entomological services to New Zealand clients. In the eradication program, EntEcol Ltd was contracted by DOC for RT to provide services including contributing to the TAG, preparing documents, identifying specimens, helping to develop the visual lure, and evaluating P. brassicae parasitism rates. EntEcol Ltd provided support in the form of a salary for author RT, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Author RT’s commercial affiliation to EntEcol Ltd does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.